Martenson Chris - Prosper!: how to prepare for the future and create a world worth inheriting

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS

BY ROBERT KIYOSAKI

THE PRICE OF BAD ADVICE

In 1970, if someone put $1 million in the bank, they might have received $150,000 in annual interest. In 1970, you could live on $150,000 a year.

In 2015, if someone puts $1 million in the bank, they might receive $10,000 a year in interest. If that family attempts to live on $10,000 a year, they are technically below the poverty line, althoughtechnicallymillionaires.

And yet financial experts continue to say, Save money. Why would anyone save money when banks and governments are printing money?

But wait, it gets worse.

Financial advisors recommend people Invest for the long term. Yet after 2007, HFT, high frequency trading, began dominating the market. While mom and pop are investing for the long term, HFT traders are trading in milliseconds and microseconds.

So who made the most money after China devalued their currency and global stock markets crashed? Ill give you a hint: It was not the mom-and-pop long-term investors.

People investing for the long term in the stock market are like saversthe next big losers.

In 2002, Rich Dads Prophecy was published. Prophecy predicted that the biggest stock market crash in history was coming in 2016. Prophecy also predicted an initial major crash that would arrive prior to the giant crash of 2016. That initial crash arrived in October 2007, when the Dow headed south and the subprime crisis took Lehman Brothers and other down.

My point is, this collapse was predictable to those who were paying attention. In my 60-minute video titled, The Man Who Could See The Future, offered for free from The Rich Dad Company, you can see footage of me on national television prior to October, warning people of the coming crash and downfall of Lehman Brothers.

My prediction of an even larger market crash in 2016one that will result in tremendous wealth destruction for manystill stands. Again, those paying attention are seeing signs of instability everywhere.

But this time, the threat is not just economic. Critical systems and global resources we depend on for our modern way of life are starting to fail. There will be few places to take shelter from this coming storm.

Following bad advice at a time like this is not just risky. Its dangerous.

THE VALUE OF GOOD ADVICE

The year 2016 is just around the corner. We all need to prepare for whats coming, and theres little time left. That is why I am endorsing Prosper! I know Chris and Adam wellthese guys have more than a crystal ball.

They have an actionable framework for building true wealth (its about more than simply money) and combine it with sound advice for how to face the tremendous challenges that lie dead ahead. They lay out specific steps that will not only make you much less vulnerable to the coming disruption, but will position you to prosper greatly when it arrives. Ive already put many of these steps into practice in my own life.

I loved Chris first book, The Crash Course, and I love Prosper!

Those who are well positioned when crisis hits make fortunes overnight. Unfortunately, those following bad advice (like that offered by most financial advisors today) are wiped out.

I want you to prosper in the years ahead. The coming crash of 2016 may be your biggest opportunity to do so if you prepare wisely in advance. And thats why I encourage you to read Prosper! today, not tomorrow.

Robert Kiyosaki

C reating a book requires a substantial sacrifice of time and energy from many other people than just its authors. This book is no exception.

While the list of those who helped make this book possible is long, several people deserve special recognition:

Garrett Sutton and Mona Gambetta for their championship and tireless efforts in mobilizing the team at RDA Press to publish this work under an ambitiously tight time schedule.

Ken Harp, Susan Kammerzell, Jason Wiskerchen and Becca Martenson for their service as chapter reviewers and their excellent feedback, which were invaluable additions to the authors best efforts.

Ron and Peg Stewart for generously providing the remote cabin retreat where the planning and concept work for this book was carried out.

Maryann Taggart for designing the visuals that appear throughout the chapters.

Kenny McElroy, because many of the ideas in here were jarred loose that day on the back trails of Sedona, along with a few molars.

The thousands of participants in our Peak Prosperity seminars, but especially the few hundreds that have attended the intimate gatherings at the Rowe Conference Center, who helped us shape and refine the material in this book over the years.

The millions of wonderful, dedicated visitors to the PeakProsperity.com website for inspiring and encouraging us to share this message of resilience more widely, and who were patient with us as we hunkered down to write this book.

Finally and most importantly: our wives and children for their tolerance and support during the long months we were absorbed with writing, being generally negligent as husbands and fathers. For Chris, thats Becca, Erica, Simon and Grace. For Adam, its Ashley, Merritt and Charlotte. To us, you are the most valuable form of capital.

With great gratitude,

Chris & Adam

Y ou can feel it in your bones: the world is in crisis. You see the signs every day. They are in the overabundance of depressing news, revealed by overly-stressed natural systems, and telegraphed by the emotional strains exhibited by people you know.