The Next Great Bubble Boom — part crystal ball, part financial planner — offers a comprehensive forecast for the next two decades, showing new models for predicting the future behavior of the economy, inflation, large- and small-cap stocks, bonds, key sectors, and so on. In taking a look at past booms and busts, Dent compares our current state to that of the crash of 1920-21, and the years ahead of us to the Roaring Twenties. Dent gives advice on everything from investment strategies to real estate cycles, and shows not only how bright our future will be but how best to profit from it.

Dent gives us all something to look forward to, including:

• The Dow hitting 40,000 by the end of the decade
• The Nasdaq advancing at least ten times from its October 2001 lows to around 13,500, and potentially as high as 20,000 by 2009
• Another strong advance in stocks in 2005, with a significant correction into around September/October 2006
• The Great Boom resurging into its final and strongest stage in 2007, and even more fully in 2008, lasting until late 2009 to early 2010

Dent's amazing ability to track and forecast our financial future is renowned, and here he takes that ability to the next level, showing not only what our economy will look like but also how it will affect us as individuals, as organizations, and as a culture. From the upcoming wealth revolution to the essential principles of entrepreneurial success, the book describes a new society where economic and philanthropic development go hand in hand.

In The Next Great Bubble Boom, Dent shows not only how the economic growth of the late 1990s was a prelude to the true great boom right around the corner but how all of us can reap its benefits.

Prologue

The New Science: How Simple, Predictable Principles Drive Complex Change

1 The Investment Opportunity of a Lifetime

Uncanny Parallels with the "Tech Wreck" of 1919-1922 and the Roaring Twenties "Bubble Boom" That Followed

2 The Bubble Boom

Why the Five Conditions That Create Technology Bubbles Will Continue in This Decade

3 Taking Advantage of Strong Recurring Cycles to Reduce Risk in Volatile Markets

The Most Comprehensive Forecast and Simplest Investing Model Ever

4 Demographics and the Outlook for Real Estate

Home Prices Will Continue to Underperform Stock Prices and the Economy for the Rest of This Decade

5 Life Planning

How the Economy's Life Cycle Will Intersect with Your Own

6 The Outlook for Investment Markets

Large-Cap, Small-Cap, and International Stocks; Long- and Short-Term Bonds

7 Optimum Portfolio Strategies for the Great Boom Ahead and the Great Bust to Follow

Understanding Risks and Returns in the Different Seasons of Our Economy

8 The New Millionaire Economy

Creating Wealth by Understanding the Rise in Mass Affluence

Epilogue

The Ultimate Bubble: Human Population Is Peaking After Thousands of Years of Exponential Growth

Index

Permissions Acknowledgments