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Brazil is the new America : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world
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Title
Brazil is the new America : how Brazil offers upward mobility in a collapsing world / James Dale Davidson.
ISBN
9781118235560
1118235568
9781118221754
1118221753
9781118260418
1118260414
9781282134454
1282134450
9781617036552
9781118006634
1118006631
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012.
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1 online resource
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Includes index.
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Summary
Look to Brazil for safe, stable investments As the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In Brazil is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World, James D. Davidson shows that the current financial situation in Brazil is a haven for those looking to make money in a world in turmoil. With a population just 62 percent the size of that of the US, Brazil has added 15,023,63.
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O'Reilly Safari. OCLC KB.
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Print version: Davidson, James Dale. Brazil is the new America. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2012
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Brazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The World in 2050; A Preview of the Future; A Decrease in Productive Capacity; Squandering Prosperity; Chapter 2: The Original America Is the New Brazil; The Country of the Future; The Origins of America; The Mythic Brazil; A Difficult Dream to Realize; Can America's Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil?; Chapter 3: How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World; The Impact of Topography; Yesterday's Limitations as Today's Strengths.
Three Radical ChangesPredatory Government; Growth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt; Energy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies; Chapter 4: Prosperity and Energy Density: The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies; Denser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity; Coal and Adam Smith; Going Forward or Backward?; The Phases of Extracting Energy; Phase One: An Abundance of Wood; Phase Two: An Abundance of Coal; Phase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry; The Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I; Peak Oil and Declining Money.
Declining Energy and Systemic CollapseThe Real Symptoms of Peak Oil; The Competition for Prosperity; Expensive Oil Remains; A 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?; The SS Great Britain Sails Again; Yes! We Have No Bananas
Chapter 5: Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age; The Dynamics of Weather; Not Wrong, but Early; Waiting for Our Malthusian Moment; The Next Little Ice Age; The Dog That Did Not Bark
Putting Two and Two Together; A New Maunder Minimum; Dearth, Insanity, and Revolution.
Chapter 6: Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the EconomyHow Debtism Changed the World; Debtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You; The U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush; Worse than the Great Depression; The Collapse of the Boom; Chapter 7: ""Rome"" Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy; Slip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency; The Destruction of the Middle Class; Pre-Industrial Growth Rates; Are You Ready for Taxes to Double?
Welcome to the Second Decline and Fall of ""Rome""The New Berlin Wall; Americans as the New Illegal Emigrants; Chapter 8: The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil's Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World; You Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship; Stopping Runaway Spending; Important Lessons from Hyperinflation; Minimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen; U.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure; The Political Roots of the Economic Crisis; How Brazilians Became the New Scots; Crash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style.
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