New Era of Wealth

Brian Wesbury's keen insight and sage advice put the stock market boom of the late 1990s into perspective. But more than a book about riding the wave, Wesbury shared with readers the four key principles that would continue to rule the stock market well into the 21st century. In The New Era of Wealth, Brian Wesbury explains the five key trends that created the boom - and will sustain economic growth for the future. Wesbury shows how understanding these trends will provide more investment ideas than any one individual could implement - and how understanding them will help investors avoid making huge mistakes with their money. In simple language, Wesbury, at once opinionated and optimistic, offers investment strategies for creating personal wealth in the years ahead. Invest in equities: The risk of investing in stocks will decline; Invest in bonds: When inflation is non-existent, even low yields provide a very high real interest rate; Trust serendipity: A dynamic economy increases opportunity; Wesbury employs a common sense economic approach to show how optimism is rewarded today will be in the future.He shares the tool that made him the top economist of 2001 and helps investors cut through the information overload to focus on only the most important data by explaining the investment implications for stocks, mutual funds, bonds, real estate, and commodities. With a new introduction by the author, the five key economic trends outlined in The New Era of Wealth and the investing strategies they spawn will help investors profit today and in the years to come.

"Investors who take the time to read The New Era of Wealth will walk away wealthier for having done so." Investor's Business Daily; "The book's added value lies in the time it takes to lay out the ideas that got us to the roaring '90s. Important thoughts to keep in mind as markets grow frothier and we enter an election year." The Wall Street Journal

Brian S. Wesbury was named the top economist of 2001 by The Wall Street Journal. He is Vice President and Chief Economist at Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson in Chicago. He is the former Chief Economist for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress where he was responsible for policy analysis, research, and management of the economics staff. In 1998, Wesbury was named no.3 on the list of top economic forecasters in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal, and he was the winner of the Bond Buyer Interest Rate Forecasting Survey in 1994 and 1997. Mr. Wesbury earned his B.A. in Economics at the University of Montana and his MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He has been a featured speaker at state banking associations and has made numerous appearances on CNN, CNBC, CBS Newsradio in Chicago, and PBS. His work and comments have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, Investor's Business Daily, Business Week, Forbes, and U.S. News & World Report. His regular monthly column The Outlook appears in The American Spectator magazine. Hometown: Downers Grove (Chicago), Illinois