The Economic Warrior

Steve has provided investment consulting service to wealthy investors and large pension funds since 1986. In 1992, he founded Piscataqua Research to provide asset allocation services and comparative data to pension funds and continues to provide investment supervisory and consulting services to clients with sizable assets. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

He graduated from the University of Chicago GSB in 1979 with an MBA in Finance. Prior to 1986, Steve was a pension and health actuary.

Founder of Piscataqua Research, Inc. which provides investment consulting services to wealthy investors and pension funds since 1986. His firm provides investment supervisory, investment management and investment consulting services to clients with sizable assets. Steve has been a consulting actuary for William Mercer in Boston MA, and Wilshire Associates of Santa Monica, California. He has also served as a senior consultant to large national and public pension funds. In this show we discuss Steve’s insight on debt based finance, and its consequences, which he calls Debtonomics. Located in Portsmouth, NH, you may find out more about Piscataqua Research by visiting www.piscataquaresearch.com.

Stephen Church

Piscataqua Research, Inc.

1 New Hampshire Avenue

Portsmouth, NH 03801

(603) 431-7872

Joe Eppy, CEO of The Eppy Group is one of the country's foremost financial advisors when it comes to the area of Special Needs planning. What is Special Needs Planning? For parents of a loved one with special needs, there is a poignant realization that there may come a time, through sickness, disability or death, when you will not be able to provide care for your loved one. Planning involves a broad range of decisions designed to help secure the future of loved ones with special needs. Located in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Joe Eppy and members of The Eppy Group are experts in potential government benefits, wills, health care surrogates, special needs trust and so on. To find out more about Joe Eppy and The Eppy Group please visit www.theeppygroup.com

Our very special guest will be Jay Childs, the Emmy award winning filmmaker who made the documentary "Food Fight" an incredible tale where Main St. wins over Wall St.The show streams worldwide on www.wscafm.org, and will be archived for your future listening pleasure at www.barryjamesdyke.com/economicwarrior.

To find out more about the movie, or Jay Childs, please visit www.jbccom.com , www.foodfightfilm.com

Steven Machat was born in Manhattan, New York. His father, entertainment lawyer Marty Machat was known for representing artists such as Phil Spector, Sam Cooke and The Rolling Stones. He attended University of Miami as an undergraduate, where he studied accounting, and then attended Vanderbilt University Law School Machat has been an worldwide entertainment attorney, music publisher, manager of music talent and record label owner as well as film producer among other commercial endeavors. His clients have included Electric Light Orchestra, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Ready for the World, Leonard Cohen, Phil Spector, Stacey Jackson, Snoop Dogg, New Edition, Bobby Brown, Manu DiBango and Rita Lee, new artists from Sweden, Yung Lean and The Sad Boys. In London, Machat wrote the book Gods, Gangsters and Honour. It was proclaimed by various English magazines as an insider's guide to the music industry.[citation needed] Machat wrote the book to share the light he discovered handling the careers of many of the top icons of the music industry. The first edition of the book was published in the UK by Beautiful Books Limited (UK) in August 2009 Machat lectured across Europe and the United Kingdom at universities, including both Oxford University and Cambridge University, as well as at musical festivals and book fairs. http://machat2018.com/

For over two decades P. Christopher Music, founder of Econologics Financial Advisors, has developed the subject of Econologics, as a new standard of financial planning technology using a more logical and scientific, results-based approach to solving the financial challenges of consumers. Drawn from an in-depth study of the basic fundamentals of financial prosperity from the greatest minds in history, the evolution of Econologics philosophy comes from 21 most common and repeated laws culminated from over 5000 years of financial documentation. Econologics could be considered the modern science of financial planning. This coined word is necessary to avoid confusion with what consumers believe is “financial planning,” since that concept has not been standardly defined or practiced in the financial advisory profession today. Briefly described, Econologics is an innovative financial planning and wealth preservation system designed to produce consistent results from household to household through the Econologics Road Map® Financial Plan: Results-Based Financial Planning® for Professionals and the Econologics Practice Max Value Plan: Results-Based Transition Planning® for Professionals and the Annual Road Map Renovation®: ARMoR program.https://econologicsfinancialadvisors.com/

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 many books the latest of which is soon to be released ; 40 Years Later, the 401(k)

Gretchen Morgenson graduated in 1976 from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota with a B.A. degree in English and History. She went to work as an assistant editor with Vogue magazine, eventually becoming a writer and financial columnist. In 1981 she co-authored the book The Woman's Guide to the Stock Market and that same year joined the Wall Street stockbrokerage, Dean Witter Reynolds where she remained until January 1984. She returned to writing on financial matters at Money magazine and in late 1986 accepted an offer from Forbes magazine to work as an editor and an investigative business writer. In mid-1993, she left Forbes magazine to become the executive editor at Worth magazine but in September 1995 took on the job of press secretary for the Presidential election campaign of Steve Forbes following which she was appointed assistant managing editor at Forbes magazine In May 1998 Gretchen Morgenson became the assistant business and financial editor at The New York Times. She has written about the conflicts of interests between financial analysts and their employers who generate income money from the companies that the analysts assess. Beginning in 2005, Morgenson has been focusing on executive compensation packages being paid by American companies that she asserts have reached levels far in excess of what can be justified to shareholders. In 2006, Morgenson broke a story about a Wall Street analyst (Matthew Murray) who was fired shortly after he reported emails to Congress concerning potential violations of SEC regulation AC by the investment bank (Rodman & Renshaw) that he worked for at the time. The emails allegedly documented that the investment bank wouldn't let the analyst lower his rating, or have his name removed from coverage, of an investment banking client. A subsequent article by Morgenson highlighted a letter she obtained from the Senate Finance Committee in which Senator Grassley stated that the investment bank's Chairman (General Wesley Clark) had acknowledged to his staff that the analyst had been fired from the investment bank as a result of reporting the emails to Congress.[5] In 2009, The Nation called Morgenson "The Most Important Financial Journalist of Her Generation".In 2002 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. She has appeared on Bill Moyers Journal and Charlie Rose. In November 2017 Gretchen joined the Wall Street Journal as a senior special writer working closely with reporters on issues regarding on money, investing and other financial issues.

Terry Cook has been a successful financial manager for several decades and now lives in North Carolina. Terry grew up on a farm in Iowa, and will share with us the story of how his father saved the family farm by using life insurance cash values to provide credit for the family business during a very difficult time. As well as being a successful regional vice president for a major life insurance company today, Terry is also a Mormon and accomplished author. To find out more about his recently published books, please visit

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You can also contact him directly via email: [email protected], or telephone directly (704)771-9541.

W. Patrick Hughes is a former American football linebacker who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the New York Giants and the New Orleans Saints. He played college football at Boston University. Hughes was an outstanding high school athlete and was drafted by the New York Mets. He originally signed to attend Ohio State but instead was pushed to West Point. In order to gain entrance into West Point he was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy. He left after a few weeks and ended up at Boston University. He captained the BU team in 1969 and, along with Bruce Taylor, led the Terriers to the only Bowl game in their history.

Patrick Hughes has served as the President and CEO of Fallon Health since 2010. He began his career at Fallon in 2007, as the company's Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing and Sales Officer. In 2009, the membership of Fallon Health grew to its highest level under Hughes' leadership. In addition to his leadership at Fallon Health, Mr. Hughes is also the Chairman of the board of directors of UltraBenefits, Inc., and of Home Staff LLC. He is the Vice Chairman of the Massachusetts Association of Health Plans in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also on the board of directors of the Alliance Community Health Plans in Washington, D.C., the New England Council, and the Worcester Bureau. Mr. Hughes' long career as a healthcare executive includes achieving unprecedented growth and profitability at Blue Cross Blue Shield. He has also served as a principal at Hughes and Company, a brokerage firm in New Hampshire. He graduated from Boston University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science Degree. . Mr. Hughes and his wife Carole, who live in Stratham, New Hampshire have established two endowed scholarships at Curry College to honor the memory of their son, Justin P. Hughes, a 1996 Curry College graduate.

Joe Sabah has been helping people get known through speaking and publishing for 40 years. After he and Judy Sabah wrote their book entitled How to Get the Job You Really Want and Get Employers to Call You, he was looking for a way to market the book most effectively. ​ The How to Get on Radio Talk Shows Without Leaving Your Home or Office system is the result of his experience. Joe is a nationally recognized speaker, consultant, author and publisher. He lives in Denver, Colorado where he operates a speaking, publishing, and consulting business. A 30 + year member of the National Speakers Association, in 1982 Joe served as founding president and co-founder with Judy Sabah of the Colorado Speakers Association, now NSA Colorado, a chapter of the National Speakers Association. He also served as president of the Colorado Independent Publishers Association for two and half years. ​ Beginning his journey in the field of promotion as Regional Vice President of the American Motivational Association in Northern California, Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado, his Sales Congresses traditionally exceeded 1,200 seminar attendees. He sponsored and promoted congresses that included speakers: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Cavett Robert, Og Mandino, Ira Hayes, Marilyn Van Derbur and Zig Ziglar. ​ He has been actively involved with the Dale Carnegie Courses in Ohio, Washington DC, Northern California and Denver, Colorado. ​ Joe has been a guest on 723 Radio Talk Shows. ​ Contact Joe by phone at 303/722-7200.