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The Road to Ruin

The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

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The Road to Ruin

By: James Rickards
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Road to Ruin, written and read by James Rickards.

'If you are curious about what the financial Götterdämmerung might look like you've certainly come to the right place' Forbes

Financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards reveals how the global elite are darkly concealing a coming catastrophe from investors, whilst protecting themselves from the fallout.

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If you want to plan for the risks ahead, you will need Rickards's cutting-edge synthesis of behavioural economics, history, and complexity theory. It's a guidebook to thinking smarter, acting faster and living with the comfort­ing knowledge that your wealth is secure.

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Fantastic content and links between historical events, effects, analytical techniques and market dynamics. A great education that I will repeat and absorb again and again for sure. Well done James, outstanding.

Fantastic

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Amazing technical insight into world economics and worlds elite - recommended read - from an insider with outstanding intelligence & experience

Must read great technical knowledge

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great book , very informative , easy to understand and well written , recommend.
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fabulous book , amazing insight

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Clear description of how we got here today by using historical events and human behaviour and the thing that draws it all together complexity theory. A must read to separate yourself from the crowd.

Clear, Illuminating and Radical Rationality

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James puts out the same message as his other books, but in more vivid detail. There are hints at an old money conspiracy, tempered with it being merely a means of wealth preservation.

Much of this books builds on James's credibility in judging an upcoming Financial Armageddon. As always timing is key and complexity theory and spontaneous collapse of a supercritical state are put forward.

Not a great deal of news here if you've followed Mr. Rickards this far, but some interesting detail and a little unremarkable financial guidance. As ever, James subtly promotes precious metal holdings at the usual level but adds to this time honoured asset classes.

Perhaps this book is itself James's way of telling us time's up, without committing. Consider also Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

James's delivery of his own material is as ever excellent.

Smart Guy. Agenda?

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