{"product_id":"brazil-is-the-new-america-isbn-9781118006634","title":"Brazil Is the New America","description":"\u003cb\u003eLook to Brazil for safe, stable investments\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAs the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In \u003ci\u003eBrazil is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World,\u003c\/i\u003e James D. Davidson shows that the current financial situation in Brazil is a haven for those looking to make money in a world in turmoil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a population just 62 percent the size of that of the US, Brazil has added 15,023,633 jobs over the past eight years, while the US has lost millions. In a world burdened by bankrupt governments and aging populations, Brazil is solvent, with two people of working age for every dependent. In a world of \"Peak Oil\" Brazil is energy independent, with 70 billion barrels of oil, 60% of the world's unused arable land, and 15% of its fresh water. Comparatively non-leveraged—and with significant room for growth and expansion, as well as vast natural resources, Brazil is a haven of opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten by James D. Davidson, the editor\/publisher of \u003ci\u003eStrategic Investment\u003c\/i\u003e and cofounder of Agora and the media outlet, Newsmax, \u003ci\u003eBrazil is the New America details:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow the original \"America\" now embodies the brightest hope for realizing the American Dream while the \"Old America\" is headed for a dramatic decline in the standard of living\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInvestment opportunities not only for those willing to relocate, but anyone who can consider investing there\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe cost structure of employment in Brazil versus the United States\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrazil has already learned its lesson about the dangers of inflation. Cash has taken the place of credit, and high interest rate returns are now the norm.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 The World in 2050 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Preview of the Future 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Decrease in Productive Capacity 5\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSquandering Prosperity 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 The Original America Is the New Brazil 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Country of the Future 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Origins of America 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mythic Brazil 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Difficult Dream to Realize 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan America’s Destiny Be Fulfilled in Brazil? 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 How Brazil Became Endowed for Prosperity in a Collapsing World 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Impact of Topography 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYesterday’s Limitations as Today’s Strengths 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree Radical Changes 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePredatory Government\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowth Imperatives Lead to Fiat Money and Runaway Debt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEnergy Surges Alter Spatial Configurations of Economies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 Prosperity and Energy Density: The Hidden Role of BTUs in the Rise and Fall of Economies 67\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDenser Energy Equals a Rise in Prosperity 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCoal and Adam Smith 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoing Forward or Backward?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Phases of Extracting Energy 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase One: An Abundance of Wood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase Two: An Abundance of Coal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhase Three: The Original Petroleum Industry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Shift from Coal to Oil and World War I 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeak Oil and Declining Money 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeclining Energy and Systemic Collapse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Real Symptoms of Peak Oil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Competition for Prosperity 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExpensive Oil Remains\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA 665,000 Percent Increase in the Price of a BTU?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe SS Great Britain Sails Again 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Yes! We Have No Bananas”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Malthus Again: Population Pressures, Global Cooling, and the Coming Dark Age 91\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dynamics of Weather 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot Wrong, but Early 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWaiting for Our Malthusian Moment 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Next Little Ice Age 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“The Dog That Did Not Bark” 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePutting Two and Two Together 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Maunder Minimum 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDearth, Insanity, and Revolution 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 Deficit Attention Disorder: How the Perverse Logic of Debtism Promotes the Illusion of Democratic Consensus but Devastates the Economy 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Debtism Changed the World 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDebtism Helps Politicians Manipulate You 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe U.S. Budget Deficits Would Make Greece Blush 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorse than the Great Depression 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Collapse of the Boom 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 “Rome” Falls, Again: Economic Closure and Financial Repression as the United States Faces Bankruptcy 159\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlip-Sliding Down the Road to National Insolvency 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Destruction of the Middle Class\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePre-Industrial Growth Rates\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre You Ready for Taxes to Double?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWelcome to the Second Decline and Fall of “Rome” 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Berlin Wall\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmericans as the New Illegal Emigrants 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 The Sunny Side of the Leverage Cycle: How Brazil’s Legacy of Hyperinflation Prepared It to Prosper in a Post-Dollar World 175\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou Are in Steerage on a Sinking Ship 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStopping Runaway Spending 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImportant Lessons from Hyperinflation 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinimal Bank Capital Ratios: A Crisis Waiting to Happen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. Reserve Requirements: A System Failure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Political Roots of the Economic Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Brazilians Became the New Scots\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrash-Proofing the System Brazilian Style\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerica’s $104 Trillion Problem\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrazil and the Taylor Rule\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeverage and Growth 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGDP Gains Based on Income Growth 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 A Bounty of Water and Land: Brazil as History’s First Tropical Superpower 199\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrazil and Water 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSustainability\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA World of Water Shortages\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRenewable Water\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrazil Reinvents Agriculture 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Breadbasket of the World Diversification\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIrrigation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA History of Small and Large Farms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Stunning Increase\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 Reversing the Gap: Brazil as the World’s Emerging Energy Superpower 221\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Zero Sum Growth Game 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrim Prospects 226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePulling the Plug 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubmerging Economies 231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRio Is the New Houston 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeading the Way in Renewable Energy 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLet There Be Light 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeclining Power after an Energy Transition 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Demographic Turbocharge: Brazil’s Coming Decades of Miracle Growth 247\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChina Takes a Dive? 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBrazil’s Demographic Bonus 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Laboratory for New Products 257\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Real Cultural Melting Pot 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 Back to the Future: What Could Go Wrong 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs Brazil Following the United States\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToo Closely? 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeight 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEffects on Health Care 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversity Issues 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure 274\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCorruption 277\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBureaucracy 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCusto Brasil 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCredit 284\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 13 On the Outside Looking In: Making the Move toward Prosperity 289\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHealthcare\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEducation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMilitary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Plagiarize, Plagiarize, Why Not Use Your Eyes?” 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComing Soon: Financial Repression 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Unpaid Taxes” From the Empire Settlement Act to Unsettling Choices 302\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooking at BRICs 304\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUntapped Resources\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate: Brazil Stays Warm in the Little Ice Age\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eU.S. Farmers Lead the Migration to Brazil\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking the Move 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMES DALE DAVIDSON \u003c\/b\u003eis a successful entrepreneur who edits \u003ci\u003eStrategic Investment.\u003c\/i\u003e A cofounder, with Bill Bonner, of Agora Inc. and a cofounder of the media outlet Newsmax.com, Mr. Davidson is the author of five books. He defied conventional wisdom to forecast the Japanese stock market crash of 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEven before the subprime crisis of 2008, economic growth in the United States was steadily decelerating. Over the eighty-year span from 1929 to 2009, average annual GDP growth was 3.6 percent, but the ten-year growth rate was only 1.9 percent and the five-year growth rate was less than one percent. With unfunded Medicare and Social Security liabilities growing at a rate of 33 percent of GDP ($5 trillion annually), the U.S. faces the greatest solvency crisis in history. Ever shrinking incomes and an erratic stock market combine with a widening gap between spending promises and actual resources to create a perfect storm of downward mobility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs the U.S. grows more bankrupt by the day, many Americans are looking for investing opportunities abroad, but the familiar, traditional “advanced” temperate-zone economies of Europe and Asia seem just as bleak. In \u003ci\u003eBrazil Is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World,\u003c\/i\u003e acclaimed entrepreneur James Davidson presents another option, explaining how Brazil has emerged as the new destination for investment success. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the United States remains in the throes of financial crisis, Brazil has already undergone its own period of wrenching adjustment and has come out the other side all the stronger for it. Having learned its inflation lesson, Brazil is now reinstituting high-interest credit, paving the way for impressive growth prospects over the next decade, while transforming the country into an investor’s dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a population just two-thirds the size of that of the U.S., Brazil has created over 15 million jobs in the past eight years, while the U.S. lost jobs. Combining energy independence and vast natural resources, including 60 percent of the world’s unused arable land, and 25 percent of its fresh water, Brazil is the first tropical superpower, offering a whole new frontier for growth. Add in a young population, a relatively underleveraged consumer economy, and a per capita GDP that has more than doubled in the last decade, and you have a recipe for investment success. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe awakening of the long slumbering giants, China and India, will profoundly reshape the world economy, and one country is sure to benefit—Brazil. 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