Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar!
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  • Take Prozac!!!
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Crash Profits: Make Money When Stocks Sink and Soar!
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.
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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Take Prozac!!!.......2005-11-18

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.

1 out of 5 stars Weiss is a Huckster.......2005-05-17

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.

2 out of 5 stars Misleading title, but story interesting in the beginning.......2004-05-07

The title of the book is probably the most misleading one I have come across for a while, as it has nothing to do with the books contents. The cover would have you think this is a book about how to make money and give you the strategies promised on the back cover. It isn't. It is a storyline about a CEO and some friends who get caught up in some financial tricks and end up blowing the whistle in a financial thinktank called CECAR. It is designed to be a lesson in macro and micro economics. The problem is that the story is interesting at the start, but drags on and on with the unplausible existence of the thinktank (as no-one would fund such a thing) that grows in size, profile and importance to the point where there is a meeting with the US President. Get the drift ? I read all but the last 40 or so pages. My recommendation is not to buy this unless you want a few pages of an interesting story on how financial cover-ups can work.

1 out of 5 stars Crash Profits.......2003-07-06

Truly a worthless book written by someone who has little insight into how the capital markets really work. Comments on high yield bond and guidance about which stock in your portfolio to sell demonstrated that the author is devoid to any true investment knowledge. My credentials to make the judgments: Certified Financial Planner, MBA Degree, fee based financial advisor.

1 out of 5 stars 1 star is too generous.......2003-05-05

By way of explanation, I read an excerpt from this book in a popular tout sheet and bought it merely to pad my order to get to the free shipping level. What a mistake. (The lesson here is to just pay your shipping charge and be done with it).
My own personal view of the equity markets is one of a longer term secular bear market and Iýve been trading options for a number of years so I should be sympathetic to Weissý thesis. However, all of Weissý insight in this area is summarized in 15 rules covering 4-1/2 pages. While mostly accurate, there are some glaring errors, e.g. Rules 3 and 4 advising you to avoid contracts of a certain price range. Option prices are based on the cost of the underlying shares so to avoid contracts over $500 is to limit yourself from companies with high share prices with potentially the most room to fall.
Perhaps I was expecting him to elaborate on some other bear option strategies, but all he offers is buying puts. As for directly short-selling (the only other way to benefit from ýcrashý markets) all he says is ýdonýt do itý. He fails to sufficiently describe the time decay problem with long options in his 15 rules. E.g. with respect to the interminable Japanese bear market, simply long puts may not have made you any money because of the graceful but inexorable decline punctuated with sharp rallies. You would have needed a bear-neutral strategy. The problem is that with a preponderance of contracts at a certain strike, the market makers may ride the underlying shares past the expiry so that they all close worthless.
The rest of the book recounts recent financial scandals such as the $6k shower curtain, but I found myself skipping over several chapters at a time because Iým one of those odd people who remembers what they read in the paper or saw in the news.
There were some odd chapters on real estate and moving your money to a safe bank, which suddenly struck me as the same stuff Prof. Ravi Batra was writing in the 80ýs (to wit ýThe Great Recession of the 90ýsý!). To his credit, Batra caught the ýGreat Recessioný of 1991 (as did your local evening news) but by 1992, the stuff was all nonsense.
Could anyone benefit from this book?
Those interested in the subject would probably already be in the bear camp, but the book is insufficient as an introduction to options trading so there is little practical value. And those unfamiliar with his filler material probably donýt read the newspaper, so why would they read a book?

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            That most of the world's environments are in bad shape is by now well known. They need not remain that way, insists veteran environmentalist Denis Hayes, a coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970 and now CEO of the International Earth Day Network. Many animal and plant species have been brought back from the brink of extinction since the dawning of the environmental movement, and more and more people are aware of the ecological consequences of their actions. But then, Hayes notes, more and more people are buying gas-guzzling SUVs, using energy-thirsty halogen torchieres, consuming fossil-fuel-squandering foodstuffs grown far from home out of season, and otherwise behaving as if the good times will never end. The cost of that behavior is mounting: witness the greenhouse effect, by which gases trapped in the atmosphere prevent solar heat from escaping, thereby warming the earth. "Within a few decades," Hayes warns, "you will breathe air containing twice as much CO 2 as the air your grandparents breathed unless we radically change our use of carbon fuels such as coal and fuel."

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            In The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair, Earth Day leader and renewable energy expert Denis Hayes tells us how changes in individual, local, and national energy choices can slow or even stop the dangerous build-up of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, while at the same time saving us money, helping the economy, creating new jobs, and enhancing human health. A how-to home improvement guide for the planet, the book:

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            5 out of 5 stars An ideal home, school, and community library reference........2000-06-04

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            2 out of 5 stars Not a bad book but not what I expected.......2000-05-04

            If you are looking to buy a car, buy gasoline, or own a home...maybe this book is good for you. I found that the majority of the book was only a high level overview of the environmental situation with few advice on what a person can do to make a difference. From the title, and the discription I was led to believe that I would read something that I could do in order to help, but instead the advice was only for those owning a home and a car- which I do neither (Bike power is better than owning a car anyway! :) )

            Its not an expensive book, but I personally would return it, or give it away,...I didn't really learn anything new at all- except the last chapter where the author goes into detail about the GCC -Global Climate Coalition - which I previously hadn't heard of. This was really the only new thing that I learned- not worth the (...) for 3 pages of new info.

            I am presently looking for a better environmental book which gives me ideas for little things I can do day to day in order to help the earth.

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            He starts with a brief review of the state of the environment (not great, folks!), with a focus on global warming, major national policy decisions and international efforts of the last decade. He then moves on to identify energy sources to get rid of and general technology developments that we deparately need to support for the future.

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                  ASIN: 0471326135

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                  The image of the Earth on the front cover was acquired from the GOES-8 Imager by the Laboratory for Atmosphere at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. It was taken on September 2, 1994, using two channels for the Imager to produce a "natural color" effect. The photos shown here on the back cover illustrate the four spheres of the Earth system - the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere - together with changes being produced by human activities.

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                    The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science, Study Guide
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                      Barbara W. Murck , and Brian J. Skinner
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                          Topics in the Theory of Random Noise
                          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                          • Readable intro. by an expert
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                          R. Stratonovich
                          Manufacturer: Gordon & Breach Science Pub
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                          Binding: Hardcover

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                          ASIN: 0677008007

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                          4 out of 5 stars Readable intro. by an expert.......2004-01-21

                          The first volume of this two volume set provides a first rate, readable and fairly complete introduction to stochastic processes by one of the main experts in the field. Notable, however, is that 'Stratonovich calculus' is not presented, which is just as well because Ito calculus is used nearly universally in finance theory now. Implicit conditions for an approach to equilibrium are presented via eigenfunction expansions, but the reader should take care to notice that when the spectrum becomes continuous then there is no stationary limit, in spite of the fact that the stationary distribution still appears in the expansion with vanishing eigenvalue. Nonstationary processes are discussed later in the text, but the reader should pay attention that the integrals (4.67) required for the existence of the spectral density (4.66) do not exist (are infinite) whenever the process is nonstationary, which includes most cases of practical interest (for a Wiener process, e.g.). I emphasize this because financial math texts often toss bones to the idea of 'equilibrium conditions' and then discuss processes that are only nonstationary with no stationary limit (the Osborne-Black-Scholes lognormal model, e.g.).

                          This book is highly recommended for physics and engineering students, as well as for students of economics and finance.

                          Note added in 2/2007: this is nearly the only text out there that distinguishes stationary from nonstationary increments. That topic is, in a nutshell, by far the most important idea for analyzing data correctly and for classifying stochastic proceses theoretically. I've looked at more 'modern' books like Risken and Gardiner and am left cold: I refer to Stratonovich and Wax (the Wang-Uhlenbeck paper) extremely often, they're my bibles, I also find Genedenko to be very helpful. I should have given this text 5 stars!
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                                Bruce's Loose Tooth - Fun with a Moose and a Goose
                                Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
                                • Bruce the Moose
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                                Eileen Landay
                                Manufacturer: Hallmark
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                                Binding: Hardcover
                                ASIN: B000CRMSV0

                                Product Description

                                Children's action book.

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                                5 out of 5 stars Bruce the Moose.......2007-08-17

                                My mother bought this book over 30 years ago for my children when they were just beginning to lose their baby teeth. It is such a fun book and they both just loved it. I saved it and now my daughter has it for her two children who are enjoying it as they are just now beginning to lose their baby teeth.
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                                  Landy Eileen
                                  Manufacturer: Hallmark
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                                  Binding: Hardcover
                                  ASIN: B000JLVOQ4
                                  Moose, Bruce, and the goose
                                  Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                                  • A wonderful book..
                                  • This book is a classic
                                  • A great coming of age story.
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                                  Robert Scott McKinnon
                                  Manufacturer: Bobbs-Merrill
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                                  5 out of 5 stars A wonderful book.........1999-03-10

                                  This book is for children of all ages..parents who are children and grandparents who are also children. If you are not a resident of Montana, take the trip to the "BIG SKY COUNTRY", travel the roads and see where the story began and where it finished. It will be worth you time.

                                  5 out of 5 stars This book is a classic.......1998-07-18

                                  A story of a teenager growing up in Great Falls Montana who comes across an abandoned greyhound and his companion cagey male Canadian Goose. The story is hilarious, especially at the end where the dog catches the rabbit at the racetrack, and rips it to shreds (during a race) and the goose manages to create chaos with the other dogs. The greyhound inspires the teenager to train hard as a track star. I enjoyed the book immensely.

                                  4 out of 5 stars A great coming of age story........1998-06-30

                                  I first read this book about 20 years ago. I recently found it and re-read it. I'm keeping it in my sons room for when he's old enough to read. It's a great story that teaches right from wrong, good versus evil, and about life and death. It does contain a couple hunting sequences.

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