Harry S. Dent Interviewed on Straight Talk Wealth

Harry S. Dent was interviewed on Straight Talk Wealth last week — follow link for the HD footage of the interviews.

Here's the summary of one-hour in-depth interview:

• Introduction about Harry's background, and the effectiveness of contrary thinking
• Is the government making things better?
• It's generational cycle of spending that is ending, and a cycle of saving beginning.
• Goes into much detail to explain how he conducts his forecasts (demographics and another indicators he uses) and why most other economists are wrong.
• The interviewer does a good job at asking HSDent to explain why he made a call for the Dow to reach 40,000 and why this forecast failed.
• Discusses past bubble, speculative behaviours
• Government's behaviour, their role in creating the bubbles and inflation
• His views on how to solve the crisis — write down the debt, deleverage. Along with some comments about what the government should do, but with which I do not agree as they are not based on free market principles.
• Why the Fed created bubble will pop and the markets crash
• Why we'll going to deflate, why deflation shouldn't hurt people, only creditors if they admitted they have to write down the debt.
• What will happen in the Eurozone with the current debt crisis: nothing will save Greece unless they write down the debt by at least 60%, no stimulus or bandaid will fix the problem.
• Doesn't like Treasuries, Silver, Gold (for the wrong reasons in my opinion).
• The healthcare and tax systems are so broken, they cannot be repaired, we need to start over from scratch.
• We'll have a major change in the next 10 years, almost as big as a new Constitution.
• We'll see the end of Keynesian economics (I would LOVE to see that happen).

The videos are embedded below:

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