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The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 330.900112
EAN: 9780446699006
ISBN: 0446699004
Label: Business Plus
Manufacturer: Business Plus
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: February 21, 2007
Publisher: Business Plus
Studio: Business Plus
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Editorial Review:
Stephen Leeb shows how hard times can be a boon for smart investors. As the world faces an energy crisis of unprecedented scope, renowed economist Stephen Leeb shows how surging oil prices will contribute to an economic collapse. With meticulous research and analysis, Leeb shows that due to strong competition from India and China, prices could soon double, a cost for which most countries and investors are ill-prepared. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Leeb not only shows how this crisis will affect consumers, but how savvy investing can turn these dire times into financial gain.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great advice when published
I read this book when it came out in hardback a few years back. It was great advice then, but I am not sure if I would recommend it now. It may be too late to take advantage of the advice, most of which has already come true.
Rating: - Collapsing Now?
They were calling Stephen Leeb 'the $100 a barrel man' when he first predicted this phenomena a few short years ago. Now he's looking at $200 and the mainstream media oil and finance pundits are slowly catching up with him. He is one of a number of writers who are warning that we are now in for an increasingly difficult times economically and that there are ways to benefit from the downturn. He is scathing of Wall Street and associated group think and warns against the herd instinct.
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Rating:  - starts strong, then falters
"The Coming Economic Collapse" starts with a fairly concise review of the coming decline in availability of fossil fuels. The author, Stephen Leeb, summarizes the inevitable stresses in society that will occur when we no longer have cheap energy. This summary gives a much needed warning about how unpleasant life may become if we pursue our current fuel-guzzling ways.
After a good start, though, the rest of the book falters dramatically. The author spends countless pages giving advice ... Read More
Rating: - I hesitiate to give it even 3 stars,
but the book does contain information that is provocative and worth consideration.
The writing can best be described as "lazy." If I were reviewing just on the merits of the writing, this book would get 1 star. There is no excuse for anyone to put a literary product on the market that is as shabbily written as this one is.
For starters, Dr. Leeb switches voice four times throughout the book. He starts out with "I," then abruptly begins speaking as "we" on page 13, right in ... Read More
Rating:  - Collapse This!
If you accept Mr Leeb's apocalyptic Peak Oil scenario and the possibly imminent "collapse of civilization," then the investment advice he offers seems oxymoronic. All the money in the world won't save you when the barbarians are at the gates. (Well, unless maybe you had the foresight and wherewithal to buy a big spread in Paraguay.)
However, not to despair. Mr Leeb's argument is predicated on several faulty assumptions:
1) That oil production has peaked and therefore cannot keep ... Read More
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