The Bull Inside the Bear (ePub)

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: The Credit Market Meltdown. Chapter 1 How Has the World Changed? The Next Bull and Bear. A Valuable History Lesson. The Four Stages of a Recurring Cycle. Always a Bull Inside the Bear. The Role of the Fed. The World As We Know It. Today's World and Money Supply. Conclusion: A Changing, Consistent World. Chapter 2 Bubbles, Bursts, and Blips: A View of the Past. The 1970s: The Gold Bubble Inflates. The 1980s: Two Dips and a Blip. The 1980s in Perspective. The 1990s: An Expansion Here, a Bubble There. The 2000s and the Liquidity Bubble. Looking Ahead. The Bull Inside the Bear: The Next Bubble to Burst--and Bull to Emerge. Chapter 3 Inflation: The Factor That Is Always with Us. Inflation to the Rescue. Causes of Inflation. The Wage-Inflation Equation. Wage Pressures and Inflation. Oil Prices: The Ouch That Stings. Inflation Is Always an Issue. The 1970s: Whipping Double-Digit Inflation. The Greenspan Years. Bernanke Takes Over. The Bull Inside the Bear: Your Inflation Opportunities. Stay Alert and Nimble. Part II: What Does It All Mean for Me? Chapter 4 The Credit Cycle. An Overview of the Housing Cycle. The Four Phases of the Credit Cycle. The Pivotal Moment: A Nod to Minsky. Banking 101. Now the Deleveraging Begins. Credit Cycle Impact. Bull Inside the Bear: It's Not the End of the World. Chapter 5 The Housing Bubble: From Watch to Warning. Nearly 70 Percent Home Ownership in the United States. Nesting Instinct. The Weather Watch. A Loan for Everyone. From Watch to Warning. Slice-and-Dice Debt Packages. One Last Blast to Inflate the Bubble. A Violent Storm: The Bursting of the Bubble. The Impact on U.S. Economic Growth. The Bull Inside the Bear: Lessons from a Housing Bubble. Chapter 6 The Fed as FEMA. The Fed to the Rescue. A Short History of the Fed. The Fed Steps In. Greenspan and the Stock Market. Greenspan and Liquidity. Liquidity Flows and Flows. Bailing out Bear Stearns. The Hidden Cost of Fed as FEMA. The Bull Inside

Robert Stein is an economist, portfolio manager, and Senior Partner of Astor Asset Management, LLC, which uses a macroeconomic model to make investment decisions. Stein is also managing partner of ETFPort.com, the Web's premier location to find and research exchange-traded funds. He writes frequently about the markets, and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, and USA Today, and can be seen on CNN, CNBC, Fox News, Bloomberg Television, and ABC News.

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