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Books That Predicted Financial Armageddon
Of The Last 40 Years You May Have Missed
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Run For the Hills
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As
world leaders meet to help save the financial system this
weekend, we discover that this financial crisis has been
predicted over the last forty years by many many experts,
all of whom were thought to be kooky or just plain idiots
at the time. Turns out they were all completely right, just
got the timing wrong.
Here
are our favorite 'we're all going to die' books which we
laughed at at the time but now wished we had read.
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Think
Your Money's Safe In The Banks? Think Again by Magnus
Mega-Manson Released in 1998 to cash in on the
upcoming year 2000 concerns, Professor Mega-Manson
discusses how banks will 'collapse like dominoes'
after the date change to the year 2000.
Book
withdrawn and pulped in 2000. Now widely regarded
as prescient, although 8 years too early.
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Banker
Sunset by Paddy Smith Released in 2004, this book
predicted a stock market crash and general 'bank bedlam'
in 2006. It was wrong in all but one of its main claims,
including: Plastic will be the new store of value
over gold, the oil price will hit $3000 a barrel and
sun spots will cause the oceans of the world to boil.
The
book correctly predicted, however, that it was George
W Bush's policies that were to blame for the financial
crisis.
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George
Bush Will Destroy The Economy Let Me Show You How by
Mary Jones Brought out in time for the 2004 election,
Mary Jones predicted that financial market bedlam will
engulf the world in the run up to the 2008 election.
She predicted that banks would fail and the prospect
of financial Armageddon would occur due to Bush's lasseiz
faire economic policies. Widely dismissed as scaremongering
by the few Republicans who lowered themselves to comment
on the book at the time, she has since proved to have
been completely right about everything so far. |
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Cash
In All Your Savings And Put It Under Your Bed Before
It's Too Late by Jimmy Gerald First published in
1974 and then re released every two years since. The
2006 edition was published exclusively on the Internet
and is now regarded as one of the most profound predictions
of the current crisis by those too young to know better. |
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The
Economic Meltdown Joke Book by Bob Bennysmith
One hundred and fifty jokes about the economic crisis
in an innovative refrigerator magnate format.
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