The Sale of a Lifetime

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bubbles: Why We Never See Them, 1

Part I How to identify a Bubble

• Chapter 1 How to Identify a Bubble: Guiding Principle #1, 13

• Chapter 2 How to Identify a Bubble: Guiding Principle #2, 25

• Chapter 3 How to Identify a Bubble: Guiding Principle #3, 33

• Chapter 4 How to Identify a Bubble: Guiding Principle #4, 41

• Chapter 5 How to Identify a Bubble: Guiding Principles #5, #6, and #7, 48

Part II A Brief (But Thorough) History of Bubbles

• Chapter 6 Lessons from History, 65

• Chapter 7 Bubbling America, 73

• Chapter 8 Bubbling into the '90s and Beyond, 83

Part III Our Power to Predict

• Chapter 9 How to Predict When Bubbles Will Crash, 101

• Chapter 10 The Geopolitical Cycle: When It's Bad … It's Horrid, 120

• Chapter 11 Booms, Busts, and the Power of Innovation, 133

• Chapter 12 Evidence of the B.S. Recovery, 143

• Chapter 13 How Bursting Bubbles Make Investors Rich … and You Can Be One of Them, 157

Part IV The Greatest Bubble and Reset of Our Lifetime

• Chapter 14 The Single Greatest Economic Force the World Has Ever Seen, 175

• Chapter 15 The Greatest Debt and Financial Bubble in History, 186

• Chapter 16 Total U.S. Debt Is at Crushing Heights, 205

• Chapter 17 The Great China Bubble, 225

• Chapter 18 China's Unprecedented Real Estate Bubble, 234

• Chapter 19 Why and When the Global Debt and Financial Asset Bubble Will Burst, 261

• Chapter 20 Timing and the Finer Details, 278

Part V Profiting from the Sale of a Lifetime

• Chapter 21 Profiting in Investments, 287

• Chapter 22 Profiting in Business, 309

• Chapter 23 Profiting in Real Estate, 314

• Chapter 24 Profiting in Emerging Markets, 331

A Final Word 341

Appendix: Cycles Discussed in This Book, 343

Acknowledgments, 345

How to Survive (and Thrive) the Great Gold Bust Ahead, 347

The Unpublished Bonus Chapter from The Sale of a Lifetime, 349