Stephen Leeb

Stephen Leeb, Ph.D. is the Chief Investment Strategist of The Complete Investor and Real World Investing.

Dr. Leeb’s books have been notable for predicting the secular bull market that started in the 1980s (Getting in on the Ground Floor, Putnam, 1986); the tech stock crash and rise of real assets, including oil and gold (Defying the Market: Profiting in the Turbulent Post-Technology Market Boom, McGraw-Hill, 1999); and the surge in oil prices (The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself and Profit from the Coming Energy Crisis, Warner Books, 2004). His national bestseller, The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (Warner Books, 2006), co-authored with Glen Strathy, outlined the biggest challenges facing the US economy, and accurately predicted the 2008 sub prime mortgage crisis as well as the vicious subsequent economic cycle requiring massive infusions of government stimulus, near zero interest rates and much higher federal debt levels. Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (Business Plus, 2009) predicted a permanent peak in global commodity production. Dr. Leeb’s eighth and latest book, Red Alert (Hachette, 2011), outlined China’s growing prosperity and the ways in which its demands on increasingly scarce resources threaten the American way of life.

Among his many speaking engagements, he has been the keynote speaker at both a JPMorgan Chase energy conference and a Royal Bank of Canada commodities conference.

Dr. Leeb received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. He then earned his master’s degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois in just three years, an academic record that stands to date. He is frequently quoted in the financial media, including Investors Business Daily, USA Today, Business Week, The New York Times, NPR and The Wall Street Journal. In addition, Dr. Leeb is a regular guest on Fox News, Bloomberg, CNN and Neil Cavuto.

Analyst Articles

And sometimes getting growth as well By Stephen Leeb In picking stocks for Growth Portfolio, we focus, no surprise, on a company’s growth potential. Specifically, projected growth must be at least 10 percent a year. (If growth drops below that for any pick, we’ll assess whether it’s a temporary setback… Read More

Leveraged to rising U.S. infrastructure spending By Stephen Leeb We’ve devoted a lot of ink to the world’s need for infrastructure. Virtually every major country around the globe can measure its infrastructure requirements in trillions of dollars. Even a country as developed as the U.S. has a multi-trillion-dollar need… Read More

Efficiently making you feel better indoors By Stephen Leeb In April we sold Monsanto via an email alert. The reason was the conclusion by leading cancer researchers that glyphosate, a critical ingredient in the company’s herbicide Roundup, is likely linked to cancer. Roundup, along with genetically modified crops, has… Read More

Even Congress may start to get it By Stephen Leeb  In his 1961 farewell address, President Eisenhower warned the nation to be alert to the potential threat to our freedoms from what he memorably termed the military-industrial complex.    We’d argue, however, that in the years since then, neither the military-industrial… Read More

Lifted by growing stakes in infrastructure By Stephen Leeb We’d bet that most people (especially anyone who’s ever listened to country music), if asked to blurt out the first thing they associate with “John Deere”, would come up with “tractor.” And Growth Portfolio’s Deere & Company is indeed the… Read More

Meanwhile, CB&I is finally hitting its stride By Stephen Leeb Call us boring, call us obsessive, but it won’t stop us: we’ll still keep talking about infrastructure (p.1). Here we review three Growth Portfolio picks that will be front and center in tackling America’s aging and inadequate infrastructure.  Two are… Read More

How to invest in cyber security By Stephen Leeb Computer hacking, and the enormous threat it poses to individuals, companies, and governments, is a big and ever-present downside to the Internet age. While egregious examples make headlines—including the recent hacking into the computers of Anthem, the country’s second-largest medical… Read More

It’s placing an encouraging new emphasis on security By Stephen Leeb This issue, as a kind of sidebar to our focus on cyber security (p.1), we’re spotlighting technology stock Cisco (Income/Value). The company has been a leader in Internet products such as routers and switches for more than 20 years,… Read More

Revamping on all levels to serve enterprise-wide needs By Stephen Leeb Most of our Growth picks have met or exceeded our expectations. But there has been one disappointment: American Express, which we are selling this issue.   One blow to the company is that its exclusive arrangement with Costco will… Read More

Health care stocks offer safety and growth By Stephen Leeb If volatility in stocks, bonds, and commodities is giving you a massive headache, one solution might be the right drugs—not to gulp down with a glass of water (though that might help, too) but to add to your portfolio.  That’s… Read More