Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar! by Martin D. Weiss

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Smart investing strategies from bestselling author and America's consumer advocate for financial safety
Filled with against-the-grain attitude and seasoned market wisdom, Crash Profits explains not only how to survive, but how to make money before, during, and after a crash. Using real examples fresh from the financial pages, Weiss delineates the full range of risks facing the average American. He shows readers how to see through the lies that Wall Street tells and how to find safer alternatives to stock investing, as well as what to sell, how to sell, and when to sell (and when not to sell). Here's the unvarnished truth about investing today, coupled with the strategies every American can use to turn windfall profits while others are losing their shirts.
Martin D. Weiss, PhD (Palm Beach, FL), is Chairman of Weiss Research in Palm Beach, Florida. His previous book, The Ultimate Safe Money Guide (0-471-15202-1), was a Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and New York Times business bestseller
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Amazon Sales Rank: #385641 in Books
Published on: 2003-01-24
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
368 pages
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A timely and comprehensive guide offering prescriptive measures anyone can take to protect their investments. Includes ten safe money strategies that anyone can use and shows readers how to employ these strategies to make new investments or as a way to protect existing investments.

From the Inside Flap
Secrets To Safely Growing Richer In Troubled Times-From New York Times Business Bestselling Author Martin D. Weiss, PhD

In Crash Profits, Dr. Weiss weaves a compelling story of Wall Street's deceit, crimes, and blunders that gave birth to today's treacherous investing environment. His story then crosses into the future, painting a vivid and alarming picture of the potential damage these misdeeds and mistakes could continue to cause for your stock, bond, and real estate investments in the months ahead. Best of all, Dr. Weiss gives you easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions to make PROFITS-both while the market is falling and when it recovers.

With against-the-grain attitude, seasoned market wisdom, and a fast-reading narrative style, Crash Profits outlines TEN practical strategies that will help you secure a bright financial future regardless of your age or financial situation. Using real examples fresh from today's latest events, this invaluable guide provides a practical plan to protect you from losses and get you started immediately on a fast track to recovery and profits. With Crash Profits you will . . .
Never get crushed by falling stock prices again
Protect the value of your home and real estate
Win while everyone else is losing

From the Back Cover
If continuing corporate collapses, Wall Street lies, and economic uncertainties have left you wondering whom to trust and what to do with your hard-earned money, the time to take action is now. Immediately stop any losses, get on a fast track to recovery, and potentially make more money in the next few years than most investors made in the 1990s.

Author Martin Weiss has built a national reputation as a fiercely independent critic of Wall Street practices and as the one advisor showing hundreds of thousands of investors how to make solid profits even while most others are losing their shirts. His previous bestseller, The Ultimate Safe Money Guide, gave readers the know-how to invest wisely and cautiously. Now, in Crash Profits, Weiss arms you with the tools and techniques to profit both while the market is falling and when the market recovers.

Crash Profits gives you . . .
The proven methods to profit from a stock market crash
Seven practical strategies for building wealth in any environment
Fifty stocks you should sell immediately-plus advice on how to sell
Six steps to take right away to protect the value of your home and real estate
More than seventy-five safe alternatives for your money, so you can sleep nights
Practical ways to protect your job, reduce debt, and save more
Specific instructions to turn economic disasters into great opportunities for profit

The message of Crash Profits is original, powerful, and comprehensive. Pick up this book and learn how to win in the market and the economy while nearly everyone else is losing.
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The title says it all
Given the way the economy is going, this book is a must read. There is a possibility that there will be a stock market crash in the near future: given the unfolding of the subprime mortgage crisis and untold numbers of foreclosures; banks that dabbled in hedge funds and subprime mortgages beginning to feel the pinch; the dollar spiralling downward; and the price of oil skyrocketing. Somewhere in all of this, one gets a distinct feeling of instability, and that is where Weiss's book comes in.

His knowledge of the investing environment is refreshing and at the same time disturbing. He equips the average investor with knowledge that will help him/her in the coming difficult times. This is not a light read, yet the way he weaves story lines through the book, it places the reader comfortably into the investing environment. He gives worst-case scenarios and asks hard questions that makes the reader think. He also reveals astute insight and provides solutions to problems that help the reader feel equipped to tackle the upcoming turmoil in our economy.

The most valuable parts of the book (I think) are
where he mentions that he rates bank and brokerage firms and includes the websites. I felt as if I was reading the consumer report for banks! We actually visited a library and looked up Weiss's bank ratings books there. They rate banks on a quarterly basis, and include a thorough list of banks in every state, their rating and safety (some banks even get A+). We checked out the banks with the higher ratings in our state.

This book provides peace of mind to the average investor trying to save and invest for the future when the economy looks dismally bleak.

Take Prozac!!!
Go hide in a cave, put all your money in US government bills, bonds, and hord gold and wait for the financial nuclear winter to clear up. There..., now you don't need to buy this book.
This book originally came out at about March 2003, at the end of the recent bear market, and was titled "Crash Profits..." at that time.
The whole financial world did not end and the book was retitled to "Investing Without Fear...." so that more copies can be sold.
Weiss is like a broken clock, always predicting that one thing or another is about to crash. He has been wrong so often. Even a broken clock is right twice in any given 24 hour period.

Weiss is a Huckster
This arrogant self-promoter acts like he's right and everyone else is wrong. He's be justified in acting that way if he were right. But he's wrong at least as often. He tries to scare people into buying his books, his newsletter, and (worst of all) his high-priced "trading services". He called for a real estate crash in 2003, a bond crash in 2004, and he's called for a stock crash every year for the past decade.

Encyclopedia of Money by Larry Allen

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What do whale teeth, rice, seashells, feathers, cocoa, beans, fur, salt, and tobacco have in common? They were all used as currency at some point in history. Written for general readers, the Encyclopedia of Money avoids technical jargon, complicated mathematics, and statistical analysis to make the text accessible for all readers. The Encyclopedia of Money tells the international story of currency from early barter commodities to the widely used credit cards of today. More than 300 entries, arranged in alphabetical order, describe the major innovations, experiments, triumphs, and disasters in the development of a viable medium of exchange from ancient Persia to the present.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #3481409 in Books
Published on: 1999-09-01
Number of items: 1
Binding: Library Binding
328 pages
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From School Library Journal

Gr 10 Up-This concise, alphabetically arranged resource contains more than 300 entries on topics related to currency, banking, and the economy from ancient times to today's international monetary systems. Allen also includes laws, bills, acts, theories, speeches, and biographies of people who made an impact on world economy. The language is nontechnical and the author clearly explains the terminology. Each well-documented article concludes with see-also references and a bibliography. The pages are formatted in two columns with an easily read font; captioned black-and-white photographs and reproductions appear throughout. The alphabetical table of contents serves as a chronological list of the entries. An extensive bibliography and a detailed index conclude this useful resource.-Linda Zoppa, South Bronx High School, NY

Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
Providing more than 350 entries--ranging from the Babylonian grain and silver standard to the monetary reforms enacted by Boris Yeltsin--this work portrays the common characteristics shared by various types of money and monetary systems. Readers looking for in-depth writing laden with financial formulas will find this source lacking. Instead, Allen, an economics professor and author of The ABC-CLIO World History Companion to Capitalism, has created an excellent reference source for the general reader. Alphabetically arranged and written in a clear, accessible fashion, entries cover the many forms that money has assumed throughout history (for instance, large stone wheels called fei serve as currency on the island of Yap), the history of more common coins and currencies, and events that have shaped world attitudes toward money. The book, which includes numerous cross references, a useful index, and a brief bibliography at the end of each entry, will be a preferred starting point for librarians seeking to address general reference questions. An excellent addition to all business and economics collections.
-Richard Paustenbaugh, Oklahoma State Univ. Lib., Stillwater
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

52 Simple Ways to Manage Your Money : A Weekly Journal & Workbook to Help You Take Real Control of Your Money by Judith A. Martindale

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Take the fear out of managing your money!

Finally, a book that reveals easy-to-use methods for evalutating and controlling your finances! Make financial control painless. Through a better understanding of your feelings and attitudes toward money, you can gain financial freedom. Learn how your feelings about money can prevent you from reaching your goals.

Each two-part chapter describes an investment or common financial problem. After providing tips and techniques for success, the book invites you to explore whatever is preventing you from moving ahead.

Chapters include tips on how to raise your consciousness about money, goal setting and budgeting, and guidance when selecting a financial advisor or buying life insurance. 52 Simple Ways to Manage Your Money is a practical, systematic workbook that motivates readers to take steps necessary to ensure a sound financial future.

You've worked hard for your money. It's time to let your money work hard for you.
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Amazon Sales Rank: #1735010 in Books
Published on: 1994-12-01
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
224 pages
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About the Author
Mary J. Moses has many years of experience in personnel administrations in public education in California, and has also been the Public Information Officer for the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education. She has written and published three newsletters over the span of seventeen years; one of which went to every educational employee in the county. She has co-authored with Judith Martindale No More Baglady Fears: A Woman's Guide to Retirement Planning, which won a national award, and 52 Simple Ways to Manage Your Money. Judith and Mary have been working together since 1982, both in team teaching of adults and writing

Mary has actively supported women's causes and was the first Affirmative Action Coordinator for Cuesta College. In addition to her collaboration with Judi Martindale, she also writes historical fiction. Her novel of 19th century England, The Mill, will soon be published under her pen name, Jane Denison. She lives and writes in Central California.

Judith Martindale, who has been named one of America's top 200 financial planners for three years in a row by Worth magazine, is the co-author of the award winning No More Baglady Fears: A Woman's Guide to Retirement Planning and 52 Simple Ways to Manage Your Money. Her financial advice has been quoted in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Investor's Business Daily, Smart Money, and Worth, along with various other newspapers and magazines throughout the country. Martindale was the weekly financial commentator on CBS-affiliate KCOY-TV Evening News for four years, and hosted her own radio show, San Luis Success Story. She is frequently invited as a guest speaker for business, professional and non-profit organizations. Her office is located in San Luis Obispo; however, she works with clients throughout the country. She is the founder and president of Financial Planning University, a virtual university that provides consumer education teleclasses and advanced training for financial advisors. Ms. Martindale received her M.Ed. at Miami (of Ohio). She is a Certified Financial Planner and Enrolled Agent. She is a member of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA) and the National association of Tax Preparers. Judi is married, and lives in Central California.
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The Ultimate Guide for CLueless Females
I have always been intimidated by the mere idea of investment planning, but this book empowered me to take control of my own future. With easy to understand tables and step by step instructions, the authors have given us a useable plan of action. Thank you Mary & Judith!