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Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes

34 reviews
Michael J. Panzner

Kaplan Business, 2007

Credit Default swaps make up the fastest growing segment of the $415 trillion derivatives market
1. Hedge funds are structured around a performance-based compensation system. Hedge fund advisors are paid an incentive fee based on how well they do. Hedge fund advisors get a 20 percent cut above a preset benchmark, in addition to a 2 percent fee, of the total funds under management. Many hedge funds have become comfortable using large amounts of debt to boot returns. Many on Wall Street switch ...

New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle, The: An Insider's Guide to Successful Investing in a Changing World

11 reviews

Prentice Hall, 2007

A very good read
The most appealing aspect of this book is the thesis itself -- the investment world is changing. This is the first book I've read that effectively addresses many of the cause-and-effect relationships taken place in today's stock global market. I thoroughly enjoyed the derivatives, trading like commodities and the global factors chapters. Overall, I found this book to be a very good read.

When Giants Fall: An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era
Michael J. Panzner

Wiley, 2009

In When Giants Fall, Panzner makes his case for the turbulent economic changes that will be occurring over the next few years and examines the resulting economic opportunities. According to Panzner, the economic changes will be widespread. Businesses will struggle amid wars, shortages, logistical disruptions, and a breakdown of the established monetary order. Individuals will be forced to rethink livelihoods, lifestyles, living arrangements, ...