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MARKETS, POLITICS

Gary Shilling

Columnist,

Forbes

  • Bloomberg: His Call to Buy Treasurys “Best Call of Past 20 Years”
  • Predicted the Late 2000s Subprime Housing Crash
  • In Late 1970s, Predicted the End to Raging Inflation

About Gary

A. Gary Shilling, PhD, is an economic consultant and investment adviser, as well as a long-time columnist for Forbes magazine. He is president of A. Gary Shilling & Co., Inc., an investment adviser, and publishes A. Gary Shilling's INSIGHT, a monthly report of economic forecasts and investment strategy. Dr. Shilling is a columnist for Bloomberg View online. He has authored eight books, his newest and best-selling is The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation.

Gary's Videos

The Fed and other major central banks have panicked, abandoning their 2% inflation targets and slashing their policy rates in view of sluggish economics, weakening labor markets, the East Coast dock strike, and growing Middle East problems. Interest rate cuts have fueled equities but probably come too late to forestall further economic weakness.

A US recession remains a distinct possibility. If it unfolds, a normal 30% drop in average equity prices would be likely. With declining inflation and their safe-haven appeal, Treasury bonds would benefit, as would the dollar. 

During this session, Dr. Gary Shilling will discuss the 12 important changes for the economy and investors.
When it comes to trade, the U.S. is the buyer and China is the seller. This puts the U.S. in a stronger position, however, Chinese President Xi does not face re-election
Garry Schilling discusses trading fixed income in a world with inverted yield curves and negative yields.

Gary's Books

Gary Shilling

Deflation: Strategies for Building Wealth in the Coming Wave of Deflation

DEFLATION sounds a clarion call for forward-thinking investors everywhere. A. Gary Shilling—the influential forecaster and FORBES columnist who is consistently ranked among the leaders by THE WALL STREET JOURNAL and who has twice been voted Wall Street's top economist in INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR'S poll of financial institutions—lays out the case for why deflation lies ahead, how it will affect your investments, business, and personal affairs, and outlines the steps
Gary Shilling

The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation

While many investors fear a rapid rise in inflation, author Gary Shilling, an award-winning economic forecaster, argues that the global economy is going through a long period of de-leveraging and weak growth, which makes deflation far more likely and a far greater threat to investors than inflation. Shilling explains in clear language and compelling logic why the world economy will struggle for several more years and what investors can do to protect and grow their wealth in<