Four Books You Need to Read BEFORE The USA’s 2020s Crisis Goes Full Throttle

1. The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

• Takes a broad look at large cycles of 500 years
• Analyzes the four main eras of humanity: hunter gatherer, farming, industrial, and now information age
• This time not just a 500 year transition, but also transition into information age
• The nation-state’s power will fade away, like the church during the Renaissance, or Rome after the year 500

2. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy

• Zooms in to look at 80+ year cycles, split into 20 year generations
• Starting from the start of revolutionary war, we are now in another 80+ year Fourth Turning crisis that will peak intensity in 2027.
• This leads to a new era where major change occurs that “no one” predicted
• This culminates in a crisis, and when the crisis is solved, a new order emerges

3. The Storm Before the Calm: America’s Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond

• More recent book that looks at what is happening now– why people feel left out and angry
• Looks more at 50 year economic cycles– coming to an end at the same time as the 80 year social cycle
• Dives more into what will happen politically– the two party system as we know it will not survive
• There will be a new coalition of working class Americans as a backlash to “technocracy”– rule by “experts”

4. Principles for Dealing with a Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail

• Brand new book from a self-made billionaire investor who runs the biggest hedge fund in the world
• Also talks about the culmination of the 80 and 50 year social and economic cycles, but focuses on economic problems
• Says late in a debt cycle, what has been profitable for everyone in living memory becomes dangerous: right now, that means debt assets
• The future will NOT look like the past, and the best solution is to diversify