The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts, Recession, and Depression

With home values still sinking, unemployment still high and states across the country announcing major cutbacks, a personal roadmap to avoid the financial landmines and find prudent alternatives is now more indispensible than ever.

Three-time bestselling author Martin D. Weiss provides that roadmap in The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts, Recession, and Depression (Wiley, February 2011, 978-1-118-01134-8, $27.95).

In this extensively updated and expanded edition of his 2009 New York Times bestseller, Weiss offers the same brand of rigorous analysis and spot-on advice with which he’s served his 500,000 subscribers and readers so well for so many years. Plus, as the founder of Weiss Ratings, well known for its fiercely independent bank and insurance company ratings, Weiss shows readers how to find the best safe havens even in the most dangerous of times.

In a plain-English, fast-flowing style, he gives readers

• An insightful, up-to-the-minute analysis of the ongoing debt crisis, the government’s massive attempts to stimulate a recovery, and the chain reaction of consequences that could unfold;

• Clear guidance on how to avoid the scams and self-serving deceptions that many Wall Street brokers, bankers, and established ratings agencies employ to hide the true risks of investments;

• Objective, conflict-free ratings and other practical tools to help average Americans immunize their 401(k), buy the safest insurance, and find the truly strong banks that can weather any storm; plus

• Reasonable, easy-to-use strategies to safeguard their home from the ravages of price declines, and even transform the real estate crisis into an unusual profit opportunity

The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts, Recession, and Depression is a must-have for anyone wishing to protect, save, and grow wealth in difficult economic times.