The Economic Warrior

Marc Pollick is an internationally recognized speaker, writer and consultant on philanthropy and charitable giving, who has guided the philanthropic efforts of an impressive clientele of celebrities, professional athletes, high net worth individuals and corporations. He has been featured and interviewed by a vast array of news, sports, entertainment and philanthropy media including ESPN, HBO Sports, Forbes, USA TODAY, and Foundation News and is a guest columnist on philanthropy for Sports Business Journal. Marc believes that everyone has an inherent desire to give back and leave some mark on society beyond fortune and fame. He is passionate about helping successful individuals identify and express that desire through consulting, mentoring and management of philanthropic assets.Prior to entering the philanthropic world, Marc had an extensive career in academic Holocaust Studies, working with 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Elie Wiesel. He was Founding Executive Director of the Zachor Institute for Holocaust Studies and founded The Elie Wiesel Institute for Humanitarian Studies. Marc has been recognized for his achievements as a recipient of the prestigious University of Chicago Alumni Award for Public Service. For more information about Marc Pollick and The Giving Back Fund, please visit www.givingback.org

James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (/ˈlɛnoʊ/; born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host. After doing stand-up comedy for years, he became the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 1992-2009. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00pm ET, also on NBC.

After The Jay Leno Show was cancelled in January 2010 amid a host controversy, Leno returned to host The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on March 1, 2010. He hosted his last episode of The Tonight Show on February 6, 2014. That year, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Since 2014, Leno has hosted Jay Leno's Garage. For years Jay Leno has been synonymous with comedy & late-night television, but unless you’ve been living under a rock, you also know that Jay’s true passion lies in anything that rolls, explodes or makes noise. Whether it’s the latest hyper-car, or a forgotten relic, over the years Jay has gathered a distinguished collection of automobiles & motorcycles.

Keeping a collection like Jay’s clean is no easy task. Some of his cars are being judged at car shows, while others he simply wants to take out for a drive & enjoy. Either way, the cars had to be kept clean. For more information, please visit https://www.lenosgarage.com

Chris Tobe's journey as the author of "Kentucky Fried Pensions" is the first public SEC whistleblower which attempted to use the new Dodd-Frank law to clean up the culture of cover-up and corruption in Kentucky Pensions. It explores the national links between corruption in investments via placement agents and corruption in underfunding that plague states like Illinois and Kentucky. Kentucky Fried Pensions explores the Kentucky Employee Retirement System (KERS) for State Workers as the worst funded state plan in the country (worse than any single IL plan) and how others can learn from its current death spiral. The book looks into the lack of transparency as evidenced by no disclosure of holdings in SAC Capital buried in a Blackstone fund for nearly a year after the scandal broke. It connects a placement agent network to New Mexico, California (CALPERS) Illinois, New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The book has received glowing reviews in Forbes and Public Sector Inc. and has made the non-fiction bestseller list in Kentucky This new and expanded 2nd Edition provides updated coverage of Kentucky's ongoing pension funding crises and provides comparison with those of Detroit and Rhode Island. Be sure to watch the PBS Special "The Pension Gamble" which aired in October 2018, where Tobe and other experts reveal the massive eventual meltdown in public pensions in places like Kentucky, Illinois, New Jersey, Conneticut and more. You may connect with Chris on Facebook, Kentucky Fried Pensions

Originally broadcast 10/31/18

Peter J. Van Hemel on class actions interviewed by Will Peirce

Terry Hayes interviewed by Will Peirce

Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is the editor of Mises Wire and The Austrian. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado, and was the economist for the Colorado Division of Housing from 2009 to 2014. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre. Ryan resides in Denver, Colorado and to contact Ryan directly you may use [email protected]. To find out more about the Mises Institute please visit www.mises.org

Ted Benna is commonly referred to as the “father of 401(k)” because he created and gained IRS approval of the first 401(k) savings plan. He has received many citations for his accomplishments including:

2001 National Jefferson Award recipient for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen,

2001 Player of the Year selected by Defined Contribution News,

one of eight individuals selected by Money Magazine for its special 20th Anniversary Issue Hall of Fame,

selected by Business Insurance as one the four People of the Century,

one of ten selected by Mutual Fund Market News for its special 10th Anniversary Issue Legends in Our Own Time and

Lifetime Achievement Award by Defined Contribution News 2005.

Ted has authored four books the latest of which is 401(k) for Dummies. Ted's latest book released in 2018 is "401(k)-Forty Years Later" and available on Amazon. As a way of giving back, Ted is contributing 50% of the net proceeds from the book to Compassion International www.compassion.org to help support disadvantaged children throughout the world. To find out more about Ted, please visit http://www.401kbenna.com

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 57 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. He began his professional career in 1960, at age 16, at the Humboldt Times in Eureka, while still attending high school, and turned down a National Merit scholarship to continue working as a journalist. At one point in his career, at age 22, he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor. The Hanford Sentinel was the first of three newspaper editor positions before joining the Sacramento Union’s Capitol bureau in 1975, just as Jerry Brown began his governorship. Walters later became the Union’s Capitol bureau chief, and in 1981 began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to California political, economic and social events. In 1984, he and the column moved to The Sacramento Bee. He has written more than 9,000 columns about California and its politics and his column has appeared in many other California newspapers. Walters has written about California and its politics for a number of other publications, including The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. In 1986, his book, “The New California: Facing the 21st Century,” was published in its first edition. He is also the founding editor of the “California Political Almanac,” the co-author of a book on lobbying entitled “The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento,” and contributed chapters to two other books, “Remaking California” and “The New Political Geography of California. He also has been a frequent guest on national television news shows, commenting on California politics. Dan can be reached at [email protected]

Scott Smith—Director Advice Relationships, Cerulli Associates

With more than 20 years of financial services industry experience, Scott leads Cerulli’s research efforts focused on investor behavior and advisory relationships. In his time at Cerulli he has authored more than two-dozen in-depth reports on topics ranging from investors’ risk preferences impression to the rise of digital advice platforms. His research helps Cerulli’s clients understand how to optimize their platforms given the evolving demand for financial advice.

Scott, who received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in Economics and his M.B.A. from Bryant University started his career on th front lines of client service at Putnam Investments, and now helps firms optimize their investor engagement strategies. To contact Scott call 617-437-1098x132 or email him at [email protected]

Ludovic Phalippou is the Author of the best seller Private Equity Laid Bare, and is a tenured faculty member of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He specialises in the areas of private equity that are of interest to investors in that asset class, such as fee tracking, interest alignment, and return benchmarking. Named as one of “The 40 Most Outstanding Business School Profs Under 40 in the World” in 2014, and as one of the 20 most influential individuals in private equity in Europe in 2016, Ludovic has strong links with senior practitioners in the industry, routinely speaks at practitioner conferences, and appears in the media internationally. Ludovic’s research papers have been widely cited in academia, in the press, and in regulatory circles. He worked with a number of large institutional investors on their private equity investment decision and benchmarking systems. At Oxford, Ludovic teaches asset management and private equity. Ludovic achieved a degree in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics; a Master in Economics and a Master in Mathematical Finance both from the University of Southern California; and a PhD in Finance from INSEAD. For more information about Professor Phalippou and his book, please visit www.pelaidbare.com