How to Prepare for the Coming Depression: A Workbook for Managing Your Money and Your Life during Economic Hard Times

All of the financial safety nets that this country has woven now have become part of the problem, not the solution. Today, the safety net that was created over the last forty years reaches up & helps unbalance the very system that it was designed to support, destabilizing instead of stabilizing the economy. Whether those financial dominoes will start to fall - & when - is hard to predict, but their very existence should make us thoughtfully reflect how we would manage our finances & our personal affairs during hard economic times. That is the unique value of this book. There are better analyses of America's economic plight, but this book helps readers think through how they can survive a depression, both financially & emotionally. It is a very humane & caring book, anticipating not only the financial shocks but also the psychological & social shocks. The author dedicates the book "to the strength & love within us all," & that is what he forces us to explore. Friedman tells us how to put our financial house in the best order possible, & how to put our lifestyles in order. How do we make the "inner preparation" that would be necessary to withstand an economic shock? How do we prepare our family? This book answers not only questions we have - but ones we have never thought of.Friedman, Mark is the author of 'How to Prepare for the Coming Depression: A Workbook for Managing Your Money and Your Life during Economic Hard Times', published 1991 under ISBN 9780945934035 and ISBN 0945934033.