Harry S. Dent, Jr. is the bestselling author of The Demographic Cliff, The Sale of a Lifetime, The Great Depression Ahead, and many other books. He is the founder of Dent Research, which publishes the newsletters Economy & Markets, Boom & Bust, and The Leading Edge, among many others. He has an MBA from Harvard, consulted for Fortune 100 companies while at Bain & Company, and lectures widely.