Dr. Shilling is President of A. Gary Shilling & Co., Inc., economic consultants, and publisher of INSIGHT, a monthly report of economic forecasts and investment strategy. He has also been a Forbes magazine columnist since 1983 and writes the “Financial Strategy” column. He is a ...more

Dr. Shilling is President of A. Gary Shilling & Co., Inc., economic consultants, and publisher of INSIGHT, a monthly report of economic forecasts and investment strategy. He has also been a Forbes magazine columnist since 1983 and writes the “Financial Strategy” column. He is a columnist for Bloomberg View, and is on Investment Advisor magazine’s panel of investment strategists. He appears frequently on business shows on radio and television. He is an experienced economist, consultant, speaker, TV and radio commentator, and writer. He is also an Investment Adviser Representative through Thornhill Securities, Inc. Dr. Shilling graduated from Amherst College AB in Physics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his MA and Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University. While on the West Coast, he served on the staffs of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Bank of America. Before establishing his own firm in 1978, Dr. Shilling was Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of White, Weld & Co. Earlier he set up the Economics Department at Merrill Lynch, at age 29, and served as the firm’s first chief economist. Prior to Merrill Lynch, he was with Standard Oil Co. NJ (now ExxonMobil).less