The Roaring 2000s: Building The Wealth And Lifestyle You Desire In The Greatest Boom In History

Rating:
Summary: Most exciting book on economic prediction ever.
Review: My great interest with this economist began in 1992-3 when "The Great Boom Ahead" came out. I found it to be dead-on, even using other independent business sources to verify the information. Being a Thirteener, this gives me a chance to sift through the hype and get to the meat of economic growth. My only regret is that the website hasn't put up chatrooms yet, which I had asked about several months ago. This kind of information could be used as ammunition to change immigration policy at the federal level. After all, if we can predict booms and busts, we can prevent busts by using "strategic immigration" policy to ensure that the age wave doesn't stop, but doesn't flood the market either. We'd be fools not to try when we can clearly see a depression starting 10-15 years from now. My hope is that the H-1B visa quota lift is the start of something larger.

Rating:
Summary: He's right again!
Review: When the market crashed to 7539 on August 31st, I went back to look at Dent's book which I had bought a couple of months earlier.I was astonished to find he called the correction right down to the month saying the Dow would fall between 7200 and 7600. I then saw him on Good Morning America a couple days later saying that we had seen a bottom and we'd be up and roaring again. And here we are with a new record high! You may think his logic is simplistic but you can't argue with continued accuracy! Take this man's advice!

Rating:
Summary: The Best Book on the Economy.
Review: I saw Mr. Dent in a seminar in early 1993 when he made predictions like the goverment will not go bankrupt in 1995 and will actually turn a surplus, that the 30 year bond will actually break below an unimaginable 6% yeild and that the stock market will roar ahead. He made those predictions when the best selling books in America were Bankruptcy 1995 and the Great Depression of 1990 and Ross Perot was saying the American banks were going bust and there would be "a great sucking sound" that would bring doom to America. I have read 100 books on the stock market. No book has offered a more logical explantation of the underlying causes of the economic events over the last 6 years than has Harry Dent's books. If someone has I would love to know the title. He actually sees the forest and not the trees which is ulitmately where the action is. This book along with the Great Boom Ahead are the best books that I have read that will give you sound guidance in a stock market in which the media basically advocates that we are on the precipice of economic doom and gloom.

Rating:
Summary: The worst book I have read in years
Review: An absolutely terrible book, full of excessive superlatives and short on convincing evidence. On nearly every page of the book, the author makes the claim that we are approaching the greatest boom in human history, yet never makes a convincing case as to why. The book is chalk full of empty statements upon which little elaboration is provided. Harry Dent has successfully taken a quite intuitively compelling argument regarding the economic implication of certain demographic trends and rendered it thoroughly unconvincing. The weakness of this book is not the result of a flawed premise (I actually agree with the basic argument), but rather results from poor writing, redundancy, inappropriate use of data, poor examples and excessive hyperbole. I read approximately 20 books per year, and The Roaring 2000s is the worst book I have read in years.

Rating:
Summary: I Aree With the Reader from Portland, OR
Review: I enjoyed Harry Dent's book, but he made some adjustments from his earlier book called the Great Boom Ahead. In the Great Boom Ahead, Mr. Dent had a hard time explaining the boom in the 1980's. In the Roaring 2000's, he explains the 1980's by saying that the baby boom started in the mid 1930's. The problem with that is that part of the generation is starting to retire now. This should start to put pressure on stocks going down now. Also, Mr. Dent expected some inflation in 1998 which would cause a correction in stocks. There are alot of economic problems, but none of them deal with inflation. Could it be the first boomers are starting to retire which is causing a deflationary spiral downward?

Rating:
Summary: Harry is right on again!
Review: I've read all his books, heard him speak in person several times, and agree with his beliefs 100%. I have followed his advice, and made lots of gains in the funds I'm in. I believe that we will see a dow 20,000 plus and maybe 30,000 between now and 2008. Jump on board with large cap 50% HEAVY FINANCIALS, small caps 25%, international 25% not Japan, and Health/Sciences 25% 25%

Rating:
Summary: Don't get depressed by this down market, listen why
Review: This is an excellent must read for any investor in the stock market and also for entrepenuers on the internet. I happen to be both and have found this to be a great source of predicting the future.

Rating:
Summary: Dent's wisdom will change how you invest, work and live!
Review: Ever since I met Harry at a YPO seminar last year, I've been his biggest fan. As a private equity investor, I try to pick the companies that will grow into the Roaring 2000s. In fact, I now benchmark companies I invest in against the sage outlook and analyses provided in this book. I found Dent's chapter on "The New Network Corporation" particularly fascinating. Anyone who wishes to advance their job, personal balance sheet or company should read and apply the keen insights offered in this easy-to-understand and very well written book.

Rating:
Summary: Classic case of manipulating data to serve your own purposes
Review: While Dent has much useful and relevant data, he presents a fair amount of data through his own filters which make it appear they support his conclusions. Someone else could use the same data and arrive at very different conclusions. He may be right on some of his conclusions, and I think he is, but he is certainly no prophet.

Rating:
Summary: Valuable forecasting info, well presented and understandable
Review: Great read for anyone in business; clearly outlines how demographic trends drive economies. Makes a sensible forecast on how the economy will change going forward, what segments will shrink and grow, and how to use this info to invest in stocks, real estate, businesses, etc. Gets a little way out on technology directions, the usual claims about infinite bandwidth and space planes to Tokyo by the millenium, but all and all a great read.