What To Do When the Economy Sucks


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Let's face it: Today's economy sucks! There's a housing crisis, a credit crisis, and an unemployment crisis. And that's just for now. But families don't need to move into refrigerator boxes and start scrounging for spare change. This book offers readers concrete, specific strategies to: prevent foreclosure create and stick to a family budget repair bad credit ratings streamline spending save for the future and more Elected leaders and economic theories come and go. But author Peter Sander shows how to maintain financial stability, no matter who's in charge.




What To Do When the Economy Sucks


Book Description

Let's face it: Today's economy sucks! There's a housing crisis, a credit crisis, and an unemployment crisis. And that's just for now. But families don't need to move into refrigerator boxes and start scrounging for spare change. This book offers readers concrete, specific strategies to: prevent foreclosure create and stick to a family budget repair bad credit ratings streamline spending save for the future and more Elected leaders and economic theories come and go. But author Peter Sander shows how to maintain financial stability, no matter who’s in charge.




Bad Economy


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Survive The Bad Economy By Learning How You Can Cut Cost And Come Out On Top! Are You Suffering Due to the Economy? Does the Current Downturn Make Stretching a Dollar Impossible? Are You Wishing You Could Get Some Relief? Get the Answers You Need to Cut Expenses and Come Through This Mess With a Minimum of Loss! Obviously, asking if you have been impacted by the current economic trend would be redundant. There isn't a person out there who hasn't been touched. In fact, if you told us you have not been affected, we'd have to assume you spent the last year on a deserted island! The only saving grace (if there is one) is that we are all I this together. Naturally everyone's situation is different, but all in all we have to survive this situation as a team. There are steps you can take to help minimize the pain. Everyone likes to save a buck. However, we've become lazy in the "instant gratification - I want it now world" that we've gotten accustomed to. The difference is that we can't afford the luxuries we've taken for granted. The problem with that mindset is that it's become such a habit that we don't really know how to change it! Where Do You Start? Learn the techniques and strategies you can apply and literally beat the economic downturn. Generate fast cash savings that you can put to work IMMEDIATELY in your personal budget and lifestyle. You've made the first step. You are admitting that you have a problem and are willing to do something about it! The next thing you need to do is learn how! Well you have to arm yourself with information and change your mind set. Luckily you are in the right place. Look, you've already overcome the first hurdle - you're here, ready and willing to make changes. Now what you need is your very own, personal "bailout plan" just like the big guys. It's pretty doggone obvious that no one else is going to help out any of us. The only thing we've gotten from our illustrious leaders is more of the same. So if we are going to survive we need to take matters into our own hands. You could get a loan to carry you over the hump. Yeah right! That's what got us into this mess in the first place isn't it? Easy money my big toe! Even if you could find someone to lend you money the interest would probably come close to the national debt! You need answers and you need them now! We've got them and you can have access to them right now! We're talking about: Introducing Your Own Bailout Guide Brand spanking new, "Surviving the Bad Economy" is just what you need to make it through these troubling times. Chock full of strategies and tips to give you an unfair advantage, it is what everyone needs to know to get through these troubling times. Take a look: Ten Best Ways to a Healthy Credit Score. This information is worth its weight in digital gold all by itself! Create a Family Budget. Even if you already have one, it's pretty obvious that it isn't working right now! How to Save on Home Maintenance. Are you sure you have really tapped into all the ways you can cut costs in your home? There are always steps that are missed. We cover them here. Communicate and Negotiate. This is the best opportunity you have to negotiate lower payments. All creditors are running scared and believe it or not, most would rather negotiate than add any more red to their bottom lines. Find out how this can help you.




Economic Dignity


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“Timely and important . . . It should be our North Star for the recovery and beyond.” —Hillary Clinton “Sperling makes a forceful case that only by speaking to matters of the spirit can liberals root their belief in economic justice in people’s deepest aspirations—in their sense of purpose and self-worth.” —The New York Times When Gene Sperling was in charge of coordinating economic policy in the Obama White House, he found himself surprised when serious people in Washington told him that the Obama focus on health care was a distraction because it was “not focused on the economy.” How, he asked, was the fear felt by millions of Americans of being one serious illness away from financial ruin not considered an economic issue? Too often, Sperling found that we measured economic success by metrics like GDP instead of whether the economy was succeeding in lifting up the sense of meaning, purpose, fulfillment, and security of people. In Economic Dignity, Sperling frames the way forward in a time of wrenching change and offers a vision of an economy whose guiding light is the promotion of dignity for all Americans.




Socialism Sucks


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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.




Austerity


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A revealing look at austerity measures that succeed—and those that don't Fiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become self-defeating. Supporters argue that budget deficits have to be tackled aggressively at all times and at all costs. Bringing needed clarity to one of today's most challenging economic issues, three leading policy experts cut through the political noise to demonstrate that there is not one type of austerity but many. Austerity assesses the relative effectiveness of tax increases and spending cuts at reducing debt, shows that austerity is not necessarily the kiss of death for political careers as is often believed, and charts a sensible approach based on data analysis rather than ideology.




How To Prosper During Bad Times


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Many people often associate economic downturn with lack or absence of opportunities. "It's simply impossible to make money much less to prosper during an economic recession or depression." This is absolutely not true. Because the truth is, economic recessions or it's uglier cousin, economic depressions, are just the perfect opportunities that anyone with vision can take advantage of to become not just rich - but filthy rich! For the record no less than America's second richest person alive, Warren Buffet whose personal fortune reached a dizzying $48 billion before he decided to give back to the society $31 billion can attest to this. Warren Buffet built his massive fortune buying businesses and properties that most people had given up as lost. To many businessmen, he is the great rescuer who bailed them out of their economic miseries. But of course Warren Buffet saw more than rescuing them out of their economic woes. If he sees no value or potential in their businesses, he sees no reason to buy them. But what exactly does he know that ordinary mortals don't usually know about economic downturns? First and foremost, economic downturns don't last. During bad times, Prophets of Doom would say the worst things about the economy. Of course things are bad. But they only remain bad to a certain point. This is because of the thing called Economic Cycle. Economic Cycles are periods in history of booms and busts. Economic cycles are the hallmarks of laissez faire system. Economic cycles behave just like the seasons. And just like the seasons, the climate always changes. And just like the seasons you can predict a downturn or an upturn. What happened just after just the turn of 20th century was a classic example of an economic boom suddenly gone bust. In the roaring 20's people thought that there was no stopping to the prosperous times. Until one day, people started dumping stocks at such a frenzy that it sent the whole world in probably the worst economic depression in history. By all means the signs of a coming collapse were present. Stocks were at all time high. In fact unreasonably high. And people were living beyond their means. The same thing happened again with the housing market in 2007. Just a couple of years ago, the sense of affluence was everywhere with home values skyrocketing. Because of the high cost of home ownership many Americans were forced to borrow beyond their means. The result was a credit crisis that sent the world reeling again in another round of recession. So the question now is if we could predict an economic downturn, could we also predict an economic upturn? The answer is yes. If you religiously watch CNBC or read CNNmoney.com, you'd find that home prices had already gone low enough to attract the buyers back. But how low it could get is the question. Prospective home buyers are still in the sidelines waiting for better bargains. The question this time is when will they decide that the price is already right enough to make them buy? The following articles will open your eyes to the realities of economic cycles and the opportunities that you can take advantage of for your personal economic growth.




Odd Jobs


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Here is a book for every curious, courageous, or desperate person who’s willing to set convention aside to earn a living in the face of an ailing economy. From fashioning balloon animals to promoting liquor brands to picking berries in Australia, this easy-to-read, entertaining book takes a candid look at over a hundred jobs that don’t require you to sit in an office eight hours a day, five days a week.




No More Work


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For centuries we've believed that work was where you learned discipline, initiative, honesty, self-reliance--in a word, character. A job was also, and not incidentally, the source of your income: if you didn't work, you didn't eat, or else you were stealing from someone. If only you worked hard, you could earn your way and maybe even make something of yourself. In recent decades, through everyday experience, these beliefs have proven spectacularly false. In this book, James Livingston explains how and why Americans still cling to work as a solution rather than a problem--why it is that both liberals and conservatives announce that "full employment" is their goal when job creation is no longer a feasible solution for any problem, moral or economic. The result is a witty, stirring denunciation of the ways we think about why we labor, exhorting us to imagine a new way of finding meaning, character, and sustenance beyond our workaday world--and showing us that we can afford to leave that world behind.




The Profit Paradox


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A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power—and how it stifles workers around the world In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are rising, so that everything from a bottle of beer to a prosthetic hip costs more. Economist Jan Eeckhout shows how this is due to a small number of companies exploiting an unbridled rise in market power—the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research and telling the stories of common workers throughout, he demonstrates how market power has suffocated the world of work, and how, without better mechanisms to ensure competition, it could lead to disastrous market corrections and political turmoil. The Profit Paradox describes how, over the past forty years, a handful of companies have reaped most of the rewards of technological advancements—acquiring rivals, securing huge profits, and creating brutally unequal outcomes for workers. Instead of passing on the benefits of better technologies to consumers through lower prices, these “superstar” companies leverage new technologies to charge even higher prices. The consequences are already immense, from unnecessarily high prices for virtually everything, to fewer startups that can compete, to rising inequality and stagnating wages for most workers, to severely limited social mobility. A provocative investigation into how market power hurts average working people, The Profit Paradox also offers concrete solutions for fixing the problem and restoring a healthy economy.