Stephen Leeb has analyzed and identified macro-economic trends for more than three decades. He is a recognized authority on the stock market and commodities, especially oil and precious metals. He is often credited as the first to foresee market-changing events, and predicted the spiraling costs of oil well before others. Dr. Leeb has authored seven books, including the New York Times Bestselling Business Books, The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (2006), Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (2009), and the forthcoming Red Alert: How China's Growing Prosperity Threatens the American Way of Life (2011). He is also a frequent contributor to 'Fox Business News,' Bloomberg, ABC, and CNN. He serves as Head of the Advisory Board for Leor Exploration & Production, LLC, as an Advisory Board member of Electrum USA Ltd., one of the world's largest privately held gold exploration companies, and in the same capacity for Sunshine Silver Mines Corp., a privately held silver exploration company. Dr. Leeb received his bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He then earned his master's degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois in just three years, an academic record that still stands. Email this author.

Why The Run-Up In Gold Is Not A "Bubble"

As the price of gold continues to rise (gold topped $1,900 per ounce on Tuesday), there has been a lot more noise on the Internet and occasionally in other media warning about the run-up in gold prices being a financial “bubble.” This couldn’t be more wrongheaded.

Why The Run-Up In Gold Is Not A “Bubble”

As the price of gold continues to rise (gold topped $1,900 per ounce on Tuesday), there has been a lot more noise on the Internet and occasionally in other media warning about the run-up in gold prices being a financial “bubble.” This couldn’t be more wrongheaded.

Gold, Silver Investments Will Keep You From Getting Burned

Like many others, we keep watching the jittery European economic scene with a mixture of anxiety and fascination. From Greece and Ireland to Spain, Portugal and, most recently, Italy, the specter of sovereign debt default and its potentially horrific consequences continues to haunt Europe and the wider world beyond.