Audiobook Review
The world that author Harry S. Dent Jr. presents in his narration of The Roaring 2000s is one you'll want to live in: incredible interconnectivity between electronic devices, superfast jets, and computers that transmit video images, translate voice commands--everything except make omelets. Dent, who comes off like an accountant you'd trust with your last dime, makes the future sound so wonderful that you'll feel guilty listening to him talk about it on a low-tech cassette player. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --Lou Schuler


From Library Journal
Dent's previous book The Great Boom Ahead (Hyperion, 1993) accurately predicted the stock market boom of the 1990s. In this one, he looks ahead to the new millennium and claims that the Dow may reach as high as 35,000 within the next decade, due in large part to the changing demographics of baby boom investors.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From AudioFile
As the Dow rises and falls, Harry S. Dent, Jr., sees an affluent future for America and analyzes the impact of the Baby Boom generation on the stock market, predicting repercussions for the generation that follows. In a clear, concise voice, Dent brings his enthusiasm for investing wisely and profitably to the fore. Dent tempers the investing frenzy of the times with a rational investigation of trends, presenting sound investing strategies. M.B.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine


From Booklist
Dent has made his career from his rosy prognostications. He offered employment tips in Great Jobs Ahead: Your Comprehensive Guide to Surviving and Prospering in the Coming Work Revolution (1995) and provided business advice in The Great Boom Ahead: Your Comprehensive Guide to Personal and Business Profit in the New Era of Prosperity (1993). Now he turns his attention to investment strategies, predicting that the next 10 years will see the greatest boom in the history of this country and projecting the Dow stock-market average to reach a dizzying 21,500! Dent argues that these events are inevitable, the obvious results of demographic trends that determine economic, technological, and social changes. He looks at the information revolution and the Internet in particular and sees consumers finally warming to the idea of the electronic marketplace; he forecasts a mass migration to exurbia that will lead to a major real-estate boom; and he looks at the consequences of the networked corporation. Dent then looks at the implications these changes suggest for investment strategies. David Rouse

FROM THE PUBLISHER

One of the world's most prescient economic forecasters unveils his predictions for the beginning of 21st century -- and shows readers how we can take advantage of the unprecedented opportunities that will accompany the great financial boom to come. In The Roaring 2000s, Dent focuses on the full spectrum of changes that will follow in the wake of the burgeoning turn-of-the-century economy. According to Dent, how and where we work and live is about to change more drastically than at any time in our history due to the convergence of the mainstreaming of the Internet and other technologies, and the peak spending years of the aging baby boomers.

This will result in nothing less than the greatest boom in history and an unprecedented opportunity for investors and entrepreneurs, great buys in real estate, and a wealth of high-quality lifestyle choices for the savvy people who anticipate these changes. We will see such rapid and exciting change as we have not seen since the dizzying pace of the productivity revolution unleashed by the assembly line in the Roaring Twenties. Dent not only offers detailed investment strategies aimed at exploiting the coming boom for the next 15 years, but also explains future trends in the job market, technology, demographics, and real estate.

SYNOPSIS

Having already predicted changes in our economy and workplace with uncanny precision, Harry Dent now turns his exceptionally accurate and visionary eye toward our changes in lifestyle. In this fascinating audiobook, Dent will tell us the best places to live and work in the coming decades; he will identify the new boomtowns and reveal that real estate appreciation will concentrate in small towns and new growth cities. With The Roaring 2000's, he will secure his position as one of the world's most prominent and accurate forecasters of societal trends.

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