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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse: Make Money by Seeing Opportunity Where Others See Peril (Wall Street Journal Guides) Paperback – February 1, 2011

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In The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, authors James Altucher and Douglas R. Sease provide investors with provocative and essential guidance that will enable them to take advantage of the lucrative investment opportunities that inevitably will arise when disaster strikes. The only book of its kind currently on the market, this indispensible handbook will help savvy investors make money by seeing opportunity where others see only peril.

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Disasters happen every day.
Are your investments prepared?

The investor who knows how to anticipate historically significant or earth-shattering events—who is prepared to act when others are frozen with fear—will always have a substantial advantage. By closely analyzing potential global threats and the opportunities they present, The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse offers investors the key to finding a silver lining in almost any cataclysm. Even if the catastrophic does not occur, the strategies here can pay huge dividends even under more mundane circumstances.

The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse provides readers with valuable information for investment success: the ability to see opportunity where others see peril. Whether a global disaster is natural or man-made, environmental or financial, every fearsome scenario contains the seeds of profit for the investor who stays calm and thinks rather than panics and runs.

About the Author

James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, prolific writer, podcaster, standup comedian, and chess master. He has started and run more than twenty companies and is invested in over thirty. He is the author of eighteen books, including the bestsellers The Power of No and Choose Yourself. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Financial Times, Huffington Post, and TechCrunch. He also writes a popular blog and hosts a successful podcast, The James Altucher Show, that has had over 80,000,000 downloads. An eight-episode docuseries based on Choose Yourself and produced by DNA Films was released on Amazon in 2020.

Douglas R. Sease was a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal for twenty-six years. He is the author of five books on investing and tax policy and has edited or ghostwritten more than a dozen books on management, finance, government, and foreign business.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Business; Original edition (February 1, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062001329
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062001320
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.31 x 0.47 x 8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #404,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master and prolific

writer. He has started and run more than 20 companies and is currently invested in over 30.

He is the author of 18 books, including WSJ best-sellers: 'The Power of No' and 'Choose Yourself'. His latest book, "Reinvent Yourself" was #1 in the Amazon store shortly after its release.

His writing has appeared in major media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Techcrunch , The Financial Times, Yahoo Finance and others. His blog, JamesAltucher.com, has attracted more than 20 million readers since its launch in 2010.

He hosts a successful podcast, "The James Altucher Show" with guests of the caliber of Tony Robbins, Mark Cuban, Pieter Thiel, Arianna Huffington, Coolio, etc. His podcasts have had over 30 million downloads.

Join him at JamesAltucher.com or on Twitter @Jaltucher on Instagram @altucher

You can also text him questions on his personal cell phone (203) 512-2161.

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James Altucher

I review my reviewers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 23, 2011

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[...]

(go to the above link for the whole review of my reviewers but here's how it starts):

First off, on twitter, someone named Naomi Klein called my book "Gross". I looked her up on wikipedia. Turns out we have a lot in common. She wrote some books (see below picture). She also "spent much of her teenage years in shopping malls." So did I! And she has a lot more twitter followers than me.

I emailed her and asked her if she had actually read the book. She wrote back and was honest. "No," she said, "but the jacket copy is gross". Fine. I like that honesty. A lot of people judge books by their covers and then trash it to their 100,000 followers on twitter. At least she's honest about it. I'm not being bitter. I really do appreciate her honesty in her response. I would've ignored me. ...

[I then proceed to review my Amazon reviewers in the above link].

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An SC Consumer

A real disappointment

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 10, 2011

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I saw this book advertised in the Wall Street Journal and downloaded a sample. I was very impressed with what I saw in the introduction. The author promised to show how to develop effective strategies on investing in the face of calamities and disasters. He promised that he would not just recommend individual stocks, because that would cause the book to become dated quickly.

So, based on this promise, I paid my money and got the entire book. Apparently, who ever wrote the intro never really read the book. Worse yet, if the author of the book also wrote the intro, he forgot what he promised. At any rate, after promising not to just recommend individual stocks, he does just that. Worse yet, he continually recommends a small group of his favorites. There is a lot of verbiage on creating baskets of stock but no details on how to do that.

What put me over the top was his adamant defense of global warming. Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant. To create an investment strategy that discounts the possibility that global warming will not pan out is risky. To recommend an investment strategy that does not allow for the possibility that the tide will turn is irresponsible.

This book was a great disappointment to me, and I suggest you not waste your money buying it, or your time reading it. The author does not deliver serious investment strategy as he promised.

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AJL

Worth Reading

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2011

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I thought the book was interesting. It is a pretty easy read, really intended for more beginner investors so if you want to stay away complicated graphs & formulas then this would be a book you would want to read. I've always been fascinated by apocalyptic events and I help people with their finances so maybe that is why I thought this was an interesting book. If you enjoy investing then give it a read.

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donald w pecard

very good,product was of good value and the quality is also very good, if i need another i will consider this source again

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2013

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very goodvery good,product was of good value and the quality is also very good, if i need another i will consider this source again

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Patrick L Irwin

Doomesday Scenarios and possible stock winners

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 5, 2013

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Helpful information on investing under disaster conditions. While most people do not want to profit from another person's misery, money will be made addressing the aftermath and righting the situation or preventing disasters. For example the rebuilding after Sandy. This book gives you some possible companies that will benefit from changing global conditions such as global warming.

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Susan Ohnmacht

Fool me once your fault - fool me twice my fault.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 1, 2013

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I think by and large this Journal Guide was misleading and because of this I will not order any promoted items in the future from what I consider a neutral site.

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DrBob

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 1, 2015

As advertised.

Well I havent actually read the book and most probably ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 9, 2016

Well I havent actually read the book and most probably never will.
But here's the author saying he never did, too, and never will. Didnt even write it :)
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