A. Gary Shilling, Ph.D., is president of A. Gary Shilling & Company, Inc., an economic and investment consultancy. A regular columnist for Forbes, Dr. Shilling is one of the nation's top-ranked economists and commodity trading advisors. He has led the crowd in predicting a number of economic turnarounds, including the 1970s recession and the demise of inflation a decade later. Dr. Shilling is a board member for a number of financial organizations, a columnist for standard & Poor's CreditWeek, and appears frequently on business radio and television shows. He wrote Is Inflation Ending? Are You R...