 Speakers
The speakers we have assembled for the 2010 New Orleans Investment Conference continues our long tradition of assembling the best and the brightest from the worlds of finance, economics and politics.
True to the principles of our founder, Jim Blanchard, our chosen speakers share a common belief in the power of free markets, sound money and personal freedom. They are people who have reached the pinnacles of their professions and on whom institutional and private investors willingly lavish millions of dollars in consulting and advisory fees.
And the New Orleans Investment Conference gives you unprecedented access to each and every one of them. For the price of what just one of our speakers would charge for a one-on-one consultation, you can get up close and personal with over 50 of the most successful investors on the planet.
Our 2010 Speaker Faculty
Mary Anne Aden
Mary Anne and Pamela Aden are two of the most influential and well-known investment analysts, writers and lecturers in the world. They are the co-editors and publishers of the Aden Forecast, a monthly investment newsletter, now in its 29th year, famed for its precise forecast of the Precious Metals and Foreign Exchange Markets as well as the U.S. stock market, U.S. interest rates, bonds and the international markets. They have been featured in publications such as Business Week, Barron's and Forbes.
Pamela Aden
Mary Anne and Pamela Aden are two of the most influential and well-known investment analysts, writers and lecturers in the world. They are the co-editors and publishers of the Aden Forecast, a monthly investment newsletter, now in its 29th year, famed for its precise forecast of the Precious Metals and Foreign Exchange Markets as well as the U.S. stock market, U.S. interest rates, bonds and the international markets. They have been featured in publications such as Business Week, Barron's and Forbes.
Gary Alexander
Gary Alexander is senior writer for Navellier & Associates. For the previous 20 years, he was Senior Executive Editor at InvestorPlace Media (Phillips Publishing). During the 1980s, he edited Gold Newsletter and Wealth magazine for Jim Blanchard. This is Mr. Alexander's 28th consecutive appearance at the New Orleans Conference.
Gene Arensberg
A land developer, professional numismatist, self-taught bullion trader/investor since 1980 and owner/editor of the very popular Got Gold Report, Gene Arensberg analyzes technical and fundamental developments in the precious metals markets for fund and portfolio managers, high net worth individuals and precious metal bullion traders. Gene’s biweekly in-depth market reports, insights and trading ideas are available for subscribers and he shares comments often on his public web log at www.GotGoldReport.com.
Dick Armey
Elected to Congress in 1984, Dr. Richard (Dick) Armey went to Washington as a novice. Armey was a strong believer in the policies of Ronald Reagan, though, and he knew the President needed reinforcements in Congress. He quickly became known for his dedication to good public policy based on conservative principles.
Armey was the primary author of the “Contract with America,” which was a collection of 10 bills that would be brought up for a vote during the first 100 days of a Republican-controlled Congress.
The Republicans took control of the House for the first time in 40 years and 60% of the “Contract with America” was signed into law. Dick Armey ran unopposed for Majority Leader in the 104th Congress and that Congress passed the first balanced budget in a generation. Armey was also influential in key legislation related to e-commerce and the economy, development of a flat tax and homeland defense.
Now retired from Congress, Armey continues to speak with warmth and wit on crucial issues such as: The Electronic Revolution and the Economy; How Homeland Defense Affects the Lives of All Americans; The Imperative for Tax Simplification; Why We Must Support Israel.
Dr. Dick Armey, a Ph.D economist, also speaks on the topics of his books, including "Price Theory," "The Freedom Revolution," "The Flat Tax" and "Armey's Axioms." His folksy, entertaining style endears him to audiences everywhere, while enlightening them to the goings-on of our nation and our world.
Dick Armey is Senior Policy Advisor at DLA Piper US LLP, a global law firm with over 3,000 attorneys. He is in the Government Affairs, Federal Legislative Practice Group of the Washington, DC office. He is also Chairman of Freedom Works Inc, which is the entity formed by the merger of Citizens for a Sound Economy-a grassroots education organization; and Empower America — a think tank founded by former Secretary of Education Bill Bennet and former Congressman Jack Kemp.
Andrew Barron
Dr. Barron is a co-founder of and technical consultant to Natcore Technology, Inc. Currently the Charles W. Duncan, Jr.-Welch Endowed Chair of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science at Rice University, Dr. Barron is the author of numerous publications in the area of materials preparation via chemical pathways. The author of over 370 peer-reviewed scientific papers, with nearly 80 focusing on developments in nanotechnology, Professor Barron was also the first faculty member hired for the Smalley Institute for Nanotechnology, the first such institute in the world. Prior to joining the faculty of Rice in 1995, Dr. Barron received his undergraduate and doctorate degrees in chemistry from the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, performed postdoctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, and served on the faculty at Harvard University. Dr. Barron was the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research from the Welch foundation. In 2009 he was appointed as the Prince of Wales Visiting Innovator and has an apopointment at University of Wales. He has also had prior experience with a startup company, Gallia, Inc., which was sold to TriQuint, Inc., and Oxane Materials, Inc, which has just opened its first 200,000 sqft factory for the manufacture of a new generation of proppant for the oil and gas industry.
Thom Calandra
Thom Calandra is editor of Ticker Trax, a subscription report specializing in natural resources and life sciences (anti-virals). Thom co-founded CBS MarketWatch, a leading financial news service. Thom visits mines and energy companies in a search for the top investment prospects. His source list includes some of the world's most reputable geologists, miners, investors and scientists. See him at www.tickertrax.com and at Canada's Stockhouse.com.
Doug Casey
Doug Casey is a world-renowned investor and author, whose book Crisis Investing was on the New York Times bestseller list for 29 weeks, including 11 weeks at #1. His first book, The International Man, was the biggest selling book in the history of Rhodesia.
He has been a featured guest on hundreds of radio and TV shows, including David Letterman, Merv Griffin, Charlie Rose, Phil Donahue, Regis Philbin, Maury Povich, NBC News and CNN, and has been the topic of numerous features in periodicals such as Time, Forbes, People and the Washington Post. He is also the founder of the Eris Society, a non-profit organization that for 30 years brought together over hundreds of the world’s leading free-market-oriented thinkers on a wide range of eclectic topics related to the arts, sciences, technology, finance and medicine. His firm, Casey Research, LLC, publishes a variety of publications and web sites with a combined weekly audience in excess of 200,000 individuals, largely high-net-worth investors with an interest in resource-development and international real estate. He currently also writes a weekly free publication, Conversations with Casey, available at Caseyresearch.com.
Mr. Casey has visited over 175 countries, most of them several times, and lived in ten. His main sport is polo, but he has been also active in skydiving, martial arts, scuba, auto racing and competitive shooting in the past.
David Coffin
In 1995, David Coffin founded, with his brother Eric, the Hard Rock Analyst newsletter service that deals with the mining and metals sectors. David, the “rocks side” of HRA, has been active in mining exploration for over 30 years in roles spanning prospecting through feasibility studies, and now markets commentary.
David logs over a hundred thousand miles every year, visiting exploration and development sites on six continents in order to bring back the real goods for HRA subscribers. They benefit not just from Dave’s seal of approval, but his outline of what he is seeing and where that might lead, so that subscribers can fine-tune their own sector gauges.
HRA was one of the first, back in 2001, to call the current cycle as the secular bull trend for commodities. Since then over a dozen HRA “picks” have been taken over in the ensuing boom market, with another half a dozen having successfully completed the shift from exploration to production and an equal number closing on that threshold. However, HRA is not a cheerleader — numerous others have garnered gains for subscribers on profit taking calls, and despite a continued belief in the long - term growth of the mining sector, HRA has made several calls for general profit taking ahead of market corrections. HRA offers opinions about developments and developers in the mining sector, on a considered, factual, and timely basis. http://www.hardrockanalyst.com
Brent Cook
Brent Cook is a renowned economic geologist and author of Exploration Insights, an investment letter focused on junior mining and exploration. He has over 25 years of experience focusing on the economic evaluation of mineral exploration, development and mining properties in over 50 countries, encompassing virtually all geologic environments. He was the principal Mining and Exploration analyst with Global Resource Investments through 2003 and has consulted to most of the major mining companies as well as a select group of North American and European funds.
Adrian Day
Adrian Day, British-born writer and money manager, has been a pioneer in global investing, with two books on the subject. A London School of Economics graduate, he is president of his boutique money management firm, specializing in global and resource equities. His new book, Investing in Resources, has just been published.
Marc Faber
Originally from Zurich, Marc Faber has lived in Hong Kong since 1973. A doctoral graduate at the age of 24, Dr. Faber worked for White Weld & Company from 1970 to 1978. From 1978 to 1990, he was the managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert (HK) Ltd. In 1990, he set up his own business; Marc Faber Limited, which acts as an investment advisor, fund manager and broker/dealer. Marc Faber, Managing Director of Marc Faber Limited and the Publisher of "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report." His widely read newsletter, "The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," highlights unusual investment opportunities. Dr. Faber is the author of several books, including "Tomorrow's Gold — Asia's Age of Discovery," which was on Amazon's best-seller list for several weeks. A book about Dr. Faber, "Riding The Millennial Storm," by Nury Vittachi, was published in 1998. A regular speaker at various investment seminars, Dr. Faber is known for his "contrarian" investment approach. He is also associated with a variety of funds.
Dennis Gartman
Mr. Gartman has been directly involved in the capital markets since August of 1974, after his graduate work at the North Carolina State University. He was an economist for Cotton, Inc. in the early 1970s, analyzing cotton supply/demand in the U.S. textile industry. From there he went to NCNB National Bank in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments. In the late ’70s, Mr. Gartman became the Chief Financial Futures analyst for A. G. Becker & Company in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Gartman was an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade until 1984, trading in Treasury bond, Treasury note and GNMA futures contracts. In 1984, Mr. Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for the Sovran Bank, and in 1987 Mr. Gartman began The Gartman Letter on a full time basis. He continues to do so today.
Clients of The Gartman Letter, L.C. include many of the leading banks, broking firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, energy trading companies and grain trading companies. Mr. Gartman has lectured on capital market creation to central banks and finance ministries around the world, and has taught classes for the Federal Reserve Bank’s School for Bank Examiners on derivatives. Mr. Gartman served a two-year term as an outside Director of the Kansas City Board of Trade from 2006-2008. He has been a member of the Suffolk Industrial Development Authority since 1998, and now serves on the Investment Committee of the North Caroline State University. Mr. Gartman appears often on CNBC, BNN and Bloomberg television, discussing commodities and the capital markets, and speaks before various associations and trade groups around the world.
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich is well-known as the architect of the “Contract with America” that led the Republican Party to victory in 1994 by capturing the majority in the U.S. House for the first time in forty years. After he was elected Speaker, he disrupted the status quo by moving power out of Washington and back to the American people. Under his leadership, Congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget in a generation and passed the first tax cut in sixteen years. In addition, the Congress restored funding to strengthen our defense and intelligence capabilities, an action later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission.
But there is a lot more to Gingrich than these remarkable achievements. As an author, Gingrich has published twenty-one books including 12 fiction and non-fiction New York Times best-sellers.
Gingrich and his wife, Callista, host and produce documentaries. Recent films include Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, We Have the Power and Rediscovering God in America. A fourth documentary, Nine Days That Changed The World, is currently in production.
In his post-Speaker role, Gingrich has become one of the most highly sought-after public speakers, accepting invitations to speak before some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. Because of his own unquenchable thirst for knowledge, Gingrich is able to share unique and unparalleled insights on a wide range of topics. His audiences find him to be not only an educational but also an inspirational speaker.
Gingrich also serves with former Senator Bob Kerrey as co-chairman of the National Commission for Quality Long-term Care. The commission will make recommendations to policymakers and the public on how to transform healthcare services for the frail elderly and disabled in order to maximize independence and achieve a high quality of life and quality of care for our aging population.
Recognized internationally as an expert on world history, military issues and international affairs, Gingrich serves as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Gingrich is the longest-serving teacher of the Joint War Fighting course for Major Generals. He also teaches officers from all five services as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Professor at the National Defense University. Gingrich serves on the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an editorial board member of the Johns Hopkins University journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism and is an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Recently, Gingrich was named co-chair of the UN Task Force, a bi-partisan Congressional effort to reform the United Nations.
Gingrich was first elected to Congress in 1978 where he served the Sixth District of Georgia for twenty years. In 1995, he was elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives where he served until 1999. The Washington Times has called him “the indispensable leader” and Time magazine, in naming him Man of the Year for 1995, said, “Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.”
His experiences as the son of a career soldier convinced him at an early age to dedicate his life to his country and to the protection of freedom. Realizing the importance of understanding the past in order to protect the future, he immersed himself in the study of history, receiving his Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History from Tulane University. Before his election to Congress, he taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for eight years.
He resides in Virginia with his wife, Callista. The Gingrich family includes two daughters, two sons-in-law and two grandchildren.
Steven Hochberg
Steven Hochberg is a close associate of Robert Prechter and chief market analyst for Prechter’s company, Elliott Wave International. The Elliott Wave Principle is one of the world’s most recognized technical tools for forecasting market behavior, and Elliott Wave International is the world’s largest provider of Elliott Wave analysis.
Mr. Hochberg is recognized as one of the world’s foremost experts on the Wave Principle and its application to market forecasting. He began his career with Merrill Lynch & Co. and joined Elliott Wave International in 1994, where he quickly established a stellar reputation providing analysis to large institutional traders and hedge funds. Mr. Hochberg is a sought after speaker and has been widely quoted in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Barron’s and Bloomberg news. He has also been interviewed numerous times for his market views by CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg Television and Canada’s ROB TV.
Frank Holmes
Frank Holmes is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc., a boutique registered investment adviser specializing in natural resources, infrastructure and emerging markets.
His specialized international capital markets knowledge gives him a unique expertise in resource-based industries and money management. He is a regular keynote speaker at national and international investment conferences. He is also a much-sought-after commentator on the financial television networks CNBC and Bloomberg and has been profiled by Fortune, Barron's The Financial Times and other publications. He is the co-author of “The Goldwatcher: Demystifying Gold Investing.”
Charles Krauthammer
A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and the man the Financial Times calls “the most influential commentator in America,” Mr. Krauthammer defines the term “Renaissance man.” A former practicing psychiatrist, and currently a columnist for The Washington Post, his views have influenced American policy for over three decades.
Mr. Krauthammer’s towering intellect and powerful opinions have earned him the respect of both the left and the right. At this moment, his reasoned arguments are serving as one of the most effective weapons against Washington’s socialization of our society.
Mr. Krauthammer began writing a weekly column for The Washington Post in January 1985, and won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary in 1987. He was also the winner of the 1984 National Magazine Award for essays.
Meg Greenfield, editorial page editor of The Washington Post, calls Mr. Krauthammer’s column “independent and hard to peg politically. It’s a very tough column. There’s no ‘trendy’ in it. You never know what is going to happen next.”
A column, notes Mr. Krauthammer, is not just political philosophy. “Much of it has to do with common sense. One of my many missions is putting up a first-line defense against the various enthusiasms of the age — everything from the nuclear freeze to identity politics to the ‘recovered memory’ movement — which tend to roll over the culture at regular intervals.”
Mr. Krauthammer was born in New York City and raised in Montreal. He was educated at McGill University, majoring in political science and economics, Oxford University (Commonwealth Scholar in Politics) and Harvard (M.D. in 1975). He practiced medicine for three years as a resident and then chief resident in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital.
In 1978, he quit medical practice, came to Washington to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Carter administration, and began contributing articles to the New Republic. During the presidential campaign of 1980, he served as a speechwriter to Vice President Walter Mondale. He joined the New Republic as a writer and editor in 1980. He also writes essays for Time and the Weekly Standard. In 1997, the Washingtonian magazine named him among the top 50 most influential journalists in the national press corps.
Mr. Krauthammer lives in suburban Washington with his wife Robyn, an artist, and their son.
Stephen Leeb
Dr. Stephen Leeb holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, along with a Master's Degree in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois.
Dr. Leeb is author of Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (2009). He has also authored six additional books on investments and financial trends, including best selling, The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (Warner Books).
He is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Leeb Capital Management, a registered investment advisor, he has been managing big cap growth portfolios since 1999.
Dr. Leeb is founder of the Leeb Group, which publishes a line of financial newsletters including The Complete Investor (winner of two awards for Editorial Excellence), Leeb's Income Performance Letter(2nd place winner of 2009 Editorial Excellence Award), Leeb's Real World Investing e-letter, and Leeb's Aggressive Trader, Leeb’s Million Dollar Portfolio and Leeb’s ETF World Alert e-letters.
He has been featured with Investors Business Daily, USA Today, Business Week, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is a sought after TV guest as well, appearing on CNN, FOX News, Bloomberg and CNBC.
Brien Lundin
With a career spanning three decades in the investment markets, Brien Lundin serves as president and CEO of Jefferson Financial, a highly regarded publisher of market analyses and producer of investment-oriented events. Under the Jefferson Financial umbrella, Mr. Lundin serves as publisher and editor of Gold Newsletter, the publication that has been the cornerstone of precious metals advisories since 1971, and as the host of the annual New Orleans Investment Conference, the oldest and most respected investment event of its kind.
As editor of Gold Newsletter, Mr. Lundin covers not only resource stocks, but also the entire world of investing, from small-caps of every type to macroeconomics and geopolitical issues that ultimately affect every investor. As host of the New Orleans Investment Conference, Mr. Lundin has annually brought the giants of investing, economics and geopolitics together in intimate presentations with many of today’s most sophisticated private investors. In all of these endeavors, Mr. Lundin has striven to burnish the brilliant legacy of the late James U. Blanchard III, his great friend and the founder of both Gold Newsletter and the New Orleans Investment Conference.
In addition to his responsibilities with Jefferson Financial, Mr. Lundin is an active investor and speculator in the mining and technology sectors.
Ian Mc Avity
Ian McAvity, editor of Deliberations on World Markets since 1972, is a globally recognized technical analyst who covers the major world stock markets, currencies and gold. He has been an Advisor and Director of Central Fund of Canada Ltd., the Amex-listed gold and silver bullion fund since 1983, and a trustee of Amex-listed Central Gold-Trust since its launch in 2003. At the conference, he will graphically update his big-picture expectations for stocks, gold and the dollar.
Robert Meier
Robert Meier has been a conference speaker since 1976, and a Gold Newsletter contributing editor since 1979. The Rutsen Meier Belmont (RMB) Group specializes in “big move” option strategies in commodities, securities, ETFs and has foreign exchange (FX) trading desk. They issue recommendations via their “Options Alert” and “Currency Trader” publications. Their individual managed account division offers a selection of alternative asset money managers.
Bill Murphy
Bill Murphy, chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), has an extensive commodities and futures background with some of the world’s most well-known Wall Street firms. However, those firms probably wish they’d never heard of him. That’s because Mr. Murphy has since compiled a vast body of evidence implicating some of them in what he says is a scheme to manipulate the price of gold. He is a graduate of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and was a starting wide receiver for the Boston Patriots in 1968.
Chris Powell
Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut, where he has worked for more than 40 years. His political columns are published in a dozen newspapers in Connecticut and Rhode Island. He and LeMetropoleCafe.com proprietor Bill Murphy founded the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee in 1999 to expose manipulation of the gold market.
Robert Prechter Jr.
Robert R. Prechter, Jr., CMT, is president of Elliott Wave International. Bob’s most recent financial title is Conquer the Crash — You Can Survive and Prosper in a Deflationary Crash and Depression. His book on social theory is Socionomics — The Science of History and Social Prediction. Bob resides at ww.elliottwave.com.
Robert Ringer
Robert Ringer is the author of three #1 bestsellers and a columnist for WorldNetDaily.
He also publishes the pro-liberty e-letter A Voice of Sanity in an Insane World and hosts the highly acclaimed Liberty Education Interview Series, which features interviews with top political, economic, and social leaders.
Lawrence Roulston
Lawrence Roulston, editor of Resource Opportunities, is a geologist with engineering and business training, and more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the resource industry as a mining company analyst and executive. He is renowned as a guest speaker at industry conferences and events, and can be heard on popular business radio and television programs. Mr. Roulston's years of hands-on experience and extensive personal contacts in the industry provide unique insights that have generated an impressive track record for Resource Opportunities. He also publishes GreenTech Opportunities, an investment newsletter focused on innovations in the alternative energy sector. Lawrence recently launched the Roulston Resource Opportunities Fund, a Cayman domiciled (tax-exempt) entity offering foreign investors the potential for highly leveraged gains in the gold and mineral sector.
Rick Rule
Rick Rule is chairman of Global Resource Investments, Ltd. Mr. Rule began his career in the securities business in 1974, and has been principally involved in natural resource security investments ever since. A leading investor specializing in mining, energy, water, forest products and agriculture, he is a popular public speaker featured at investment conferences and resource investment forums throughout the world. His firm, Global Resource Investments, provides investment advice and brokerage service to individuals, corporations and institutions worldwide.
Mr. Rule is very active in private placement investment markets, and has originated and/or participated in several hundred transactions over the past 20 years, including both debt and equity in private, pre-public and public companies.
Jeff Siegel
Jeff Siegel is the co-founder and managing editor of Green Chip Stocks, an independent investment research service focusing primarily on renewable energy and organic and natural food markets. Jeff also works as a consultant, has been a featured guest on Fox, CNBC and Bloomberg Asia, and is the author of the best-selling book, Investing in Renewable Energy: Making Money on Green Chip Stocks.
Eric Sprott
Eric Sprott has accumulated over 40 years of experience in the investment industry. After earning his designation as a chartered accountant, Eric entered the investment industry as a research analyst at Merrill Lynch.
In 1981, he founded Sprott Securities, which today is one of Canada's largest independently owned securities firms with offices in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal. After establishing Sprott Asset Management Inc. in December 2001 as a separate entity, Eric divested his entire ownership of Sprott Securities to its employees.
Eric's investment abilities are well represented in his track record in managing the Sprott Hedge Fund L.P., Sprott Hedge Fund L.P. II, Sprott Offshore Fund, Sprott Canadian Equity Fund, Sprott Energy Fund and Sprott Managed Accounts.
In December 2004, the Sprott Hedge Fund L.P. was the winner of the Opportunistic Strategy Hedge Fund Award at the Canadian Investment Awards. In addition, the Sprott Offshore Fund, Ltd., won the 2006 MarHedge Annual Performance Award under the Canada-Based Manager category. Furthermore, in October 2006, Eric was the recipient of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Financial Services) and the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Ontario. In December 2007, Eric was named Fund Manager of the Year by Investment Executive, a widely circulated publication for Canadian financial advisors.
Since the inception of Sprott Securities in 1981 Mr. Sprott has established a number of companies all with distinctive, professional and results driven leadership that makes Sprott the financial leader that it has come to be. These companies include:
- Sprott Securities (now Cormark)- Investment dealer
- Sprott Asset Management-Investment manager to the “Sprott Funds”
- Sprott Private Wealth- Wealth management services
- Sprott Resource Corp. - Merchant bank within the natural resource sector
- Sprott Money Ltd. - Dealer of physical precious metals
Eric Sprott has earned a recognized standing as one of North Americas premiere investors. Sprott Money Ltd. is the newest Sprott venture offering physical delivery of the highest quality bullion bars and coins to investors.
Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen is a professional economist, investment expert, university professor, and author of over 25 books. Currently he holds the Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management at Grantham University. In 2004-05, he taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School and Columbia University. Since 1980, Skousen has been editor in chief of Forecasts& Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter (www.markskousen.com). He is editor of his own weekly e-letter, www.worldlyphilosophers.com. He is a former analyst for the CIA, a columnist to Forbes magazine, chairman of Investment U, and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in New York. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Christian Science Monitor, and is a regular contributor to CNBC's Kudlow & Co. His bestsellers include The Making of Modern Economics, Investing in One Lesson, and EconoPower. In 2006, he compiled and edited The Completed Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin (Regnery). In honor of his work in economics, finance and management, Grantham University renamed its business school, “The Mark Skousen School of Business.”
Frank Trotter
Frank Trotter is president of EverBank Direct. A founding partner of EverBank in 1998, he has acquired over 30 years of experience in the banking industry. Mr. Trotter has served as senior vice president and managing director of Mercantile Bank Capital Markets and as director of the International Markets Division of Mark Twain Bank, where he created the World Currency™ family of deposits and directed the global launch of eCash™. He is a widely-quoted speaker on financial topics, especially currency markets. Publications focusing on World Currency™ or recently quoting Mr. Trotter include The Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, CBS MarketWatch, USA Today, CNNfn, and the Chicago Tribune, among others.
David Walker
David Walker is the outspoken, nonpartisan voice who is sounding the alarm about the unsustainable fiscal politics that now threaten America’s future.
During his tenure as the U.S. Comptroller General, Walker traveled the country sounding the alarm to Americans about unsustainable fiscal policies that threaten to derail the nation's future. His mission caught the attention of Sundance film veteran Patrick Creadon, who has featured Walker in the acclaimed film I.O.U.S.A.
Walker has extensive executive-level experience in both government and private industry. Between 1989 and 1998, he was a partner and global managing director of the human capital services practice of Arthur Andersen LLP. While a partner at Arthur Andersen, Walker also served as a Public Trustee for Social Security and Medicare from 1990 to 1995. Walker now heads the newly formed Peter G. Peterson Foundation, established and funded by the billionaire founder of The Blackstone Group. Founded in early 2008, the Foundation is aggressively working to educate Americans about the impending fiscal crisis and how to fix it to ensure that our country enjoys a sustainable economy for generations to come.
He has authored two books and has a third book scheduled for release in January 2010 titled Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility. |
