This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

This week, Drew and Chris are joined by Ron Pachino.

Mr. Pachino has more than 30 years of public accounting experience, including an extensive knowledge of tax laws and regulations, tax and accounting research skills, business valuations of closely held companies, forensic accounting, as well as financial statement preparation. He uses his specialized experience to assist clients in the following industries: commercial construction, residential construction, development, distribution, retail, hospitality, government contractors and services.

Mr. Pachino performs litigation support services, including expert testimony, forensic accounting and business valuation. His litigation support experience extends to civil litigation, family law, bankruptcy, estate and gift tax, mergers and acquisitions,
dissenting shareholder cases, economic losses, and international mediation.

Mr. Pachino has prepared and/or supervised hundreds of business valuations and has testified in court cases, hearings, mediation and depositions involving forensic accounting, valuation of closely held businesses and fractional interests of non-marketable securities and tax matters. He has been admitted as an expert witness in several jurisdictions involving forensic accounting,
business acquisitions, business valuations, bankruptcies and tax matters.

Prior to joining PBMares, Mr. Pachino was the Director of Valuation and Forensic Services for a Maryland-based certified public accounting and management consulting firm. As Director of Valuation and Forensic Services, he provided expert guidance of litigation support services to the region's leading attorneys, their clients and area corporations. Mr. Pachino's responsibilities included valuations of closely held companies, forensic accounting services, strategic business planning, succession planning, business consulting, mergers and acquisitions, business loss computations, capital formation, auditing, accounting and tax compliance services.

Mr. Pachino has lectured to certified public accountants, bankers, attorneys, insurance agents and securities advisors on a variety of business valuation topics. In addition, he has taught accounting and finance courses for the Baltimore City Community College.

Professional affiliations for Mr. Pachino include membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants.

Mr. Pachino received his undergraduate degree from the Towson University and his Masters in Business Administration from Loyola University Maryland. His continuing education includes various courses and lectures offered by the American Society of Appraisers, the Institute of Business Appraisers, The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, SEAK, Inc., The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and others.

In addition to being a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Mr. Pachino has earned the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) and Certified Financial Forensics (CFF) designations from the AICPA. He has also earned the Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) designation.

This week, Drew and Chris are joined by Rachel Sherman.

Rachel Sherman is Associate Professor of Sociology. She is broadly interested in how and why unequal social relations are reproduced, legitimated, and contested, and in how these processes are embedded in cultural vocabularies of identity, interaction, and entitlement. Empirically, she uses ethnography and in-depth interviewing to investigate service work, consumption, and increasing economic inequality in the contemporary U.S. context.

Her first book, Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels (University of California Press, 2007), draws primarily on participant observation research to analyze how workers, guests, and managers in these hotels made sense of and negotiated the class inequalities that marked their relationships.

Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence (Princeton University Press, 2017), Professor Sherman's second book, uses in-depth interviews to explore the lived experience of privilege among wealthy and affluent New York parents. The book has been covered or reviewed by the New York Times, the New York Post, the Times of London, Vice, the Financial Times, Commentary, Nature Books in Brief, and the BBC World Service. An adapted excerpt appeared at The Guardian. Sherman's essay for the New York Times Sunday Review, published in conjunction with the book, is here.

Professor Sherman has also conducted research on the contemporary U.S. labor movement; on expert service work, especially the "lifestyle management" industry; and the interactive artwork of Tino Sehgal. She has recently received funding from the New School Provost's Office and the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies to conduct preliminary research on food services in the airline industry.

Professor Sherman's teaching includes courses on qualitative methods, class, work and labor, social movements, culture, and consumption.

This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

This week, Drew and Chris took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...

This week, Drew and Tom are joined by Bob Ehrlich.

The Honorable Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. is senior counsel in the Government Advocacy practice at King & Spalding. He advises clients on a broad array of policy matters and their interactions with the federal government. Having served as Governor, U.S. Congressman, state legislator, and civil litigator, he counsels clients on an array of government matters, with particular expertise in health care, finance and economic development.

This week, Drew and Chris are joined by David Pilling author of “Growth Delusion”.

David Pilling, long-time Asia Editor of the Financial Times, has now added Africa to his portfolio, following a move to London in 2016. David has long spoken about business, economics and politics in China, India, Japan and across Asia more generally. He now adds close-up knowledge of Africa, with a particular emphasis on Nigeria and South Africa and some of the continent's more promising economies from Ethiopia and Rwanda to Kenya. He is also an expert on the fast-developing and geopolitically significant relationship between China and Africa.
 
In his newest book, The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty and the Well-being of Nations, David explores how economists and their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making and infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work. A provocative critique of the pieties and fallacies of our obsession with economic growth.

This week, Drew and Tom are joined by Wade Pfau.

Dr. Wade D. Pfau, CFA®, is a Professor of Retirement Income in the PhD in Financial and Retirement Planning program at The American College of Financial Services. He is also a contributor to the The College’s Retirement Income Certified Professional® (RICP®) designation program curriculum.

Dr. Pfau is a co-editor of the Journal of Personal Finance. He has spoken at the national conferences of organizations for financial professionals such as the CFA Institute, FPA, NAPFA, AICPA-PFP, and AFS. He also publishes frequently in a wide variety of academic and practitioner research journals. He hosts the Retirement Researcher blog, and is a monthly columnist for Advisor Perspectives, a RetireMentor for MarketWatch, a contributor to Forbes, and an Expert Panelist for The Wall Street Journal. His research has been discussed in outlets that include print editions of The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Money Magazine.