Economic Warfare (ePub)

Foreword by Marc Rowan xiii Foreword by Herman Cain xvii Prologue xxiii Preface xxv Acknowledgments xxix Introduction xxxiii Prelude xxxix Chapter 1 The War against the Rich 1 Just Who Am I? 3 The Richest Man I Know 4 Why You Are Not Rich 6 Who Are the Rich and Why Should You Care about Them? 9 The Millionaire down the Street 11 The Socialist Fallacy 14 Can We Separate Economics and Politics? 16 Notes 18 Chapter 2 Report from the Battlefield 19 An Inside Job 21 Running the Red Lights 24 The Joker of Gotham City 25 A Crisis of Consciousness 30 Notes 32 Chapter 3 The Seeds of Our Destruction 35 ". . . In Order to Form a More Perfect Union . . ." 37 The Man Who Would Be King 38 The Hamilton Legacy 44 Bringing Hamilton's Monster to Life 47 Springtime for the Progressives 48 And What about the Fed? 52 Notes 53 Chapter 4 The Face of the Enemy 55 Who Are the Progressives 58 Hubris by Any Other Name 61 The Bankers 65 Politics as Usual 68 Outside Influences 72 Notes 75 Chapter 5 Warfare, Not Terrorism 77 The Return of Civil Disobedience 84 Is Free-Market Capitalism Dead? 92 Notes 95 Chapter 6 Battle Plans 97 What Should America's Global Role Be? 99 My General Philosophy for Creating "Wealth" 100 The Specifi cs of the Wealth Creation Process 102 Risks, Rewards, and Opportunities 107 Basic Tenets of My Investment and Wealth Creation Philosophy 109 The Future of Commodities 111 How to Best Protect Your Assets in the Turbulent Times Ahead 113 Invest in Yourself 116 Note 117 Chapter 7 Strategic Goals 119 About the Private Equity Business Today 120 The Five Myths of Private Equity 124 My Personal View on the Biggest Challenges in the Private Equity Industry Today 127 Which Industries Are Particularly Interesting for "Distressed Investing"? 129 What Sectors of the Private Equity Markets Are We Focusing on Today? 130 Private Equity Deal Killers 133 How Do You Turn Billion-Dollar Ideas into Billion-Dollar Businesses? 138 Chapter 8 Tactical Maneuvers 141 Real Estate 142 Alternative

ZIAD K. ABDELNOUR is President and CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a private equity family office that focuses on originating, structuring, and acting as an equity investor in management-led buyouts, strategic minority equity investments, equity private placements, consolidations, buildups, and growth capital financings. Since 1985, Mr. Abdelnour has been involved in over 125 transactions, worth in aggregate over ten billion dollars, in the investment banking, high-yield bond, and distressed debt markets and has been widely recognized for playing an integral role in those three key market sectors. Mr. Abdelnour also serves on the board of TMax Capital, on the advisory board of DPG Investments, and FlatWorld Capital. Abdelnour holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in economics, summa cum laude, from the American University of Beirut and is a speaker on private equity and venture capital topics at industry conferences nationwide.

WESLEY A. WHITTAKER has been writing professionally for thirty-five years, producing business proposals, white papers, and research reports. He was in the 1977 National Collegiate Poets Anthology and wrote a satirical column for a monthly magazine in Atlanta in the mid-1980s. On the creative side, Whittaker has written two plays, two screenplays, and is completing work on his first novel. This is his first nonfiction book.

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