For more than 40 years, Bill Helming has been forecasting U.S. and global macroeconomic trends. He is an independent thinker and considered by many to be a futurist. Bill is a highly respected U.S. big picture economist and expert with one of the most accurate and impressive long-term forecasting, macro-economic and beef industry track records in the U.S. today. He accurately forecasted the 1981-82, 1990-91, 2000-01 and the 2008-09 recessions. In 1980-81, well in advance of these events happening, he forecasted the sharp decline in the farm economy and farm and ranch real estate prices, the substantial moderation in the long-term trend towards disinflation, plus lower trending crude oil prices and interest rates.