The Ultimate Money Guide for Bubbles, Busts, Recession, and Depression

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Among the nation's leading experts who can help you through bubbles, busts, recession, or depression, Martin D. Weiss, the founder and chairman of Weiss Ratings, Inc. is easily one of the most qualified.

During the stock market and housing bubbles of recent years, he consistently steered investors away from the dangers before the busts. And for the past two decades, he has specifically named—and publicly warned about—nearly every large financial failure in the United States, giving millions of Americans the opportunity to get their money to safety well ahead of time.

The New York Times wrote that Weiss was "the first to warn of the dangers and say so unambiguously." Separately, a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that Weiss far outperformed all of the nation's major rating agencies, including Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and A.M. Best, in warning of future life and health insurance company failures.

Separately, the Wall Street Journal reported that his company's stock ratings outperformed those issued by all brokers and independent research firms they covered, including JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Piper Jaffray, Credit Suisse First Boston, Smith Barney, S&P Equity Research, Morgan Stanley, and 14 others.

A key factor in Dr. Weiss's success is his devotion to empirical research and zero tolerance for bias, the reason Forbes named him "Mr. Independence" and Esquire wrote that he is one of the few who is "free of any possible ...