Peter Holtz, CPA, is the founder and owner of Dream Inc Great Valley, headquartered in Stockton California. Peter founded the business in 2004 after more than two decades as a CEO, CFO and CPA for a variety of businesses with sales ranging from the millions to the billions. Peter has one of a kind experience as a CPA who has also been a CEO and has successfully managed near impossible turnaround situations, nationwide sales programs selling to large customers, product design teams, and setting successful sales and operating strategies for an astonishing variety of business. Peter started the business to provide local business owners with a package of services that integrated rock solid business advice with perfect fit tax planning, exceptional measurement tools, and no-hassle tax compliance services. This synergistic power of these services has produced exceptional results for his successful clients leading to substantial returns on investment with machinelike regularity and precision.

Discover the Upside of Down enlightens readers and give them investment strategies for both protection and profits. Chapters include information on the hot button economic topics of today and for the foreseeable future: oil, gold, real estate, stocks, the dollar, the U.S. and global economies and the future outlook from a longterm viewpoint for each. A timely book with a timely message, this book targets the investor concerned about maintaining their investments during volatile times.

The U.S. economic crisis of 2008 isn't over! The next bubble, explosive government debt, is brewing. At the same time, the economy can't generate growth, the treasury is exhausted, the Fed's balance sheet is over-stressed, consumers remain deep in debt, and short-term interest rates are at near-zero. Intelligent investors can't just mourn the death of easy profits: they want and need new strategies for success through history's potentially worst equity market. In Market Upside Down, Dr. Vinh Q. Tran presents those strategies. Tran begins by explaining why the U.S. financial crisis will only get worse. He then provides professional and active investors a comprehensive framework for profiting in an upside down market that could last for decades. Drawing on his market expertise, as well as experience as money manager to institutional and wealthy investors, Tran shows how to build wealth and generate return in times of crisis with a focus on what will matter most in the coming years: liquidity and risk management. Tran helps investors explore global investments and opportunities that won't depend on the troubled U.S. economy or a reinvigorated market soaring, and shows how to profit from the coming age of scarcity. Along the way, he demonstrates how to use fixed income, hedge funds, and non-traditional investments, with minimal equity risks to create a portfolio that is positioned to provide liquidity, profits and importantly to weather future crises.

Never waste a crisis. Some businesses—and some people—will emerge from today’s economic tumult stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right now. Geoff Colvin, one of America’s most respected business jour-nalists, says even the scariest turbulence has an upside. The best managers know that conventional thinking won’t help them in tough times. They’re taking smart, practical steps—frequently unconventional and even counterintuitive—that will not only keep them strong, but will also distance them from the pack for years to come. The dozens of top-performing leaders Colvin interviewed reject the common view that slashing costs and firing employ­ees are the only effective tactics. They see volatility as a rich opportunity to reinvent their organizations and lay the ground-work for future growth. Colvin shows us how these strategies really work, using exam-ples of major companies that have successfully applied them.

Practical advice for navigating the tough financial times ahead. In his most recent bestselling book, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent predicted the US debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of its government's failed stimulus plan. In The Great Crash Ahead, Dent forecasts that this economic collapse will become worldwide over the next few years. In addition to offering prescriptions for the current crisis, Dent scrutinises some of the most dearly held assumptions of economic theory and practice. With incisive critical analysis and historical examples, Dent reveals how such beliefs - the prevalence of a rational market or of the rational consumer - led to the formation of the great bubble that burst so spectacularly in the crash of 2008. Now we face the reality that the US government's attempts to bolster and rejuvenate the economy have not worked. Dent's investment advice offers no magical solutions or promises for profits in what he calls this wintry economic season; instead, he shows readers how they can survive during this challenging period so that they can thrive when the economy slowly returns to normal.

Over 40 and out of a job? You could be among the vanishing middle class and likely worrying how you're going to survive financially. The answer, says George Newman, author of How to Survive in an Upside Down Economy, is to hire yourself - start your own business and be your own boss. Being out of a job doesn't mean being out of work.

Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America? "A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held equally on both sides of political spectrum, and it seems only to be gaining momentum. A key reason, says Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar, is the fact that Wall Street is no longer supporting Main Street businesses that create the jobs for the middle and working class. She draws on in-depth reporting and interviews at the highest rungs of business and government to show how the “financialization of America”—the phenomenon by which finance and its way of thinking have come to dominate every corner of business—is threatening the American Dream. Now updated with new material explaining how our corrupted financial sys­tem propelled Donald Trump to power, Makers and Takers explores the confluence of forces that has led American businesses to favor balance-sheet engineering over the actual kind, greed over growth, and short-term profits over putting people to work. From the cozy relationship between Wall Street and Washington, to a tax code designed to benefit wealthy individuals and corporations, to forty years of bad policy decisions, she shows why so many Americans have lost trust in the sys­tem, and why it matters urgently to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers,” those stifling job creation while lining their own pockets, and “Makers,” businesses serving the real economy, Foroohar shows how we can reverse these trends for a better path forward.