Title: The Next America: Moving Beyond a Fragile
Economy
Author: Don A. Holbrook
Publisher: Don A. Holbrook
Pages: 304
Language: English
Genre: Nonfiction/Business & Economics
Format: Paperback, eBook & Audio Book
Author: Don A. Holbrook
Publisher: Don A. Holbrook
Pages: 304
Language: English
Genre: Nonfiction/Business & Economics
Format: Paperback, eBook & Audio Book
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The
economic chaos of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis that has created
so much destruction of wealth for regular Americans is far from over.
This book examines problems and possible solutions within national,
international, and local realms that will help us navigate these
times and set a course toward calmer waters. While some clamor for
more taxes to cover our government's programs, The Next America shows
how we can restructure our tax code so it positively affects all
aspects of our communities: education, businesses, innovation,
political transparency, environmental issues, investments, and more.
Concerned citizens and economic players alike will be inspired and
motivated to act to reestablish the American Dream during this
transitional time. The Next America believes an informed citizenry
can create a solution to hold our elected officials accountable for
real change that will be robust and beneficial to all American’s
not just the elite few at the top, without moving away from our free
market and capitalism based economy.
From reading the
newspaper, watching television, or listening to the radio, it should
be clear that the unsettling situation America finds itself in today
has presented us with several conundrums. We are concerned about
where our nation is headed, how to make a living, how to prepare for
retirement, how to create a better life for our families today, and
how to leave our posterity with an inheritance of economic
opportunities.
The global economy has
created more chaos and hardships than most of us have previously
experienced. Not since the Great Depression have folks been so
beleaguered by so many tumultuous problems. Even more devastating is
the degradation of our main pillar of humanity, our core: the family
unit. With the massive amount of unemployment and underemployment
that has arisen in this perfect economic storm, many of us have
burned through our benefit claims, extensions, and options. We face
loss of income and also hope and self-dignity. These immense problems
have made many of us rethink our values and dreams. In the worst of
cases, we have given up the ideal of aspiring for a better life—not
only for ourselves, but also for our children. The economic pressures
are not the only problems in this perfect storm. We face burgeoning
pressure from religious zealots who are not tolerant of religious
differences. We face environmental calamities,
both natural and
man-made. In addition, the resources that we depend on to fuel our
global economy, such as energy, are peaking in costs and diminishing
in availability.
To further frustrate and annoy our already overloaded
psyches, we have a complete lack of trust in our governmental
systems. People are weary of the either/or partisan politics and
government’s failure to look out for our best interests.
Don Holbrook is a private
economist consultant involved in economic development public policy,
site location decisions for private sector investments of new
facilities, strategic destination tourism development feasibility and
public-private partnership conceptualization, including public sector
incentives to entice business investment into local economies. His
non-fiction books on local economic development efforts to rebuild,
renew and sustainably balance economic development public policy to
create world-class communities have been groundbreaking successes
within economic development. His first book, the “Little Black
Book of Economic Development” has spawned a series of follow-up
books on how communities, companies, individuals and families can
navigate these treacherous economic times.
Holbrook is one of the
worlds foremost thought leaders and public speakers on the subject of
how communities can build smart and sustainable local grassroots
driven economic development strategies to achieve maximum success in
what he refers to as “The Art of the Deal Today.”
Holbrook was formally
indoctrinated as a Fellow Member of the International Economic
Development Council, for his lifetime achievements by his peers in
2008.
He lives with wife and
two sons in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 2010, Holbrook was
formally Knighted at West Point USMA as a member of the modern day
Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem, a modern day
Knights Templar Order.
His latest
book is the nonfiction/business/economics,TheNext America: Moving Beyond a Fragile Economy.
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