1. Robert C Beckman was an American investment adviser, commentator, and author, who achieved fame in the United Kingdom in the 1980s through his media appearances and his books The Downwave and Into the Upwave.
13 Facts About Bob Beckman
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Robert Beckman was born in New York on August 25,1934.
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Bob Beckman's family were poor but he managed to earn a degree in economics.
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Bob Beckman had an early career as a banker and stockbroker on Wall Street in the 1950s.
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Bob Beckman later claimed to have made a million dollars by the age of 26, and to have lost it all by the age of 27.
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In 1963, Bob Beckman moved to the United Kingdom where he began advising on investments and bought the Investors' Bulletin newsletter in 1968 when it had just 12 subscribers.
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On one occasion, according to Bob Beckman, William snatched the chart for Hammerson from his hand and tore it to pieces which Bob Beckman took as a sell signal.
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Bob Beckman began a regular morning investment segment on LBC radio, which he held for 12 years, and appeared on TV-am.
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In 1983, Bob Beckman appeared in the television film Prophet of Doom.
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In 1991, Bob Beckman was warned by his professional regulator, FIMBRA, after the Board of Deputies of British Jews complained to them about an article in his newsletter titled "The Zionist Factor", which claimed that the two World Wars and the first Gulf War were caused by a Jewish conspiracy of American and German bankers.
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Bob Beckman was consistently pessimistic about the outlook for the stock market and British house prices.
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Bob Beckman followed this up with recommendations for how to beat the coming depression and a history of financial crashes.
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Bob Beckman was often said to be a Cassandra for prophesying doom, but he told The Times in April 1987 that he was simply a realist who believed that wealth could not come against a background of high unemployment and global economic stagnation.