The author analyzes the great financial crashes of modern times, ranging from the South Sea Bubble to Wall Street, in an attempt to prove that recent crises in international stock markets repeat precisely the patterns of earlier crashes, and explains how to survive and profit from them. Investment analyst Robert Beckman presented the daily LBC radio programme, "The Beckman Report", for 12 years and has been a featured commentator on "Money Matters" for TVSW and "Money Talk" for TV AM. He is the editor of his own weekly publication, "Investors Bulletin", and the author of "Share Price Analysis", "Supertiming" and "Into the Upwave".