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Crisis Control in the New Millennium ( Seven Key Principles for Your Financial Prosperity )

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This book was published in 1999, it predicted something happened today. 10 years ago, I tried to collect books and later sell books on amazon, I did not continue to sell books until 2005. Instead occasionaly, I start to read some books in my garrage. Now it is June, 2009, it is funny to read this book too late personaly. Anyway, congratulation to the Author Larry Burkett, you are not forgotten.

I pick up this book in the local library. I am glad I did not waste money to but this book. Buckett claims that he is a Christian but he lacks Christian character in the introduction. "... a Christian finanial planner, who is not very successful in his own right, wrote a book in which he attacked my previous book..." He may disagee on what other people say about him, but calling names like "not very successful" is not a Christian act.

Some of the terms stated in the book is just wrong. e.g. "Treasury bills are fairly illiquid investments, because you need to hold them for a year or more." (p. 61) This is not true. T-bills are the most liquid investment you can find for SHORT term money. T-bill are short term investment with a 365 days maturity or less. I never heard of anybody who could not sell their T-bills and have to wait to maturity.

Most predictions (if not all) provided by Backett in chapter 4 about the economic fallout from Y2K are ridicous and wrong. As we know now those predictions never happened.

"Our immigrant population, rising medical costs, national defence, and particularly our nation's moral bankruptcy must all be reckoned as economic liabilities." (p. 95) Buckett tries to blame immigrants for the economic problems in the nation is just down right racist.

This is just another of his book to misuse the Bible for his fundamentist ideas. I just wondered, what would Jesus do with this book?