Economist Gary Shilling has agreed to share with BloggingStocks his 18 investment strategies for 2011, beginning with Gary Shilling's Investment Strategies for 2011. But he will only be revealing them a little at a time, over the next few weeks, so check back often!

My investment strategies for 2011 are driven by my forecasts for the economies and financial markets here and abroad. In my view, the overarching reality that will dominate 2011 and, indeed, the next decade or so is financial deleveraging, as spelled out in my new book, The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation, which was published in November 2010 by John Wiley & Sons.

Sometimes there is an article in a newspaper that's so great that it's worth doing a post on just so that more people will see it, and no additional commentary is really necessary. Whitney Tilson's tips for value investors in these weekend's Financial Times is such a piece.

For the uninitiated, Whitney Tilson is one of the great value investing minds of our time. He's also a heck of a good guy: He's one of the founders of Teach For America, and I'm an eager reader of anything that he has to say.

For more information about how to implement the investment strategies discussed in his latest column, I recommend the following books:

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits. If there's an award for the most informative book with a clunky, annoying title, I nominate this Joel Greenblatt masterpiece. It's focused on special situations such as spin-offs and bankruptcy investing, which are both featured in Tilson's list of tips.

Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation. Whether you like it or not, almost all value investing seems to have a contrarian angle: You're buying stocks that you think the market is pricing inaccurately. David Dreman makes a compelling case for contrarian investing, and shows how you might be able to beat the market.

The NASDAQ received SEC approval to increase its listing fees and add services. The company will begin providing new-release distribution and internet broadcasts at no extra charge. Listing fees will rise with the largest increase from $75K to $95K per year for companies with more than 150 million shares outstanding. Companies with 50 to 75 million shares will only see a 1.2% increase.

While the rise in fees is modest and barely news, it is a sign of changes in the public markets. With listing fees running into the high 5 figures (and more for some companies), the high costs of shareholder communications, and the additional expense of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, being a public company is extremely expensive. I think it's one of the reasons that private equity will continue to boom: Taking a company private slashes a ton of costs just by removing the glare that comes with being public. Managers may also be getting fed up. According to a piece from Reuters: