The book is devoted to the analysis of the causes and patterns of the recent global economic crisis and their impact on today's investment decisions. John Mauldin and Jonathan Tepper conducted a detailed analysis of the characteristics of the crisis in different countries. The book contains many facts, informative graphs and tables, which allows readers to conduct their own analysis and check the conclusions of the authors or make their own, critically evaluate practical investment recommendations based on various macroeconomic scenarios described in the book.