Stephen Leeb

In his latest book, China’s Rise and the New Age of Gold: How Investors Can Profit from a Changing World, published in 2020, Leeb chronicles and analyzes the global events, fluctuations in international currencies, market forces and economic trends which he predicts will result in a meteoric rise in the gold market.

Leeb currently heads the Leeb Group, a publisher of investment newsletters and services including The Complete Investor (general investing); Leeb's Real World Investing (commodities); and The Cash Cow (exchange-traded funds or ETFs). The Complete Investor was named the best financial/investing newsletter by the Software and Information Industry Association in the 2013 SIPAwards Competition.

Leeb is Head of the Advisory Board of Leor Exploration & Production LLC (since 2006) and a member of the advisory boards of Electrum USA Ltd. (since 2007) and Sunshine Silver Mines. Both companies explore for natural resources, especially precious metals and energy. In 2007 Leor sold assets to Canadian-based Encana Cp. for over $2.5 billion. He is also a member of the board and managing director of the PlainSight Group, an innovation company centered at Yale University.

In The Coming Economic Collapse, published in 2006, Leeb wrote that a decline in nominal home prices would be “the vicious circle to end all vicious circles……..It would be a far greater challenge than rescuing the economy in the wake of the tech bubble... It would take massive amounts of money. Interest rates would likely fall to zero. Government spending would need to reach unimaginably high levels.” Because of the potential consequences Leeb argued the Fed would prefer inflation rather than trying to cool an economy already stung by deflationary effects of high oil. In his subsequent book Red Alert, Leeb acknowledged he had been wrong to assume that the Federal Reserve "had the situation under control" and would "do whatever it took to assure that prices remained on an even keel."

Leeb has written eight books on macroeconomic trends, finance and investment, including the New York Times business bestseller The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel. Leeb's earlier book Defying the Market, which predicted the dot.com bubble's collapse, was named one of the best business books of 1999 by the Library Journal. His most recent book, titled Red Alert, has been called “a much needed shot in the arm for American complacency” by Publishers Weekly. Red Alert was awarded the 2012 Axiom Business Book Awards silver medal in the International Business/Globalization category.

Stephen Leeb (born July 14, 1946 in Chicago) is an American economist financial author, wealth manager, and publisher of a family of investment newsletters. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, NPR and Bloomberg TV, and has been called one of the country's foremost financial experts by Business journalist Charlie Gasparino and one of the greatest long term strategists of his generation by American billionaire businessman Thomas Kaplan which can be summarized by Kaplan's statement and foreword in Leeb's 2012 release of Red Alert saying "I would caution readers to dismiss Stephen Leeb's warnings only at their peril."