David Wiedemer & Robert A. Wiedemer 
America’s Bubble Economy 
Profit When It Pops

America’s Bubble Economy is the first book to focus on several simultaneous financial bubbles that are interacting to temporarily boost–and ultimately threaten–the United States and world economies. Filled with expert analysis and straight talk, this book will show you how to turn the coming economic transformation into a once-in-a-lifetime wealth-building opportunity.

Table of Content

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii

INTRODUCTION xi

Part One America’s Bubble Economy

Chapter 1: Executive Summary 3

Chapter 2: Bubble Blind 37

Chapter 3: Bubblequake 67

Chapter 4: What!? You Mean We’re Not King of the World!? 105

Part Two Profit When It Pops with Alternative Investments

Chapter 5: Cashing in on Chaos 133

Chapter 6: Gold for People Who Hate Gold by Eric Janszen 181

Chapter 7: Survive and Thrive 199

Part Three The Really Big ‘Big Picture’

Chapter 8: The View from 30, 000 Feet 217

INDEX 255

About the author

DAVID WIEDEMER, PhD, is a groundbreaking evolutionaryeconomist who created the rigorous economic analysis on which thisbook is based. He received a PhD in economics from the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Wiedemer has held senior managementpositions with several Washington, DC-area high technologycompanies and holds thirteen domestic and international patents oninformation technology.

ROBERT A. WIEDEMER, brings to the team the real-worldbusiness knowledge and investment understanding that comes fromfounding a NASDAQ-listed information services company. He iscurrently President of a business valuation firm that is theprimary business valuation advisor for the U.S. Small BusinessAdministration’s Small Business Investment Company division (thelargest fund of venture capital funds in the world).

CINDY SPITZER is an award-winning writer who hascontributed to the Washington Post, Los AngelesTimes, Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, and many otherpublications and books, including the original Chicken Soup for theSoul.

ERIC JANSZEN is one of the nation’s leading financialbubble experts, having written extensively on the Internet bubbleand developed the popular Web site, iTulip.com, which has beenpraised by the New York Times, BusinessWeek, National Public Radio, and CNBC. He has also been CEO of two venture-backed companies andmanaging director of Osborn Capital from 1998 to 2001. On hisiTulip Web site, he called the top of the dot com bubble in March2000 and recommended moving from cash to gold in 2001 when goldbottomed.