
The Demographic Cliff

The old-fashioned way of making money on real estate (i.e., the Monopoly game) is back. You don’t buy it for appreciation—you buy it for the rents.
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
Free-market capitalism rewards those who produce and innovate the most, as does nature with its survival-of-the-fittest drive.
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
This messing with Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” means you need to prepare for the worst downturn and crash of your lifetime, which I predict will arrive by late 2015.
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
The economic truth is that you can’t have success without failure, you can’t have accountability without consequences. Governments are eliminating these crucial factors to give short-term relief, at the expense of killing long-term growth and innovation.
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
You can’t learn through success and growth alone. Such people and businesses only get more complacent and overconfident, and then make huge mistakes or become blind to threats and opportunities. Without disruptive entrepreneurs and economic challenges, businesses, countries, people, and species don’t grow and evolve effectively. Why do you think th
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driven overbuilding boom in modern history, and it will see the greatest bubble burst over the next several years . . . mark my words on this!
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
Download my unpublished chapter on “The Great China Bubble” at www.harrydent.com/unpublished.
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
The top consumer markets ahead for the larger, aging Baby Boom generation are: 1. Discretionary health care and wellness 2. Nursing home and assisted living facilities 3. Health and life insurance 4. Retirement and financial planning 5. Home maintenance services
Harry S. Dent Jr. • The Demographic Cliff
Trends get very favorable and then everyone wants to retire on them through speculation. China is the greatest bubble I have ever seen, as its government has driven its economy for decades solely through massive overbuilding.