 Faculty
The faculty 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.
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.
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 since 1980 and editor of the very popular Got Gold Report, Gene Arensberg analyzes technical and fundamental developments in the precious metals markets. Gene’s biweekly in-depth market reports, insights and trading ideas are an exclusive service for subscribers of Brien Lundin’s highly acclaimed Gold Newsletter. For more information visit GoldNewsletter.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 350 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. He has also had prior experience with a start-up company, Gallia, Inc., which was sold to TriQuint, Inc., a major manufacturer of gallium arsenide electronic devices.
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
David, the “geology side” of HRA, has been active in prospecting, resource calculation, and feasibility studies for resource companies for 29 years. He attended the Haileybury School of Mines, authored numerous qualifying reports for resource companies, and managed and designed field programs for over 15 years.
His experience is so vast that scores of companies try and lure him to look at their projects. Why? Because they know if their project has Dave’s seal of approval, a lot of serious market players and other analysts will take notice. Besides, with his background, getting Dave to visit a site is like hiring a top flight consultant — without the consulting fees!
There’s also a few who don’t want him to visit, since he’s got a reputation for being tough to fool and a visit might prompt a negative report. Dave went against the crowd in the late 1990 surging companies to return to high grade underground mining which turned out to be salvation for many of them during the bear market that followed.
David was also one of the first (along with Eric) to call the current cycle as the secular trend others have only recently recognized. They made that call back in 2001. David is a regular speaker at Cambridge House, the PDAC, the New Orleans Investment Conference and other American conferences, and has been interviewed numerous times on radio and TV and in third party news articles for his opinions on the gold sector and resource stocks in general.
David logs literally hundreds of thousands of miles every year, visiting exploration sites on six continents in order to bring back the real goods for HRA subscribers.
Brent Cook
Brent Cook, a renowned Exploration Analyst and Geologist, is the author of Exploration Insights, a mining and exploration investment letter. He has over 25 years of experience providing economic and geologic evaluations to major mining companies, resource funds and investors. He has worked in over 50 countries on virtually every mineral deposit type. He was principal Mining and Exploration Analyst to Global Resource Investments through 2003,where he provided analysis to retail brokers and two in-house funds. His newsletter selectively covers junior mining and exploration investment opportunities. More information on Brent’s rigorous assessment process can be found at ExplorationInsights.com.
Adrian Day
Adrian Day is a British-born writer and money manager who has made a name for himself searching out unusual opportunities. Mr. Day was a pioneer promoting the benefits of global investing, with two books on the subject. A graduate of the London School of Economics; he is the president of his own money management firm, Adrian Day Asset Management, where he specializes in global diversification and gold equities for individual and institutional clients. Mr. Day is also editor of a premium fax/e-mail service, Adrian Day's Global Analyst.
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
Dennis Gartman, the editor and publisher of the Gartman Letter, has been in the markets since 1974. Born in Akron, Ohio, Gartman received his BA from the University of Akron and MA from North Carolina State University. After finishing his graduate work in the mid 1970s, he worked as an economist for Cotton, Inc. analyzing cotton supply/demand in the US textile industry. From there he went to NCNB where he traded foreign exchange and money market instruments.
In 1977, Mr. Gartman became the Chief Financial Futures Analyst for A.G. Becker and Company in Chicago, where he also served as an independent member of the Chicago Board of Trade, trading in treasury bond, treasury note and GNMA futures contracts. In 1985, Mr. Gartman moved to Virginia to run the futures brokerage operation for the Virginia National Bank, and in 1987 began producing The Gartman Letter on a full-time basis. He continues to do so to this day.
Steven Hochberg
Steven Hochberg is a close associate of Robert Prechter and chief market analyst for Prechter's company Elliott Wave International in Gainesville, Georgia. 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. Mr. Hochberg was the featured interview for the November 2001 issue of Stocks and Commodities magazine and the October 2002 issue of Chartpoint magazine."
Frank Holmes
Frank Holmes is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Global Investors, Inc. The company is a registered investment adviser that manages approximately $4.8 billion in 13 no-load mutual funds and for other advisory clients.
Mr. Holmes, a Toronto native, bought a controlling interest in U.S. Global Investors in 1989 after an accomplished career in Canada’s capital markets.
The company’s Global Resources Fund (PSPFX) is the 2005 and 2006 Lipper Fund Award winner in the natural resources category. U.S. Global’s World Precious Minerals Fund (UNWPX) and China Region Opportunity Fund (USCOX) also won Lipper recognition in their categories in 2006.
The Global Resources Fund is also Morningstar’s top performer among all domestic stock funds in the five-year period ending December 31, 2006. Also, the World Precious Minerals Fund is Morningstar’s top performer among all international stock funds for the five-year period ending December 31, 2006.
Mr. Holmes is a sought-after speaker at national and international investment conferences. He is also a regular commentator on the financial television networks CNBC and Bloomberg, and has been profiled by Fortune, Barron’s, The Financial Times and other publications.
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, all within a three-year period.
Dr. Stephen Leeb is author of the book, Game Over: How You Can Prosper in a Shattered Economy (2009). In addition, he has authored of six previous books on investments and financial trends, including The Coming Economic Collapse: How You Can Thrive When Oil Costs $200 a Barrel (by Warner Books), which outlines the biggest challenges facing the American economy, and the steps individuals and government can take to forestall them.
Dr. Stephen Leeb 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. Dr. Leeb is also the editor of The Complete Investor newsletter, which has earned awards for Editorial Excellence in 2004 and 2005 by the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Association.
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 regular conference speaker since 1976, and a Gold Newsletter contributing editor since 1979. Bob founded the RMB Group in 1984. RMB specializes in "big move" option strategies in commodities, securities, ETFs -- and operates a separate foreign exchange (FX) trading desk, RMB FX Trader Assist.
RMB annually issues about 70 trade recommendations via their respected "Options Alert" publication, and are well-known for their Auto Trade service. Auto Trade saves clients time, trouble and helps eliminate the risk they will miss trade recommendations from newsletters and alert services by automatically making trades on behalf of the client.
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 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 www.elliottwave.com.
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. Lawrence has recently launched a new publication for investors, GreenTech Opportunities, focused on innovations in the alternative energy 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.
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 25 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. |
