Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, 184
joint life annuities, 175
Jones, Alfred Winslow, 182
Jordan (country), 2–3
Junkans, Dean, 204–6, 216–17
K
Kahle, Kathleen M., 225
Kanjorski, Paul, 16, 88, 167–68
Kass, Doug, 78
Keating Center at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, 217–18
Kedar, Sharon, 204
Kellermann, Tom, 79
Keynes, John Maynard, 95, 100–1, 104, 123
KGB, 19, 33
Kilburg, Jeff, 86
King Croesus, 98
King, Mervyn, 35
Kish, Daniel, 228
Kizner, Eric, 204
KKM Financial, 86
Koning, John Paul, 132
Kotlikoff, Laurence J., 29
Kozmo.com, 135–36
Krause, Matt, 223
Kumar, Nirmalya, 63
Kuwait, 2–3
L
Lackey, Richard, 195–96
Laffer, Arthur, 26
Larson, Adrian J., 187
Larson, Mike, 36
Las Vegas, NV, 136
Latin America, 25, 58, 131–32, 211
Lauer, Dave, 84
Leduc, Sylvain, 28
Lehman Brothers, xviii–xix, 15–16, 73, 88, 160, 179, 224
Lerner, Stephen, 13, 91
Lewis, Nathan, 100
Liang, Qiao, 18
Libya, 2, 12–13
Lieberman, Joseph, 80
Liew, Jim Kyung-Soo, 184
life annuities, 174
Lloyds of London, 74
Lohan, Lindsay, 137–38
London, 1, 19–20, 73, 98, 106, 166, 199
London Business School, 63
Long-Term Capital Management, 10
Lord Monckton, 153, 161–62
Los Angeles Times, 165
Loy, James, 233
Ludwig von Mises Institute, the, 132
Luke (Evangelist), 243
M
MacDonald, Ramsay, 100
MacroMavens, 160
Mad Max, 67
Mad Money, 23, 122
Madoff, Bernie, 184
Main Street, 16, 102
Malachi (prophet), 242
Malaysia, xix–xx, 10–11
MarketWatch, 168
Marshall, Andrew “Andy,” 5
Martinage, Robert, 2
master limited partnerships, 198
Matthew (Evangelist), 240
Mayer, Christopher J., 193
Maytag, 63
McAfee, 81
McConnell, Michael J., 78
McCullough, Joan, 24
Medicaid, 31
Medicare, 31
Merrill Lynch, 16, 113, 129
Mexico, Mexicans, 105–7, 233
microloans, 192
MicroVentures, 190
Middle Ages, the, 172
Middle East, the, xviii, 10, 19, 25, 38–39, 81, 185
Miller, Judith, 199
Miller’s Collectibles Price Guide, 199
Miniter, Richard, 86–87
Mishkin, Frederic, 31
Mohamad, Mahathir, 11
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 9
Money Morning, 83–84
Moneynews.com, 96
Moody’s, 146, 179
Morgan Stanley, 31
Morocco, 3
Morris, Robert, 240
Mubarak, Hosni, 45
Mueller, Robert, 80
Mullen, Mike, 221
Mundell, Robert, 104
Munyukwi, Emmanuel, 132
Musk, Elon, 230
Muslim Brotherhood, the, 11, 45
Muslims, 2, 11, 19–20, 186
N
Napoleon, 9
Napolitano, Janet, 16
NASCAR, 189
NASDAQ, 79, 97
National Finance Committee, 227
National Geographic Channel, 224
National Intelligence Council, 6
National Security Agency (NSA), 78–79
National Security Investment Consultant Institute (NSIC Institute), 129, 217–18, 238
National Seniors Council, 59
NCREIF Timberland Index, 197
New Economic Policy, the, 104
New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI), 14, 90
Newman, Rick, 55–56
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), 78, 124
New York, 9, 11, 20, 82, 85, 108, 199, 206, 223
New York Times, 19, 82, 86, 163, 188, 225
Nikkei stock index, 136
Nixon administration, 100, 102
Nixon, Richard, 39, 100, 102–3
Noonan, Peggy, 234–35
North Korea, 3, 10, 46, 75–76, 169
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business, 135
Nusseibeh, Saker, 129
Nutting, Rex, 168
O
Obama administration, 7, 18, 25, 28, 59–60, 167, 228
Obama, Barack, 22, 28–29, 51, 78–79, 101, 143, 151–52, 227–28
Obamacare, 29, 231
O’Brien, Matthew, 66
Office 39 (North Korea), 10
Office of Net Assessment (Department of Defense), 5–6
Oklahoma, 207, 218
On My Own Two Feet, 204–5
Operation Black Summer, 18
“Operation Twist,” 143
options, 191
OpUSA cyberattack, 81
P
Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), 41, 106, 145
Paine, Thomas, 99
Pakistan, 12, 81
Panarin, Igor, 33
Panetta, Leon, 40, 80
passive investing, 123–24, 126, 128
Pathlight, 187
Paul, Ron, 96
Paulson, Henry, 15, 34
Paulson, John, 183
Pearl Harbor attacks, 9
Peking University, 25
Pentagon, the, xvii–xix, 5–7, 21, 24–25, 30, 73, 91, 220, 237
Pento, Michael, 33
Pento Portfolio Strategies, 33
People’s Liberation Army (PLA), xvii, 21, 48, 54
Perry, Rick, 223
Peterson Institute for International Economics, 35, 40
Pethokoukis, James, 111–12
“petrodollars,” 39
Pets.com, 130, 135
Phase One, 25, 44
Phase Three, xix, 25, 44
Phase Two, 25, 44
Phillips, Scott, 204
Phoenix, AZ, 136
Pickens, T. Boone, 230
PIMCO. See Pacific Investment Management Company
Poland, Polish, 60, 167
Politico, 227
Pollock, Alex, 152
Pomboy, Stephanie, 160
Poole, Bill, 23–24
Postman, The, 67
pounds (currency), xix–xx, 10, 38, 40, 43, 98, 105, 160, 186
Preobrazhenskiy, Konstantin Georgiyevich, 19
Princeton University, 234
private debt, 161, 191–92, 200
Proctor, William, 204, 210
Progress Software, 85
Project 2049 Institute, 21
Project Blitzkrieg, 81
Proverbs, 236, 242
Providence, 235–36
Pry, Peter Vincent, 74
Pufeng, Wang, 17
Putin, Vladimir, 12–13, 33, 37–38, 63, 229
Q
Qiushi, 37, 43, 53
quantitative easing (QE), 27–28, 56, 64, 102, 142, 160
Quantum Dawn 2, 8
Quebec, 74
R
Raby, Geoff, 34
Rafferty Capital Markets, 33
Rajaratnam, Raj, 184
Rampell, Catherine, 163
real estate investment trust (REIT), 193
Reichenstein, William, 179
Reid, Harry, 151
Reinhart, Carmen, 27, 66, 153
renminbi (RMB), 35, 40, 47
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p; Republicans, 5, 41, 50, 120, 151
Rhodium Group, 64
Rickards, James (“Jim”), 10, 42, 112–13, 237
Riddix, Mark, 125–26
Roberts, Paul Craig, 108–9
Rogers, Jim, 61–62, 150, 153
Rogoff, Kenneth, 27, 66, 153
Rolling Stone, 15
Roman Empire, 93, 172
Romney, Mitt, 120–21
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 100–2, 210
Rosengren, Eric, 169
Ross, Wilbur, 151
Rumsfeld, Donald, 75
rupee, the, 105
Russia, 3, 6, 12, 15, 19–20, 25, 28, 33–34, 37–38, 45–47, 52, 74, 81, 105, 115, 165, 229
S
SAC Capital, 184
San Francisco Federal Reserve, 28, 55
Sanger, David, 82
Santa Barbara, CA, 206
Saturday Evening Post, 121
Saudi Arabia, 11, 39, 43, 228–29
Saxo Bank, 61
Schiff, Peter, 42, 91, 96–97, 132–33
Schofield, Tim, 200
Schweizer, Peter, 227
Seabreeze Partners, 78
Secret Weapon, xix–xx, 3, 185, 214, 237
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 5, 83–86, 169, 220
Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), 168, 195
Seeking Alpha, 107, 127, 149
Sejna, Jan, 10
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 233
Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 13, 91
Sessions, Jeff, 50
Seven Years’ War, 9
sharia, 11–12, 186
sharia-compliant finance (SCF), 11
Sharma, Anand, 34
Shilling, Gary, 55
Shuanghui International, 63
Siegel, Jeremy, 147
Silicon Valley, 130
Simons, James, 183
SITE, 1
Skousen, Mark, 109
Smithfield, 63
Smith, Shelby, 176
Snyder, Michael T., 27, 64–65, 149
Social Security, 31, 50, 61, 120
Societe Generale, 26
Somalia, 17
Soros Fund Management, 107
Soros, George, xviii–xx, 10, 15, 48, 54–55, 58, 61, 90, 183, 185–86
South Africa, 34, 98, 105
South Korea, 75
Soviet Union, 4, 10, 210, 237
Springer, Keith, 146
Sragow, Darry, 234
Standard Chartered, 20
Standard & Poor’s, 179
Standard & Poor’s 500, 3
Stanley Gibbons, 200
State of the Union Address, 18
Stein, Jeremy, 167
stock market, the, 13, 82, 111, 127–28, 134, 183, 191, 200, 215
benefits of investing in, 118–22
bubbles of, 55, 123, 136
collapses of, 3, 72, 117
crashes of, xviii, 14, 18, 31, 50, 85, 172
declines of, xviii, 16, 44, 54, 86, 130, 149, 182
investing in , 130–33
panics concerning, 213
recoveries of, 3
rising of, 182–84, 210
sectors of, 125
trading and, 83, 87
Stout, Lynn, 185
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, 75
Subramanian, Arvind, 40
Sudan, 3, 12
Sullivan, Sean, 166
Summers, Lawrence, 186
Swanson, Rod, 234
Sweet, Ryan, 146
Switzerland, 108
Syria, 2
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), 3, 86
Systematically Important Financial Institution (SIFI), 167
T
TABB Group, 87
Taibbi, Matt, 15
Taiwan, 47
tangible assets, 116, 192, 198, 200
T-bills, 141
Telegraph, the, 20
Templeton Growth Fund, 210
Templeton Maxims, 211–12, 214
Templeton Private Client Group, the, 131
Templeton, Sir John, 128, 131, 210–12, 214, 217, 239–41
Templeton Touch, The, 204, 210
Tepper, David, 183
term-certain annuities, 174–75
Tesla, 230
Texas legislature, 223
Thakor, Manisha, 204–5, 217
“thaler,” 99
Thatcher, Margaret, 153, 161
Thief-in-Law, 81
This Time Is Different, 66
Thomas, Timothy, 52
Throw Them All Out, 227
Tillberg, Jason, 108
Tombini, Alexandre, 34
“too big to fail,” 88–89, 108, 167
Trask, Haunani-Kay, 234
Treasury bonds, 25, 39, 141
Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS), 147
Treasury notes, 141
Treasury’s War: The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, 8, 47, 221
trillion-dollar coins, 41–42
Tunisia, 2
Turkey, 35
Twitter, 3, 17, 85–86
U
UCLA School of Law, 185
United Arab Emirates, 229
University of Arizona, 225
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), 234
University of Hawaii, 234
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business. See Wharton School, the
University of Southern California, 234
Unocal, 63
Unrestricted Warfare, xvii–xix, 18, 31, 52–53
USA Today, 89, 114, 144
U.S. Cyber Command, 78, 223
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), 68
U.S. Department of Defense, xix, 5, 30, 44, 76
U.S. Department of Labor, 59–60
U.S. Department of the Treasury, 5, 25, 30, 39, 41, 43–44, 59–60, 88, 92, 129, 138, 141, 143, 147, 149, 151, 161, 167–69, 177, 218, 221
U.S. government, 2, 8, 28–30, 35, 39, 98–99, 108, 137–38, 163, 177
U.S. Leather Company, 121
U.S. News & World Report, 55
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), 6
Utah, 223
V
Vanguard Funds, 128
variable annuities, 172–77
Venezuela, 3, 12–13, 45, 229
Verdery, C. Stewart, Jr., 233
Verizon, 124
Veryser, Harry, 101
Vickers, Michael, 7
W
Waggoner, John, 144
Wallace, Charles, 147
Wall Street, 8, 15–16, 26, 71, 90, 147, 222
Wall Street Journal, the, 8, 31, 79, 140, 152
Wal-Mart, 121
warrants, 190–91
Washington, D.C., 50, 53–54, 151–152, 220–221
Washington, George, 100, 104, 235
Washington Mutual, 16, 179
Washington Times, the, 7, 30
Waterworld, 67
Wealthy Barber, The, 204
We Are Social, 85
Webvan, 135
Weekly Standard, the, 81
Weimar Germany, 27, 45
Wells Fargo Private Bank, 204
Welton Investment Corporation, 148
Wharton School, the, 147, 179
Which?, 199
Williams, Rob, 144
Winkler, Max, 153
Wissman, Stephanie Catarino, 229
Woods, Thomas, 102
Woolsey, James, 75–76, 229
World Bank, the, 34, 51, 58, 62, 79
World Economic Outlook (2007), 51
World War I, 45, 98
World War II, 4, 10, 65, 103, 207, 211, 216
X
Xiangsui, Wang, 18
Y
Y2K, 77
Yale School of Management, 182
Yemen, 2
yen, the, 33, 38
Yergin, Daniel, 103, 228
yield curves, 139–40, 143, 155
/> Yousef, Ramzi, 9
yuan, the, 20, 33–35, 37–40, 46, 48, 157
Yugoslavia, 65
Yunus, Muhammad, 192
Z
Zarate, Juan, 8, 47, 221–21, 237
Zeiler, David, 83
Zero Hedge, 154
Zhiwei, Zhou, 34
Zimbabwe, 65–66, 132, 205
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, the, 132
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