Harry Dent popularized age-wave investing among individual investors with his 1993 best-selling book, The Great Boom Ahead.

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Harry Dent, the futurist who predicted a Dow of 32, 000 in his 1999 bestseller The Roaring 2000s, is back.

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Then in 1998 a futurist named Harry Dent , in a book called The Roaring 2000s, took a similar tack.

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Harry Dent pitched in with a bestseller called The Roaring 2000s.

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But it was the efforts of party operatives like Lee Atwater and Harry Dent that not only created the South Carolina primary in 1980 but also made sure it was the first test in the South.

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Harry S. Dent Jr. made a name for himself with his 1993 book The Great Boom Ahead, which predicted with spooky accuracy everything from the rise of designer pizza chains to the decline in mortgage rates.

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