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James Dale Davidson edits “Strategic Investment,” a well-regarded newsletter which predicted the Japanese Crash, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was a founder of Agora with Bill Bonner and also a founder of the media outlet, Newsmax. He founded the nonprofit National Taxpayers Union, whose 300,000-plus members work for fiscal restraint and lower taxes. He is author of five previous books, including three with Lord William Rees-Mogg, former editor of the
Times
of London:
Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits in a World Gone Mad;The Great Reckoning: Protecting Your Self in the Coming Depression
(1994); and
The Sovereign Individual.

Davidson is the chairman of Ouro do Brasil Holdings. He is a current or former director of a number of companies, including Anatolia Minerals Development, Ltd.; California Gold, Inc.; Sibcoal; Core Values Mining & Exploration; Banco Comafi, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Plasmar S.A., La Pax, Bolivia; Martinborough Vineyard, New Zealand; and the Pembroke College (Oxford) Foundation.

Index

Abortion

Abreu, Luiz

Adams, James Truslow

Additionality

African kingdoms

Agencia Nacional do Petroleo (ANP)

Agriculture

in Brazil
diversification
energy costs and
farm size
harvest losses
irrigation and
new technologies
pests and parasites
soil quality
water resources and
weather and

AIG

Alexander VI, Pope

Algeria

Allen, Karen

Allen, Robert

Alorto, Angelinus

Alston, Lee

Amazon River

America

American dream

in Brazil
economic decline and

Amerike, Richard

Amerrique Indians

Anatolia Minerals (Alacer Gold)

Annan, James

Arab countries

Arab immigrants

Arab Spring

Argentina

Aristotle

Arnold, Daniel

Asset booms

Asthma inhalers

Australia

Austrian economic theory

Bahrain

Bailouts

Banespa

Bangladesh

Bank for International Settlements

Banking system

19th century
Americans living abroad and
bad loans
bailouts
capital ratios
crises
hyperinflation and
online
regulation
reserve requirements

Bankruptcy

Barnier, Michael

Bartlett, Bruce

Basel II accords

Basel Standards

Bashkirtsev, Vladimir

Batista, Eike

Beans

Belgium

Ben Ali, Zine el-Abidine

Bernanke, Ben

Biodiesel program

Bioelectricity

Biofuels

Bloom, David H.

BNP Paribas S.A.

Borlaug, Norman

Botero, Giovanni

Bouazizi, Mohamed

Bracher, Candido

Bradesco

Brasil

Brasilia

Brazil

agriculture
American dream in
as “American” economy
banking system
biodiversity
bureaucracy in
business costs
China and
citizenship
climate
coal
coastline
colonial era
congressional funds scandal
consumer credit
corruption in
cosmetics market
crash proofing regulations
debt
demographic bonus
development pace
economic growth in
education
energy independence
energy profile
energy resources
exploration of
farm history
federal budget deficits
first flag
food exports
foreign direct investment in
GDP
growth rate
health care
housing sales
hydroelectric power
hyperinflation
independence of
infrastructure
interest rates
investment by
land grants
legendary origins of
male:female ratio
median age
middle class
mortgage debt
native populations
natural resources
navigation
obesity and weight issues
oil consumption
oil exports
oil resources
per capita income
Plano Real
population
potential arable land
racial and ethnic diversity
relative advantages of
renewable energy
road system
runaway spending
slavery in
soil quality
spatial organization
special interest groups
standard of living
sugar production
tax revenues
as test market
topography
transportation
tropical development
upward mobility in
U.S. culture and
U.S. indebtedness to
water resources
wealth disparities
women
as a young country

Brazilian (Amazonian) Shield

BRIC economies.
See also
Brazil; China; India; Russia

food rioting

Bridgewater, Duke of

Browder, Bill

Brown, Jeffrey J.

Brown, Lester R.

Browner, Carol

Bruce, George

Budweiser

Bureaucracy

Burger King Worldwide Holdings

Bush, George W.

Business costs

Bus transportation

Cabot, John

Cabral, Pedro álvares

Calcite

California

Canada

Canals

Cap and trade legislation

Capitaincies

Capital gains

Capitalism

Capital ratios

Carbon dioxide (CO
2
)

carbon trading
global warming and

Carbon emissions

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique

Caribbean

Caribe Indians

Carlyle, Thomas

Carnegie, Andrew

Carr, Matthew

Cattle

Cellulosic ethanol

Central Bank of Brazil

Chicago Climate Exchange

Chicago Climate Futures Exchange

China

abortion rates
censorship in
economic growth
education
famine in
food prices
food supply
foreign exchange
foreign investment in
gendercide
growth of
investment by
Little Ice Age
median age
oil consumption
one-child policy
peak oil production and
population
trade with Brazil
unemployment
U.S. debt and
water resources

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Christie, Peter

Churchill, Winston

Citizenship

Brazilian
U.S.

Civil War

Clean development mechanism (CDM)

Climate

development pace and
fluctuation in

Climate change.
See also
Global cooling; Global warming

carbon emissions and
regulations

Climate Exchange PLC (CLE)

Clinton, Bill

Coal

Brazil
economic growth and
peak production
United States

Coatsworth, John H.

Coelho, Duarte

Coelho, Pedro Passos

Coffee

Cohen, Jonathan

Collier, Paul

Collor de Mello, Fernando

Colonial era

Columbus, Christopher

Commodity-based money

Community Re-investment Act

Complex systems

Constantine, Stephen

Consumer credit

Consumer debt

Consumer prices

Consumption

consumer
fiat money and
government spending and

Container ships

Corbyn, Jeremy

Corbyn, Piers

Cordeiro, Pedro

Corn ethanol

Corruption

Cosmetics market

Cozumel Conference on Global Warming

Crawford, Dorothy H.

Creditanstalt

Credit contractions

Credit corrections

Credit expansion.
See also
Debtism

deficit spending and
as economic stimulus
impacts of
politics and

Credit system.
See also
Debtism

Austrian economic theory and
consumer prices and
GDP and
gold standard and

Crestana, Silvio

Curitiba, Brazil

Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 2011

Custo Brazil

Customer service

Czinkota, Michael R.

Dalio, Ray

Dalton Minimum

Dark Ages

Davies, Gavyn

Debt

Brazil
of developed nations
energy and
GDP and
U.S.

Debt ceiling

Debt democracy

Debtism

capitalism and
consumer prices and-136
consumption and
income inequality and
peak oil production and
politics and
standard of living and
stock market and
worldwide impacts of

Deficit spending.
See also
Government spending

in Brazil
economic collapse and
impacts of
water resources and

De Gaulle, Charles

Deleveraging

Delucchi, Mark A.

Del Valle, Charles

Demery, Leroy W., Jr.

DeMille, Cecil B.

Demographic bonus

De Moraes, Vinícius

Depression

Desertification

Designated Operational Entities (DOEs)

Deuteronomy

Diamonds

Diem, Ngo Dinh

Dimitrijević, Dragutin

Diocletian

Dollar

Donataries

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)

Drake, Edwin

Dúc, Thích Quáng

Dutch colonial period

Dutch West India Company

Dutch workers

East Asia

Easterly, William

Econometric models

Economic growth

coal and
collapse of
energy and
energy density and
global warming and
Industrial Revolution and
leveraging and
population growth and
weather and

Economy

competition for prosperity
energy costs and
politics and
systemic collapse
types of

Education

Egalitarianism

Egypt

ancient
food price rioting

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Electricity

Electric lighting

Eletrobras

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Emigration

economic benefits of
of farmers
illegal
restrictions on
subsidized
from U.S.

Empire Settlement Act

Employment

Energy consumption.
See also specific forms of energy

advanced economies and
automobiles and
Brazil
debt and
economic growth and
GDP and
government and
military services and
motor vehicles and
resources
U.S.
World War I and

Energy costs

agriculture and
demand and
economy and
energy density and
historical
peak oil production and
standard of living and
suburban development and
tertiary services and
transportation and
U.S.

Energy density

economic growth and
energy costs and
prosperity and

Energy efficiency

Energy independence

Entitlement debt

Entrepreneurs

Ethanol

Europe

European Climate Exchange

European Union (EU)

Exit taxes

Factor endowments

Fagan, Brian

Famine

Fast food

Fawcett, Percy

Federal budget deficits

Federal Reserve

Female infanticide

Feng, Wang

Ferdinand, Franz

Ferguson, Niall

Fiat money

asset booms and
consumption and
debtism and
economic growth and
impacts of

Fiscal Responsibility Law

Fiscal Surplus Rule

Fisher, John (Jacky)

Fisher, Richard

Fleming, Peter

Flinn, Michael

Food prices

Food stamps

Food supply

Brazil
fast food
global cooling and
marginal returns
population growth and
water resources and

Foreclosures

Foreign banking regulations

Foreign exchange

Foreign trade

Former Soviet Union

Fractional reserve banking

France

Franco, Gustavo

Franco, Itamar

Free market

Friedland, Bruce

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