Copyright (c) 2008 Derek Clontz/4-Page Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
YOU CAN get rich while everyone around you is going broke with the super tips you’ll find in economist Dr. John Paul Toffleson’s riveting new book: In the Money: Depression Secrets of the Super Wealthy.
And the advice couldn’t come at a better time.
According to the Toffleson, America is just weeks away from Wall Street crash that will leave as many as 140 million men and women out of work and begging for jobs that might not come back for a decade or longer as bankruptcies soar and businesses struggle to stay afloat with:
- fewer customers,
- tighter credit, and,
- soaring, Jimmy-Carteresque interest rates of 18 to 20 percent.
And that, says the economist, is good news for people who don’t mind getting rich off the misery of others.
The longer the downturn lasts, he notes, the more money you can make in a variety of “borderline-legal” and “semi-ethical” but high-paying home businesses like kitchen dentistry, toilet-paper gouging, road-kill take-out, unlicensed beer, wine and whisky sales, amateur protection rackets, backyard burial services and many, many more.
“The scenario isn’t pretty, but make no mistake – it can work to your advantage if you go to work without delay,“ the Washington, D.C.-based expert told me exclusively.
“For starters, you should hoard items that everybody will need after the collapse – items like toilet paper, condoms, knives, guns, bullets, birth control pills, clean water and food.
“You also need to prepare yourself psychologically to take advantage of neighbors, family members and friends in the toughest of Fortune 500 traditions. This is not a strategy for ‘people who care about people.’
“It’s a strategy for people who care about money – and who want to get rich at any cost.
“The good news is that you don‘t need a lot of money to make a lot money during a depression. A basic understanding of capitalism – and a willingness to put compassion on the back burner while you extract wealth from desperate people in desperate need – are all it takes to accumulate riches in the worst of times.”
Here, from Toffleson’s book, which has been rushed to press and could be in book stores as early as September, are some down-and-dirty ways to turn hard times to good times:
- It’s easier than you think to become an unlicensed doctor, surgeon or dentist. When the economy collapses so, too, will the medical establishment as millions Americans lose health insurance and the ability to pay for medical care.
Doctors – even self-proclaimed folk doctors and self-taught dentists – will be in high demand, and, up to a point, you can name your price. Study survival manuals now to learn tricks of the trade. For example, few people know that the best way to extract a painful abscessed tooth when there’s no dentist around is to use a string to attach it to a bent sapling – and then let the sapling go.
Now you do – and it’s just one of many medical procedures that you can charge for during the coming 2nd Depression.
- Start a bootleg pharmacy. Sales of drugs, herbs, and over-the-counter remedies like headache powders are a multi-billion dollar industry. You can still buy powerful, nutritionally supportive herbs and supplements, for example – at bargain prices for resale at a premium later.
Stockpile treatments for key afflictions now, such as for headaches and back pain. Remember: Doctors and hospitals charge $10 for an aspirin. So can you.
- Work “under the table” as an undertaker. People die regardless of the state of the economy. And as is usually the case during severe economic downturns, suicide rates are sure to soar.
Licensed undertakers charge a fortune for funerals and cemetery plots. You can cash in by offering cut-rate services, including backyard and landfill burials. Scour the Internet and your local library now for embalming strategies and tips on conducting funerals.
Start spreading the word that you’re “interested” in funerals and burials. That will increase word-of-mouth advertising after the collapse.
- Sell guns and ammo to criminals and other high bidders. Stockpile arms and ammunition now.
If Toffleson is correct, and convicts and looters and even hungry cannibals are running wild in the streets, terrified people – including former gun control nuts and criminals who use a lot of ammo during the normal course of “business” – will pay any price for what you’ve got.
- Run a protection racket. You don’t have to sell your guns and ammo to get rich during the depression.
Run a protection racket – Mafia style – to empty the wallets of small businessmen and neighbors, such as senior citizens and single moms, who don’t have the means or the will to protect themselves.
- Learn how to kill, dress and cook pets and serve them up as take-out from your own kitchen. With meat and all food in short supply, dogs and cats will start looking mighty tasty.
And you’ll be able to catch all the critters you can cook in your own neighborhood and the surrounding countryside.
- If you can’t bring yourself to prepare pets for the dinner table, try road kill. Prepare now by familiarizing yourself with methods of preparing wild meat and presenting “damaged goods” in an appetizing way.
- Survivalists agree that when push comes to shove, the hottest commodity during a depression – when manufacturing and distribution of consumer items will grind to a halt – will be ordinary toilet paper.
Hoard now and just a few months after the collapse, you can name your price.
- Stock up now on the ingredients you need to make homemade whisky, wine and beer. Nothing makes people want to forget their worries like a depression. Sell them the booze they need to pickle their brains at reduced prices.
- Learn to read palms, tell fortunes and give psychic readings. The depression will leave people anxious and in despair over what the future might hold for them. And you can make megabucks giving them the skinny.
- Get a year’s supply of batteries for a portable TV and radio and start a “mini theater” that entertainment-starved patrons will pay you to visit.
Remember: With the power turned off for lack of payment, and their home entertainment systems sitting idle, people will still want to be entertained. They’ll scrape up the bucks to make this a profitable venture for you.
- It sounds cruel, but you should stockpile water-purification tablets now so you can sell a commodity that is even more important than food – water.
Thirsty people will pay anything for a drink – and when city water systems shut down or lose power, you’ll have the means to sell creek and river water at big prices.
- Learn high-pressure bartering techniques now so you can take advantage of people who have no money to pay you for your services.
“Why trade a gallon of water for a reclining chair when you can get a pickup truck?” asks Toffleson. “You shouldn’t.”
Copyright (c) Derek Clontz/4-Page Media, Inc. All rights reserved.
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