Stephen Leeb

Stephen Leeb (born July 14, 1946 in Chicago, United States of America) is an American economist and author.

Biography and Education

Stephen Leeb is a financial author, wealth manager, and publisher of a family of investment newsletters. He is a recurring guest on CNN, FoxNews, NPR and Bloomberg TV, and has been called “one of the country's foremost financial experts.”^[1]

Leeb earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of Business, and a Masters in Mathematics and a Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Illinois.^[1] He authored research papers on psychology and statistics in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Reports.^[2][3] His graduate degrees were obtained in three years.

Stephen Leeb is married and lives in New York City, New York.

Career

Leeb has written eight books on macroeconomic trends, finance and investment, including the New York Times business bestseller The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel.^[4] Leeb's earlier book Defying the Market, which predicted the dot.com bubble's collapse, was named one of the best business books of 1999 by the Library Journal.^[5][6] His most recent book, titled Red Alert, has been called “a much needed shot in the arm for American complacency” by Publishers Weekly.^[7] Red Alert was awarded the 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards silver medal in the International Business/Globalization category.^[8]

Leeb is Head of the Advisory Board of Leor Exploration & Production LLC (since 2006) and a member of the advisory boards of Electrum USA Ltd. (since 2007) and Sunshine Silver Mines.^[9] Both companies explore for natural resources, especially precious metals and energy. In 2007 Leor sold assets to Canadian-based Encana Cp. for over $2.5 billion.^[10] He is also a member of the board and managing director of the PlainSight Group, an innovation company centered at Yale University.^[9]

Leeb currently heads the Leeb Group, a publisher of investment newsletters and services including The Complete Investor (general investing); Leeb’s Real World Investing (commodities); and The Cash Cow (exchange-traded funds or ETFs).^[9] The Complete Investor was named the best financial/investing newsletter by the Software and Information Industry Association in the 2013 SIPAwards Competition.^[11]

Predictions

Leeb accurately predicted $100-a-barrel oil,^[12] the Dow’s secular rise above 4000,^[13] the collapse of the dot.com bubble,^[14] and the current bull market in precious and industrial metals. In Defying the Market, published in 1999, he also predicted the inadequacy of computers for solving the major challenges of the subsequent decade, in particular resource scarcity.^[14]

In The Coming Economic Collapse, published in 2006, Leeb wrote that a decline in nominal home prices would be “the vicious circle to end all vicious circles……..It would be a far greater challenge than rescuing the economy in the wake of the tech bubble... It would take massive amounts of money. Interest rates would likely fall to zero. Government spending would need to reach unimaginably high levels.”^[15] Because of the potential consequences Leeb argued the Fed would prefer inflation rather than trying to cool an economy already stung by deflationary effects of high oil.

Leeb's most recent book Red Alert argues that the Chinese understand the issue of resource scarcity much better than the West and as a result of their accumulation of vital resources may leave the West in a nearly untenable position within the next decade.^[16]

Books

• Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life, with Gregory Dorsey (2011)
• Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (2009)
• The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel, with Glen Strathy (2006)
• The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis , with Donna Leeb (2004)
• Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom, with Donna Leeb (1999)
• The Agile Investor: Profiting from the End of Buy and Hold, with Roger S. Conrad (1997)
• Market Timing for the Nineties: The Five Key Signals for When to Buy, Hold and Sell, with Roger S. Conrad (1993)
• Getting in on the Ground Floor, with Donna Leeb (1986)

References

External links

• Stephen Leeb official website