The Economic Warrior

David M. Walker Former Comptroller of the U.S. by The Economic Warrior

Walter Cronkite said that "Project Censored" is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism. Project Censored is a media research, education, and advocacy initiative started at Sonoma State University in 1976.It is currently housed at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California. Project Censored was founded by Carl Jensen to expose censorship in propaganda and mass media. The current director is Mickey Huff. For more about Project Censored please visit www.projectcensored.org

Robert Castiglione is one of the most insightful and scientific thinkers in financial planning in America today. As founder of The Leap System, Bob started his career studying economics at New York University, and later was a professional baseball player for the Minnesota Twins, and the Atlanta Braves. Sideline with injuries and an appendectomy, Bob would go on to help thousands of planners across the U.S. and help them develop successful financial lives. For more about the Leap System, please visit www.leapsystem.com

Leon G. Cooperman is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Omega Advisors, a private investment partnership he organized in 1991. Previously, he spent 25 years with Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and served as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. While at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Cooperman was voted the number one portfolio strategist in the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team survey for nine consecutive years. This remarkable accomplishment solidified his reputation as the most incisive analyst on Wall Street. At Omega Advisors, he has brought the same thoughtfulness and dedication to managing portfolios, and now oversees in excess of $3.5 billion in assets, resulting in his renown as one of America’s most influential investors. In 2013, Mr. Cooperman was inducted into Alpha Magazine’s Hedge Fund Hall of Fame, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Horatio Alger Association.

Not content to rest on professional success, Mr. Cooperman has devoted his time and efforts to various charitable causes. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a member of the investment committee of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and board chairman of Green Spaces, a committee organized to rebuild parks in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Cooperman is chairman emeritus of the Saint Barnabas Development Foundation.

The mission of Cooperman College Scholars is to help highly motivated, academically talented, under-represented students thrive in college. We place students in challenging, well-matched environments with solid support systems, and we eliminate the pressures of insufficient financial aid which can negatively affect student retention and graduation. For more information on the Cooperman College Scholars program, please visit www.coopermanscholars.org

Thomas Cox who will tell us about his role in uncovering the Robo-signing scandal. His work might be the only pushback to the orgy of fraud that caused the Great Recession.  His foreclosure defense work is resulting in some families having their court cases dismissed, so rather than getting kicked out of their homes, they end up owning their homes free and clear!

David Enrich is former European Banking Editor for The Wall Street Journal. He was responsible for coordinating the Journal’s coverage of banking and regulatory policy across Europe.Mr. Enrich has received numerous journalism awards, including in 2012 an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of the European financial crisis and a George Polk Award for coverage of insider trading. Mr. Enrich was part of teams of Journal reporters who were finalists for Pulitzer Prizes in 2009 and 2011.. In 2013, Enrich became the news. On October 17 of that year, a British judge ordered David and the Wall Street Journal to comply with a request by the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office prohibiting the newspaper from publishing names of individuals in the government's ongoing investigation into alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate. David was threatened with jail if he disobeyed. In 2016, returned to New York from London, and wrote his book  "The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Math Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History", and was published in March 2017 to critical acclaim. National Review called The Spider Network "a nonfiction epic...an engrossing, entertaining tale." Bloomberg Businessweek called it an "exhaustively reported tale" and author Harlan Coban praised it as a "terrific nonfiction book." The New York Times called it a "vivid depiction of the ethos of the core financial institutions upon which the global economy depends." CNBC and the FT recommended the book as one of their summer reads. It was also shortlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.A native of Lexington, Massachusetts, in September this year he left the Wall St. Journal and became the Business Day Financial Editor of The New York Times. We are pleased to have David, a truth teller of the first order on The Economic Warrior Show. To contact David further, contact: [email protected]

Data released by the US Census Bureau finds that New Hampshire’s poverty rate declined to 8.2 percent in 2015, a drop of one percent since 2014. New Hampshire once again ranked first for the lowest state poverty rate in the country.

“While New Hampshire maintains the lowest poverty rate in the nation at 8.2 percent, this figure demonstrates that there are still far too many Granite State families struggling to achieve economic stability,” said John F. Shea, executive director of the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute in September 2016.

The seacoast of New Hampshire, which is one of the most affluent communities in the United States, is also an area where families and individuals struggle to survive. Amongst immense wealth, there is also abject poverty. Though hard to believe, hundreds of families in the NH and southern Maine seacoasts do not have enough to eat. We all need to know about this problem which troubles so much of America.

Wednesday September 13, 2017. The show streams worldwide at www.wscafm.org, and will be archived on www.barryjamesdyke.com.

Our special guest will be Patrick Greenish, a good friend and former corporate executive who runs the food pantry for St. Vincent de Paul in Hampton, NH. For over 25 years, St Vincent has provided food assistance to local families from our pantry and seasonal kitchen on Hampton Beach. St. Vincent de Paul also provides clothing, and modest financial assistance for essentials like rent and utilities. In the past year our food pantry provided over 9,149 meals to over 3,778 clients. A third of these clients were children. St. Vincent de Paul's community kitchen continues to serve hundreds weekly from May through October. The kitchen served over 1,500 meals to the needy.

Jerry Robinson is an economist, veteran trend trader, best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur. Although he has never been an “insider” on Wall Street, Jerry used his own Trigger Trade Pro system to forecast several major market events, including:

Stock market crash of 2008

Buy signal for U.S. stocks in 2009

The historic U.S. dollar bull market beginning in July 2014

China’s stock market rally in 2014

Gold and silver bull markets of 2016

Jerry’s book, Bankruptcy of Our Nation provides an eye-opening critique of America’s debt-based economic system. He has regularly appeared on popular radio and television programs and has lectured to audiences in the U.S. and around the globe.

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Eileen Appelbaum is a Co-Director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Visiting Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Leicester, UK. She has 20 years of experience carrying out empirical research on the effects of public policies and company practices on outcomes for companies and workers. She studies work processes and work-life practices of organizations and their implications for organizational effectiveness and for the quality of jobs. Recent publications examine employers' experiences with paid family leave in California and with paid sick days in Connecticut. Her book, Unfinished Business, Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy, coauthored with Ruth Milkman, was published in November 2013. A new report with Ruth Milkman, “Good for Business: Connecticut’s Paid Sick Leave Law,” appeared in March 2014. Her current research examines the effects of private equity ownership and governance on companies and workers and her latest book, Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street, coauthored with Rosemary Batt, was published in March 2014.

Dr. Appelbaum has published widely on workforce, employment, productivity and labor market issues and on the labor market experiences of women. Her research has examined low-wage work in the US and Europe; work processes and quality of care in child care, elder care and health are; and policies and practices that facilitate the work and family lives of workers. Her books include the co-edited volume, Low Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace (2003) and the coauthored books, Manufacturing Advantage: Why Higher Performance Work Systems Pay Off (2000) and The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the US (1994), all three of which were selected by Princeton University as Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. She has published widely in books and journals on wage and employment trends in industrialized countries and on the workplace and work-life practices of firms, including in Industrial Relations, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, British Journal of Industrial Relations, and International Labour Review. Dr. Appelbaum's recently published papers include "Low-Wage Work in High Income Countries," "Organizations and the Intersection of Work and Family: A Comparative Perspective," "Contesting Time: International Comparisons of Employee Control over Working Time," and "Balancing Work and Family: The Role of High Commitment Workplaces and Industrial Relations."