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Clark Winter

By | 02/2011 | Asia, BUSINESS, Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Emerging Markets, Financial Markets, Future Trends / Futurists, Global Economy/Trade, Investing, Latin America, Mergers & Acquisitions, Personal Finance, Risk Management, The Market, The Middle East | Comments Off
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Clark Winter is an internationally known commentator on the world economy, global financial markets and geopolitics. He founded Winter Capital International, an independent advisory firm that structured multi-manager portfolios by harnessing the talents of independent investment managers working worldwide; the company was later acquired by Citigroup and Winter served as the chief global investment strategist for Citigroup Global Wealth Management, Citi Private Bank, and Smith Barney, and was director of portfolio strategy and managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co. Read more…

James Glassman

By | 01/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Diplomacy, Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Emerging Markets, Financial Markets, Global Economy/Trade, Globalization, Investing, POLITICS / WORLD AFFAIRS, The Market, World Affairs | Comments Off
James Glassman

A former CNN talk show moderator, syndicated financial columnist, and State Department official, James K. Glassman has made a career out of taking hard to understand, complex issues and distilling them into plain, clear language. He is widely recognized as an expert on the economy, finance, technology and international affairs, and is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, an action-oriented think tank that is part of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. He also currently hosts Ideas in Action, a weekly public affairs program broadcast on PBS stations across the country from our nation’s capitol. Glassman wrote the first investing column for Reader’s Digest in the 1970s and went on to write columns for the Washington Post, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, and Forbes.com. He’s written three books on investing, Dow 36,000, with co-author Kevin Hassett; The Secret Code of the Superior Investor, and most recently, Safety Net: The Strategy for De-Risking Your Investments in a Time of Turbulence. Glassman is a former Senior Fellow for the American Enterprise Institute, where his work focused on economics, business and understanding the intersection between policy, finance and technology. He most recently served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, where he brought new Internet technology to bear on outreach to foreign republics, and Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, where he directed all non-military, taxpayer-funded U.S. international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Alhurra TV. Read more…

David Leinweber

By | 01/2011 | Authors, BUSINESS, Communication, Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Financial Markets, Global Economy/Trade, Innovation, Investing, TECHNOLOGY, Technology, Telecommunications, The Internet, The Market | Comments Off
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David Leinweber, author of “Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets“, was recently named one of the Top Ten Innovators of the Decade by Advanced Trading magazine. As founder of two financial technology firms, and as manager of multi-billon dollar quantitative equity portfolios, he brings a practical approach to innovation. He is now principal of Leinweber & Co., and in a public service role, co-founder of the Center for Innovative Financial Technology at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. Read more…

John Bogle

By | 01/2011 | Authors, Banking, BUSINESS, Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Emerging Markets, Global Economy/Trade, Investing, Leadership, The Market | Comments Off
John Bogle

Named by Fortune magazine as one of the investment industry’s four giants of the 20th century, John Bogle is a titan of the investment world and a hero to independent investors.

The founder and former chairman of The Vanguard Group–the world’s largest no-load mutual fund organization–John Bogle now shares with audiences his proven, common sense philosophies for investing. No matter what your investment experience, Bogle’s practical and unique insights can be used immediately as a springboard to success. Read more…

Alan Blinder

By | 01/2011 | Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Global Economy/Trade, Investing, The Market | Comments Off
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Since 1971 Alan S. Blinder has been on the Princeton faculty, only taking leave of absence from January 1993 through January 1996 for service in the U.S. government—first as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, and then as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to his academic writing [books, academic articles] and his best-selling introductory textbook, he has written many newspaper and magazine columns and op-eds and, in recent years, has been a regular columnist for The New York Times Sunday Business section. He also appears frequently on television on PBS, CNBC, Bloomberg, and others. Dr. Blinder is a past president of the Eastern Economic Association, past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Read more…

Juan Licari

By | 01/2011 | Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Emerging Markets, Global Economy/Trade, Investing, Risk Management, The Market | Comments Off
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Juan M. Licari, director at Moody’s Analytics and the head of the Credit Analytics team for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, provides consulting support to major industry players, builds econometric tools to model credit phenomena, and implements stress-testing platforms to quantify portfolio risk exposure. His team is an industry leader in developing and instituting credit solutions that connect credit data to the underlying economic cycle, allowing portfolio managers to plan for alternative macroeconomic scenarios. Licari is actively involved in communicating the team’s research and methodologies to the market, and he speaks at credit events and economic conferences worldwide. Meeting constantly with market participants, he has presented the Moody’s unique credit solutions to banks, consumer finance companies, investment groups, and retail lenders in 14 countries. An articulate and engaging speaker in both English and Spanish, he is also in demand as an expert on the global economy and international credit outlook. He has spoken at conventions of industry and academic groups such as RiskMinds and RiskCapital conferences in Europe, Risk Management Association and Consumer Bankers Association events, credit collection symposiums, Yale University, The Wharton School, and Cornell University. Read more…

Todd Buchholz

By | 01/2011 | Architecture, Authors, BUSINESS, China, Economic Outlook, ECONOMY, Emerging Markets, Global Economy/Trade, Globalization, International Affairs, Outsourcing, Political Analysis, The Market | Comments Off
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Todd Buchholz “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” says the Associated Press. He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.” His editorials in the Wall Street Journal and commentaries on PBS correctly forecast the 2001 slowdown in the U.S., and the 2008 pop in commodity prices. The New York Times has turned to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of the quicksand facing the stock market. Read more…

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