Description Product Details Reviews (0) The Clipper Ship Strategy: For Success in Your Career, Business and Investments The Clipper Ship Strategy by Richard J. Maybury explains how government’s interference in the economy affects business, careers, and investments. It’s a practical nuts-and-bolts strategy for prospering in our turbulent economy. Conventional wisdom says that when the government expands the money supply, the money descends on the economy in a uniform blanket. This is incorrect. The money is injected into specific locations causing hot spots or “cones.” In The Clipper Ship Strategy Mr. Maybury explains a system for tracking and profiting from these cones, for locating genuine money-making opportunities, and for avoiding those which are false or dangerous. Includes step-by-step instructions, and clever illustrations that make the system easy to understand. Explains how to cope with recessions and avoid unemployment. Using the epistolary style of writing (using letters to tell a story), Mr. Maybury plays the part of an economist (Uncle Eric) writing a series of letters to his niece or nephew (Chris). Using stories and examples, Mr. Maybury gives interesting and clear explanations of topics that are generally thought to be too difficult for anyone but experts. Mr. Maybury warns, “beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. Many people are twice as smart as they think they are, but they’ve been intimidated into believing some topics are above them. You can understand almost anything if it is explained well.” Table of Contents Uncle Eric’s Model of How the World WorksAuthor’s Disclosure Part 1 – Sales Strategy1. A Strategy for Success2. Ethics and the Flood of Data3. Hot Spots and Evidence4. Austrian Economics5. Line and Staff6. The Clipper Ship Strategy7. Piles of Money8. The Money Spreads9. Cones and Sales10. Scooping and Pouring11. All Roads12. Cone Creation13. The Super Clipper14. Do Cones Really Exist?15. The Biggest, Most Stable Cone16. Accidental Cones17. Houston: Portrait of an Accidental Cone18. Other Accidental Cones19. Hollow Cones20. An Ecosystem in Chaos21. Outside Sales22. Benefits of This Understanding23. Tax & Regulatory Cones24. Marginality25. Marketing Managers26. The Automobile27. How to Follow the Cones28. A Case Study: Sacramento29. Hot Spots and Zips30. The Importance of a Model for Sorting Your Data31. Cone Classification32. Is Pinpoint Accuracy Necessary?33. How to Classify Cones34. Precision and Size of Firm35. Split Cones36. An Eerie Feeling37. Gathering More Information38. Specialized Organizations and Publications39. External Information – A D.E.W. Line40. S.I.C. Codes41. List Companies and Marketing Data42. Importance of Real Estate43. Learn by Example44. Sales Side Summary Part 2 – Production Strategy45. Stomping the Town46. Your Factors of Production47. Streamlining48. Cyclical Problems49. Break-Even Analysis50. Mrs. Garcia51. A New Industry52. Break-Even Solutions53. The Most Risky Investment54. Specialization55. Payback Analysis56. Start-Up Firms: An Example57. Careers in BCM58. Investment Strategy59. Two Types of Investment Cones60. Summary AppendixBibliographyBookstoresGlossaryAbout the AuthorIndex Reviews “Richard Maybury’s new book, The Clipper Ship Strategy, is an outstanding addition to his series dealing with the subjects of economics, law, politics, business and freedom. His extraordinary ability to present complex subjects in simple, common-sense terms, spiced with humor and fascinating examples, makes this book and the others in the series must reading for both the young and adults, alike. In fact, the entire series should be a required, integral, component of the social studies curriculum in all public and private schools. This would bring a quantum leap upward in the quality of citizenship in this country in a single generation.” —William P. Snavely, Emeritus Professor of Economics, George Mason University “While Maybury’s ‘lessons’ are valuable for everyone, I especially recommend this book to potential entrepreneurs and businessmen. I would make it required reading for them if I could. (Those who might be employees can also find out how to select a career and/or company to work for that is likely to remain economically healthy!)” —Cathy Duffy, Author, Christian Home Educators’ Curriculum Manual “I use it [the clipper ship strategy] in my business and investments. It works great!” —Barry Conner, President, The Home Place, Inc. “We are a homeschooling family of nine years and we are reading The Clipper Ship Strategy. My son particularly has found evidence in the newspapers and in the news of things you mention in your books. Thank you for writing these books and please don’t stop.” —E.B. “We have read Clipper Ship – LOVED it! You have the best way of putting information across that is easily understood and truthful! Thanks!!” —R.B.
