Bubble After Bubble in The Ongoing Bubble Boom: Oil Bursts, the Housing Bubble Fades and Now Stocks Emerge Into a Greater Bubble that Finally Ends in 2010

Demographics is an important factor when predicting economic trends.

But .... Dont go overboard

I downloaded this and the charts/graphs don't download in anyway.

I like Mr. Dent's info. Although I feel he has missed some things. And how can the dollar in any way not fall further. We have to print more money as the war any many other areas are costing more than we have, and we haven't raised taxes either.

The dollar has fallen since 1972 when the gold standard has been taken away by President Nixon. Look at the graph from gold since March 2003 when the Iraq War started and the dollar has fallen and gold has gone up.

I simply think none of us will know exactly what will happen in the future. I just think the basics are true with Mr. Dent., but he has predicted some things that didn't happen.

I downloaded the digital version, thinking the material was up-to-date, but it was written more than a year ago. Still, it has its moments

He called for the 2000s to "roar" just before the tech bubble burst and the 2000s sputtered. He predicted at the beginning of 2005 that the Dow would hit 14,000 by year end. Hmm...maybe his theories are just wrong.

Why would a careful investor want to risk his money in a bubble of a market anyway? Even Dent acknowledges the "bubble boom" will end badly. The coming crash will catch most investors by surprise. It won't come on Dent's schedule, anymore than the 2000-2002 crash did (he didn't see it coming). His predictions of what will happen year by year into the future are ridiculous considering his totally off the mark predictions for 2005. No one can see the future. But a lot of investment gurus are arrogant (or dishonest) enough to try to convince us they have special abilities to see what the rest of us can't. Dent even throws in some "Elliott waves", a form of numerology that has proven to be irrelevant at best as a forecasting tool and has caused most people who swear by it to underperform the market (wave theory guru Bob Prechter has been trying to short the market for over a decade, convinced by his "wave count" that the Dow will go to 400...obviously Dent has a different "wave count" -- one that points to 40,000.)

My advice is to not put everything in stocks and to have at least 15% of your investment assets in gold and commodities. This has been the "bubble boom" so far in the "roaring 2000s" -- even though H.S. Dent has not recommended commodities.

Harry Dent has a good track record in calling the larger movements and turn-arounds in the stock market and other investments. He uses both fundamentals (e.g. demographics) as well as technical (i.e. charts) to predict what will happen in the stock market, housing prices, oil prices, etc. No one can predict the future prefectly but Dent appears to have a better crystal ball than almost anyone else. I know for sure it's better than mine. I will be making some changes in my investment strategies based on this, but I will also keep an eye out for if things aren't materializing the way he projects.

The main negative I have with this booklet is it is very repetitious.