The Borromeo Family Website

My five books include the titles 1) “Volkswagen: the Peoples’ Car” (267 pages), 2) “Scale Model Collectibles” (419 pages), 3) “Named Vessels of the German and Austro-Hungarian Navies” (501 pages), 4) “The Borromeo Family” (240 pages) and 5) “The Mediterranean Strategy of the Kriegsmarine” (49 pages to date).  The first three titles will soon be published by PublishAmerica, Inc. of Fredericksburg, Maryland (in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan region).  PublishAmerica, Inc. has 40,000 of the 250,000 book titles in the United States.  About one-quarter of these total numbers are “active.”  This translates into a 16 percent market share.  Self-publishers have about 40% of the titles, but most of them are limited edition runs of about 1,000 copies each.  Traditional publishing houses based in the USA, the UK, Germany and other countries have the remaining 44% of the titles.

This new page (online since 2010) has received 1,225 visitors to date.  Thank you very much for your interest and for your visits!

1) “Volkswagen: the Peoples’ Car” details the corporate history of the Volkswagen Group of Germany, from the engineer of the original Volkswagen Beetle Sedan (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche, Sr.) to the highly successful business group the world knows today with the diverse name brands of Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti, MAN, Scania, Porsche and Suzuki.  Volkswagen is the most successful auto group on earth, but when it was founded few people would have thought this possible.  Discover how one company succeeds where most others have failed and continue to fail.  Find out about the causes behind the current global financial crisis. This is especially pertinent in today’s harsh economic environment.  The illustrations for this book have the official endorsement of Volkswagen A.G. of Wolfsburg, Germany and their major subsidiaries such as Volkswagen of America, Volkswagen of Canada and Volkswagen de México, S.A. de C.V., as well as the largest air-cooled VW enthusiast site worldwide: www.thesamba.com (the Samba is based in Phoenix, Arizona and has received 75 million individual visitors, 279 million visits and 4.9 BILLION page views since it was established in 1996).

2) “Scale Model Collectibles” discusses the highly popular British scale-model car brands of Matchbox and Dinky (owned by Mattel, Inc. of the United States) plus those of Corgi, Lledo, Jouef and Tomica (owned by Corgi Toys of the United Kingdom).  Other brands such as Minichamps of Germany, Schuco of Germany, Schabak of Germany, Wiking of Germany, IXO-IST of China, Brekina of Germany and BUB-Premium Classixx of Geramny are also discussed.  Corporate history, marketing history and many past model catalogues are discussed for both Matchbox and Corgi.  This book has the endorsement of Hornby Toys of the United Kingdom, which owns numerous famous brands including Corgi, Lledo and Jouef.

3) “Named Vessels of the German and the Austro-Hungarian Navies” deals specifically with more than 1,900 unique warships from German-speaking Europe starting with the Hanseatic League of the Middle Ages and moving forward in time to include the navies of Brandenburg-Prussia, the Germanic Confederation, the North German Federation, Bismarckian-Wilhelmine Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the former East Germany, the modern Federal Republic of Germany, Venice, Austria, Austria-Hungary and the river fleet of the modern Republic of Austria.  This is by far the most comprehensive such catalogue of vessels ever published.  The historical context of the German state and Central Europe are also discussed; one will discover how they are related to European and global history through the noble families of Europe.  This book makes fascinating and pertinent reading in a modern world where Germany owns the second largest merchant fleet and heads the largest economy.  The illustrations for this book have the official endorsement of “Freunde Historiker Schiffe” (“Friends of Historical Ships” of the Austrian Naval League) of Vienna, Austria and of www.german-navy.de, a site administered by Michael Emmerich of Germany.  Mr. Emmerich’s site has received more than 18 million visitors to date.

4) “The Borromeo Family” discusses the Borromeo family in the Philippines, which was established there in 1744.  The main Philippine branches of the family were established in 1744 (in Cavite on Luzon), in 1769 (in Iloilo on Panay), in 1794 (in Bacolod on Negros) and finally in 1819 in Cebu City.  Special sections include a brief history of the Philippines, a family genealogy, the history of the Borromeo Group of Companies, the Cebuano Prayer Book by my late maternal grandmother Anunciacion Bonjoc Rallos de Borromeo and the story of my late maternal grandfather Judge Andrés Borromeo y Reynes.  The link with the Vitaliani-Borromeo family of Padua, Naples and Milan in Italy is also discussed.  Other notable branches of the modern Borromeo family include those in Argentina, India, on the Island of Corsica (“Borromei”) and Brazil (“Borromeu”).

5) “The Mediterranean Strategy of the Kriegsmarine” discusses the World War Two strategy of German Grand Admiral Erich Raeder.  By early June of 1941, Germany and her Axis partners plus “friendly” neutral nations (i.e., at least trading with Germany such as Vichy France, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain and the Soviet Union) comprised roughly 70 percent of the world’s population.  None of the leadership within the German Navy (“Kriegsmarine”) or Air Force (“Luftwaffe”) favored an invasion of the Soviet Union. Within the German Army (“Wehrmacht-Heer”) and Waffen-SS (armed SS) opposition to the planned invasion within the General Staff surpassed 90 percent of the leadership.  Grand Admiral Raeder had strategic designs on North Africa, the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and the Indian Subcontinent.  Field Marshall Erwin Rommel of the famous “Afrika Korps” was of the same opinion as Grand Admiral Raeder.  Their goal was to link up with the forces of Imperial Japan in India – which had already advanced as far as Burma.

Endorsements of “Volkswagen: the Peoples’ Car” by Marc E. Nonnenkamp:

1.) Frederic Saint Amour II (author of “Corporate Infantry: Everything I know about Corporate Sales I learned in Combat”).

2.) “New Line Equity Pre-Foreclosure Acquisition Services.”

3.) Jeff Noel (“BMW Automotive Blog”).

4.) “Car Insurance Information Blog.”

5.) Victor Keith and Greg Frost (authors of “Peak Confidence – High Converting Confidence Building System”).

6.) Rusty Norris (“Fast Saturday Links” Blog Archive).

7.) Joseph Chambers (author of “Custom Car Interior Secrets – Ultimate Guide to Car Upholstery”).

8.) Mark Sykes (Editor-in-Chief, the “Athena Press”).

9.) Horst Nonnenkamp (“Naturfreunde Touristenverein” of Barsinghausen, Germany).

10.)  Everett Barnes (administrator of the huge VW enthusiast site www.thesamba.com).

Endorsements of “Named Vessels of the German and the Austro-Hungarian Navies” by Marc E. Nonnenkamp:

1.) Captain George J. Albert, Jr. (California Center for Military History).

2.) Hermann Landmeyer (Marineortungsschule MOS, Militärschule Bremerhaven of the Federal German Navy).

3.) Mario Wegmann (Marinefliegergeschwader 3 “Graf Zeppelin” Nordholz – Naval Air Wing of the Federal German Navy).

4.) Deutscher Marinebund E.V. (German Naval League of Kiel, Germany – founded in 1891 by Kaiser Wilhelm II and Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz).

5.) Südtiroler Volkspartei (Christian Democratic South Tyrolian Peoples’ Party of the German, Ladin and Romansch ethnic minorities of Northeastern Italy, founded in 1946).

6.) Junge Generation in der Südtiroler Volkspartei (Christian Democratic youth organization of the South Tyrolian Peoples’ Party – membership open to people under the age of 30).

7.) Alexander Traiber of www.kuk-kriegsmarine.at (“Friends of Historical Ships” Society of Austria).

8.) Michael Emmerich of www.german-navy.de, which has received more than 18 million visitors to date.

Financial Update (June 7, 2010)

Much has happened and much more is coming.  It looks like the market finally turned on April 26, 2010 when the Dow Jones 30 Industrials Index touched the level of 11,260.  To recap, this is the start of the largest financial crash in at least 300 years – more likely 1,500 years.  The market may collapse into 2016, or over the coming six years.  Expect large periodic but temporary retracements in the range of 60 to 80 percent – but nevertheless the market and the economy are headed down very big time.  Since April 26 the global market surrendered 14 percent of its remaining value (we lost 50 percent of worldwide historical nominal value from 1999 to March 2009).

A geopolitical earthquake of massive magnitude is also brewing.  Both the European Union (EU) and the Euro are headed for collapse.  The market already sells “default premiums” for the sovereign debt of Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, the UK and for money center banks such as Banco Satander (of Spain) and RBS (of Scotland, UK).  Eventually, Germany will have to leave the EU along with other healthy European countries in an effort to establish a new “Central European” bloc of circa 300 million people.

The United States and the US Dollar will follow suit after the collapse of the EU and the Euro.  This will transpire after the collapse of the US stock market and Dollar denominated credit. From 80 to 90 percent of existing US Dollar loans will go bad.  Safe money is in US treasuries for the time being (near zero interest), but eventually this will migrate into Gold and the Swiss Franc.  Gold is already bucking the trend of other commodities, which are collapsing.

Mainland China will see a violent correction in her real property market, but she will still emerge from the global crash as the number one world power.  China and her eventual economic satellites (such as Indonesia, Russia, the Philippines, Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia, etc.) will have a combined population of 2.2 billion people.  India (which will not even crash, and which is already heading into an historic bull market) will draw countries such as Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka into her economic orbit (combined population of 1.4 billion people).  The next power base emerging is around Brazil, which will eventually comprise all of Latin America (600 million people).  Brazil is already beginning to fill the Western Hemisphere vacuum to be left by the bankrupt USA and Canada.

Sub-Saharan Africa (900 million people) will never emerge from poverty as a group.  Local exceptions will include Namibia, which is attracting large numbers of Chinese companies interested in energy and minerals for the Chinese economy.  The Dinar countries of the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans (300 million people) will emerge as something of a new “super regional” Switzerland.

The soon-to-be bankrupt countries (combined population of 1.1 billion people) are the primary reason for the emerging collapse.  They include the USA, Pakistan, Japan, France, the UK, Italy, Thailand, Spain, the Ukraine, Canada, Australia, Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Hungary, etc.  Most of them have ageing populations with far too many people living off so-called public assistance.  75 percent of all mortgage loans in the USA were originated by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae, the FHA and the Federal Home Loan Banks.  In other words, NONE of these loans ever should have been made.  They are all doomed.  The entire public sector “bailout” in North America, Western Europe and Japan is about to unravel.  All companies on the bailout will fail (banks, insurers, manufacturers, etc.).  Many governments (supra-national, national, state, provincial, municipal, county and city) will also bite the dust.

July 4, 2010