The Roaring 2000's: Building the Wealth & Lifestyle You Desire in the Greatest Boom in History

by Harry S. Dent Jr.

Book Overview

Discusses upcoming economic, technological, and demographic trends for the beginning of the twenty-first century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684838184
• ISBN13: 9780684838182
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended!

Harry S. Dent may be the one-eyed economist living in the land of the blind. His previous book, The Great Boom Ahead, predicted our current, record-shattering market (although it underestimated its strength). Now he's updated his analysis with a new focus that extends the boom prediction through the end of the current decade. His results may prove more effective than his methodology, because Dent is a futurist who subscribes to a deterministic model. He believes that population growth and technological adoption control economic growth. Upon these foundations, Dent builds a vision of continued, unprecedented growth that may make him Enemy Number One on Alan Greenspan's Irrational Exuberance Most Wanted. But to doubters, Dent can offer the nearly irrefutable: "Yeah, but I was right." If you're in business, you should know the basics of Dent's philosophy, and if you're in the markets at all, we [...] recommend that you read this book. After all, you can't argue with his track record!

A Gripping and Intelligent Assessment of the Market

As a financial services professional, I highly recommend Harry Dent's works. The Roaring 2000s: Building the Wealth and Life Style You Desire confirms Mr. Dent's standing as a clear-headed and highly skilled analyst of the economic scene. Every investor, every securities professional and every insurance broker should take the time to read this book, or at least, to listen to the excellent audio version of it.

Believe it or Not

I received this book as a gift from a dear friend of mine about twelve months ago. When he gave it to me he looked in my eyes and said ... "STUDY THIS BOOK."And I did what almost every normal person with little time on his hands does .... I put the book in my book case and did not read it.Six months went by, and Laura, my youngest daughter (26) came to visit for a couple of days and asked to borrow the book. Two days went by and Laura called me and asked if I thought Mr. Dent was on the money in his predictions. She was surprised to hear that I have not read the book yet, and made me swear that I will buy another copy and read it, and I did. This took place in October 1999.After reading this book, I was a believer that technology will lead us to better places and I started investing heavily in the stock market. At the same time, I read another excellent book on short-term trading, "Stock Trading Wizard" by Tony Oz, and he talked about cost averaging for long-term growth. He wrote about the QQQ which tracks tech stocks (nasdaq 100 index) and I started buying into this stock. I also bought other tech issues and on the morning of January 2, 2000, I sold half my portfolio for more money than I initially invested. I took my initial investment off the table, plus some profits, and I have the rest invested in QQQ for long-term growth. I am staying with technology.I want to thank Mr. Dent as it was for him that I saw the opportunity. I still think that his predictions will come true, and I have my money where his mouth is.So if you believe him or not, I think you should read it. So far, I have more than 250,000 reasons to believe him.

I really enjoyed this book

I am a short-term trader. I face the challenge of making calls on the direction of the market, industries and individual stocks on a daily basis. I think it takes a lot of courage to try and forecast global economy and the stock market ten years into the future. The author illustrates very interesting points and paints a picture that is definitely worth looking at. I recommend reading this book. Even if you disagree with some of the points or even all of the points in this book, I still think it will be worth your time and money.Tony Oz - Author Stock Trading wizard

Best summary of how to apply demographics to your life

Peter Drucker has been teaching the importance of demographics to business people and investors for decades. In all this time, only Harry S. Dent, Jr. has created a practical look at the implications of demographics for each of us. In creating this book, he has moved well beyond his earlier work, and created information that each person must have. For a popular book, this is written in a way that makes it very accessible and easy to use. I highly recommend that you get this book, read it, and refer to the many wonderful summary graphs daily to remind you what questions to ask yourself about how demographics will affect your life, business, and investments. I look forward to reading future books from Mr. Dent.