Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, The

In The Wall Street Journal Guide to Investing in the Apocalypse, authors James Altucher and Douglas R. Sease provide investors with provocative and essential guidance that will enable them to take advantage of the lucrative investment opportunities that inevitably will arise when disaster strikes. The only book of its kind currently on the market, this indispensible handbook will help savvy investors make money by seeing opportunity where others see only peril.

This guide to opportunistic investing reveals how to prepare your finances not just to survive-but to prosper:

• Event-Based Investing: Learn to master the authors' core methodology by analyzing the financial impact of historical cataclysms-from presidential assassinations to global pandemics.
• Fade the Fear: Discover the #1 principle for staying calm and thinking rationally when professional traders and ordinary investors lose their nerve and desperately seek safety.
• Apocalyptic Scenarios: Explore detailed financial breakdowns of how to find opportunities in pandemics, water shortages, peak oil, terrorism, and even the end of capitalism.
• Actionable Advice: Get specific guidance on "back-door" and "front-door" plays, from investing in large, stable companies to identifying speculative firms focused on a single crisis.