The Economic Warrior

Nell Minow is Vice Chair of ValueEdge Advisors. She was Co-founder and Director of GMI Ratings from 2010 to 2014, and was Editor and Co-founder of its predecessor firm, The Corporate Library, from 2000 to 2010. Prior to co-founding The Corporate Library, Ms. Minow was a Principal of Lens, a $100 million investment firm that took positions in underperforming companies and used shareholder activism to increase their value. Her other professional experience includes serving as a Principal of Lens Investment Management, as President of Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc., and as an attorney at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Department of Justice. Ms. Minow was named one of the 30 most influential investors of 2002 by Smart Money magazine and, in 2003, was dubbed “the queen of good corporate governance” by Business Week online. In 2007 she was named as one of the 20 most influential people in corporate governance. In 2008 she was the sole recipient of the International Corporate Governance Network award for exceptional achievement in the field of corporate governance. She has authored over 200 articles and co-authored three books on corporate governance with Robert A.G. Monks, most recently the 5th edition of an MBA textbook titled Corporate Governance, published in 2011. Ms. Minow is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago Law School.

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Kevin McKinney is a documentary film maker based in Kansas City. On his movie Corporate FM, Charles Ferruzza, Broadcaster and host, Anything Goes, KKFI said“Corporate FM is a riveting — and terrifying — look at the profit-driven behind-the-scenes machinations of corporate-controlled broadcast media. It’s something out of George Orwell.” -Robert Butler, Butler’s Cinema Scene said,“..an extremely effective summation of how we got into this mess and how we might get out of it.” Janine Jackson | Counterspin said "Corporate FM is part murder mystery, part love letter to the key community resource that local [commercial] radio used to be.” Want to know why Main Street media is such a waste land? Kindly visit https://fmfilm.com or email Kevin McKinney at [email protected] today.

Wm Paul Young by The Economic Warrior

John is a renown British economist and a visiting Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times. In 2012 he presented a substantial report to the British government as to how to reform equity markets. From his office at St. John’s College, Oxford, England, we discuss his most recent and controversial book, Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance released in 2015. We discuss the epidemic of corruption in equity markets from Wall St. and the City of London, and how financiers profit immensely trading with each other, which does little good for society as a whole.  To find out more about John and his landmark works, and why he is one of Britain’s leading economists, please visit www.johnkay.com

I am fascinated by creating and building things. I'm a musician, and have been my entire life, so producing content is second nature. But a problem exists the moment something new is conceived: How do we get it to the people who would enjoy experiencing it?

For me, there is no difference between creating art and creating a product. The inspiration that leads to each comes from the same source; innate human ingenuity. And I believe art and products have the same goal. Whether a song, a painting, a sculpture, software, or a widget, all are more than just "things", they are conversations between the people that created them, and the people that experience them. If the conversation doesn't happen, the idea fails.

Those that create are inspired by what's missing, and those that experience want something valuable. The question is, how do we connect creators with the people who will most value their creations? That, my friends, is why companies are built. From bands to bakeries, we group together to build the systems that deliver our products, and I have experience in every part of it, from conception to operations and marketing.

I have run large organizations, and built my own. I'm currently managing marketing projects that range from producing online educational curricula, to marketing videos, and B2B lead generation. I also provide voiceover services for a number of clients, because apparently I can rock a mic. But most of all, each creation is uniquely valuable, and deserves a unique approach to connecting it to the world. I'm good at finding it. To find out more about Matt Carano visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-carano/ or https://twitter.com/matthewcarano, or [email protected], tel: 603-767-8000

Michael Thaler, Effective Ministries by The Economic Warrior

Advantage Compendium Ltd. is led by Jack Marrion, providing research and consulting services to insurance companies and financial firms in a variety of annuity areas. He is the Director of Research for the National Association of Fixed Annuities. He also serves as a Research Fellow at Webster University.

In 1996 he produced the first independent hypothetical return monthly publication comparing all index annuities on the market, and created the quarterly Advantage Index Product Sales & Market Report in 1997 that was the first comprehensive report of index annuity sales, products and trends. In 2015 he created volcontrol.com, a subscription site showing the specifications and returns of volatility controlled indices used in the fixed index annuity world.  

Regulators frequently quote from his research; he is frequently referenced or sourced in SEC rule filings relating to annuities, as well as working as a court certified expert witness on annuities. He has conducted a broad scope of research ranging from the behavioral reasons why consumers buy or don't buy financial products to suitability and complaint trends to future annuity distribution impact models.

His insights on the annuity and retirement income world have appeared in hundreds of publications. In 2006 the National Association of Insurance Commissioners asked him to address their annual meeting and teach regulators the realities of index annuities. He was invited back in 2009 to talk to the NAIC about the effects of aging on senior decision-making. In 2015 he spoke to NAIC members on volatility controlled indices. He is a frequent speaker at industry functions and provides the monthly Annuity Perspectives newsletter to National Association for Fixed Annuities (NAFA) members. Best’s Review said he was likely to affect the course of the industry.

Prior to forming Advantage Compendium Dr. Marrion was president and owner of an NASD broker/dealer with offices in nine states, and formerly vice president of a life insurance company and previously vice president of an NYSE investment banking firm. He has a BBA from the University of Iowa, an MBA from the University of Missouri and his doctorate from Webster University in the area of cognitive bias in decision-making formed a new paradigm in the development of retirement income products. Neither Jack Marrion nor Advantage Compendium sell or endorse any financial product.

Contact Information        P.O. Box 3308 * McKinney TX 75070         314-255-6531        [email protected] or check out the website http://www.advantagecompendium.com/index.htm.

Nancy Risley, BCPP, RPE  is a gifted healer whose advanced understanding of energy systems has created the basis for the work done at the Spa Tech Institute. From her well developed intuitive and perceptual abilities came the guidance and desire to enter into the healing field in 1970. She studied bodywork and bio-dynamic nutrition in Europe as well as astrology, psychic development, and conscious channeling. She had a successful private practice, first as a massage therapist and then as a Polarity therapist, that was booked up many months in advance.

The Polarity Realization Institute and Spa Tech Institute were born from the constant interest of her clients who wanted to understand the work she was doing. Over years of learning, doing sessions and teaching, Nancy developed an extensive understanding of the healing process. This base of knowledge of the healing principles of self-realization and transformation are reflected in her unique approach as taught in all of the programs at the institute. She continues to build on this knowledge and develop more profound ways of working with energy as well as training others to do the same.After years of practicing and perfecting this work she is now documenting a vast body of knowledge as well as training teachers to bring it into the world. Her pioneering work with RYSE is based on her years of training and helping energy workers and therapists to reach their highest potential. For more information on Nancy Risley and Spa Tech Institute please visit www.spatech.edu  or call 978-356-0414 in Ipswich, Massachusetts You can also visit http://www.transformationalhealingcenter.com which is located in East Thetford, Vermont

Bob Hydeman by The Economic Warrior

Gretchen Morgenson, an assistant business and financial editor and a columnist at The New York Times, has covered the world financial markets for The Times since May 1998. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her “trenchant and incisive” coverage of Wall Street.

Ms. Morgenson is a financial journalist with Wall Street experience.  Her stint as a stockbroker at Dean Witter Reynolds in New York in the early 1980s gives her stories a depth of knowledge and skepticism uncommon to financial reporting.

Upon graduation from Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., in 1976, Ms. Morgenson began her career as an editorial assistant at Vogue magazine. After spending two and a half years on Wall Street, she covered the financial world during stints at Money magazine, Worth magazine and Forbes Magazine.

Ms. Morgenson is the author, with Joshua Rosner, of “Reckless Endangerment,” a New York Times best seller about the origins of the 2008 financial crisis published in May 2011 by Times Books. She is also the author of “Forbes Great Minds of Business,” a book of five interviews with business leaders published in 1997 by John Wiley & Sons. She is the author, with Campbell R. Harvey, of “The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing” (2002).

In 2009, Ms. Morgenson won a Gerald Loeb Award in the “Beat Writing” category in her coverage of Wall Street. This followed her Gerald Loeb Award for excellence in financial commentary in 2002 and the American University School of Communication’s Annual Journalism Award for excellence in personal finance reporting in 2000. Ms. Morgenson has also served on two Pulitzer Prize juries, evaluating investigative reporting entries in 2009 and 2010.

To find out more about Gretchen, please visit www.nytimes.com/by/gretchen-morgenson.