The Road to Ruin
The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis
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James Rickards
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James Rickards
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook of The Road to Ruin, written and read by James Rickards.
The best-selling author of The Death of Money on how investors can prepare for the next financial panic - and why it's coming sooner than you think.
The global economy has made what seems like an incredible comeback after the financial crisis of 2008. Yet this comeback is artificial. Central banks have propped up markets by keeping interest rates low and the supply of money free-flowing. They won't bail us out again next time. And there will be a next time...soon.
In The Road to Ruin, best-selling author James Rickards identifies how governments around the world are secretly preparing an alternative strategy for the next big crisis: a lockdown. Instead of printing money to reliquify markets and prop up assets, governments are preparing to close banks, shut down exchanges and order powerful asset managers not to sell. They're putting provisions in place that will allow them to do so legally. What's more, the global elite has already started making their own preparations, including hoarding cash and hard assets.
When the next one comes, it will be the average investor who suffers most - unless he or she heeds Rickards' warning and prepares accordingly.
James Rickards is the best-selling author of Currency Wars and The Death of Money. He is a portfolio manager at West Shore Group and an adviser on international economics and financial threats to the Department of Defence and the US intelligence community. He served as facilitator of the first-ever financial war games conducted by the Pentagon.
©2016 James Rickards (P)2016 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about The Road to Ruin
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- Enrico Massi
- 23-04-2019
Eye Opener
I enjoyed this book a lot more than expected. Some very well researched points that lead you to question what we currently take as given. The historical context gives us some great examples of the book's rationale. Well worth a listen.
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- Justin
- 19-12-2016
Eye opening
A fantastic insight into societal decline and how to protect ones family against it. chilling.
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- Peter
- 08-03-2017
Mandatory reading
I really enjoyed this book. It's nice to know how the polical and financial elite have and continue to manipulate the small end of town (you and me). There is a reason for major political change. it is long overdue. Brace yourselves for the crash of 2018-25
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- Mark
- 03-06-2017
Excellent and timely account of systemic risk
Very interesting and topical approach to the assessment of risk in a more complex and interconnected global financial system.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-02-2023
A fascinating book!
The audio reading helps with my business Lifestye: I can listen to it while driving, walking or cleaning my house etc.
The book completely opens my eyes to the financial world which is very intriguing. Worth a read/listen.
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- john
- 30-01-2017
Expert on the economy
Extremely knowledgable author that reinforces his views with history and science.
His views differ slightly from books by other authors I have read and I welcomed his view and history and science regarding the economy. I highly recommend this audiobook as an easy way to listen to a book that would take me a few days to read.
It's also great to hearing the voice of the author as you progress through the chapters.
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- Maria Rivera
- 26-09-2024
Very academic I went into a coma listening to it
The information is very academic it’s a book for professionals I couldn’t finish it or get the message. He needs to get an editor like Kiyosaki and Maloney so a normal person can get the message
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- 087
- 04-04-2017
Worth a read/listen
Was good to get an different view and perspective of what caused the GFC and other financial crisis. Not sure whether I agree that a crisis cannot be forseen because there were people that predicted the crisis, and even tbough the author says there will be another crisis, how does he know for sure if he mentions on several occasions that the previous crisis could not have been predicted? Quite technical in places and did go off on a tangent several times that I did not think were relevant but overall a good book.
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- Simon Sproull
- 13-11-2022
Interesting but dry
Interesting but dry. The narrator sounds like the world has ended already + mono toned = a long slow chew..
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