The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse

James Altucher, Douglas R. Sease

• Publisher: HarperCollins e-books
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9780062085405
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Finance

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.

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Note: Page numbers in italics refer to charts and graphs.

aerospace companies, 130–31

AeroVironment(AVAV), 76–77, 87

Africa, 72

aging population, 23, 41

agriculture

and oil demand, 71, 72, 76

and water demand, 49, 53, 55, 59

AIG, 134, 140–41

airlines

and cyberterrorism, 105

and pandemics, 32, 35

Alaska, 65

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing, 97

Alpha Pro Technologies, 45, 45–46

alternative energy

back-door strategies for, 76–77, 87, 88–89

biofuels, 71

and fear about global warming, 85, 85–86

and fossil fuel crises, 76, 82–83

front-door strategies for, 88

geothermal power, 83

hydropower, 49, 82

and industrial economy, 68

nuclear power, 82–83, 87–88

solar energy, 82, 86

and subsidies, 86

tidal power, 83

wind power, 76–77, 82, 87

American Ecology (ECOL),88–89

American States Water Company(AWR), 60

Analogic (ALOG), 111–12, 113

anthrax, 35, 101–3, 115

A123 Systems (AONE), 92–93

Apophis(asteroid), 120

aquifers, 53

Arab oil embargo, 3–4

Archer Daniel Midland (ADM), 76

ArcSight (ARST), 114

Argentina, 4

Arizona, 52–53

Ashland Inc. (ASH), 57–58, 58

Asian financial crisis of 1997, 5–6

assassinations, 1–2

Asset Acceptance (AACC), 151

assets, borrowing against, 150

Astec Industries (ASTE), 148

Asteroid 2008 TC3, 117–19

asteroids, 117–32

Apophis asteroid, 120

Asteroid 2008 TC3, 117–19

back-door investing, 130–31

consequences of, 120–23

contingency plans for, 125–26

fading the fear of, 128–30

front-door strategies for, 131–32

investment implications of, 126–32

likelihood of, 123–24, 126

and media-driven fear, 128–29

Near Earth Objects (NEOs), 117–18, 120, 123–24, 128

and stages of grief, 127–28

and timing, 24

AstraZeneca, 41

ATM usage, 113, 114, 134, 142

automobiles

electric vehicles, 67, 71, 83, 84, 92, 93

and emissions technology, 89, 92

hybrid vehicles, 67, 71, 83, 90, 92–93

baby boomer population, 23, 41

back-door investing strategies

for alternative energy, 76–77, 87, 88–89

as apocalyptic investing principle, 22–23, 157–58

for asteroid strikes, 130–31

for energy efficiency, 91

for financ...