Mr. Harry Dent

Author - "The Next Great Bubble Boom"

Harry S. Dent, Jr. is an American economist and writer. His most well-known book, The Roaring 2000s, appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Education:
University of South Carolina, BA; Harvard Business School, MBA.

Awards and Honors:
Dent is also the president and founder of the H.S. Dent Foundation.

Notable:
Dent makes heavy use of charts, cycles and trends apart from his demographic theories in predicting future economic and stock cycles. His work is primarily based on the assumption that most long term stock market performance can be explained by studying long term trends and charts from the past. His critics question the assumption that clues to all major stock market events can be found in the relatively short history of well functioning stock markets in the world. His work has also been criticized for heavy use of data dredging - where it is easy to find patterns in past data and assign predictive powers to them when many such patterns occur in every data collection purely by chance.

Further Reading:
The Next Great Bubble Boom, Dent, Harry (2004)
The Roaring 2000s Investor,Dent, Harry (1999)
The Roaring 2000s, Dent Harry (1998)
The Great Jobs Ahead, Dent Harry (1995)
The Great Boom Ahead, Dent, Harry (1993)
Our Power to Predict, Dent, Harry (1989)
"Harry Dent forecast for '06: stocks ready to rally", Tampa Bay Business Journal, January 5, 2006. Accessed January 22, 2006
Laderman, Jeffrey M. "Call It a Boomer Boom: Demographics tell author Dent that the Dow will hit 40,000", Business Week Online, March 20, 2000. Accessed January 22, 2006
"Dent revises forecast and says Dow will only hit 20,000", Harry Dent Website, November 11, 2006. Accessed November 11, 2006