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 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! ...

Chris and Chris are joined by Tres Knippa.

Tres Knippa is a trader, broker, and member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and appears weekly on CNBC, Bloomberg, and many other networks around the world. Tres has been trading futures and currency markets for over 17 years and became a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1996 after moving to Chicago from Texas. In 2004 Tres was the youngest member to ever be appointed to the Live Cattle Pit Committee at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Today, Tres' focus is nothing short of global in scope. Tres trades a variety markets for himself and his clients including agricultural futures, currencies, stock indices, and interest rates. Tres' customer base is as diverse as his positions. His customers include a commercial wheat farmer in Brisbane, Australia, a fund manager in London, England, a currency trader in Dubai, UAE, a stock index trader in Prague, Czech, a fund manager in Italy, and a feedyard owner in Dodge City, Kansas amongst many others. Tres is a registered Commodity Trading Advisor with Kenai Capital Management. While building his business, Tres found the time to attend classes and graduate from the Entrepreneurial Masters Program at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts. He also holds a BBA from Baylor University and a Ranch Management Certificate from Texas Christian University. Tres' fund seeks to profit from what, in his opinion, is the coming debt crisis in Japan.

Drew and Chris are joined by Steve LeVine.

Steve LeVine is Washington Correspondent for Quartz, the mobile-first startup launched in 2012 by Atlantic Media. He writes about the geopolitics of energy and technology. Steve is also a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches energy security in the graduate-level Security Studies Program.

Previously, Steve was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, running a bureau for The Wall Street Journal, and before that writing for The New York Times, the Financial Times and Newsweek.

The Powerhouse is Steve’s third book. In 2007, Random House published The Oil and the Glory, which chronicled the struggle for fortune and power on the Caspian Sea. BusinessWeek magazine selected it as a Top 10 book for the year. In 2008, Random House published Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians. Both books are on numerous university reading lists.

Steve lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Nurilda, and their two daughters.

This week, Drew and Tom are joined on air by Josef Joffe, author of The Myth of America's Decline.

This week, Drew and Tim are joined by Allan Meltzer to discuss his new book Why Capitalism?

Allan Meltzer is a professor of Political Economy and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is also a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He has served as a consultant for several Congressional committees; the President's Council of Economic Advisers, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the World Bank, foreign governments and central banks. He has been a member of the President's Economic Policy Advisory Board. In 1988-89, he was an acting member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1986 to 2002, he was Honorary Adviser to the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies of the Bank of Japan.

In 1999-2000, he served as Chairman of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, known as the Meltzer Commission. The Commission proposed major reforms of the International Monetary Fund and the development banks.

This week, Drew is joined on the show by Roger Bootle, author of the book The Trouble With Markets.

Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best known economists, having worked in or around the financial markets since 1978. As well as being Managing Director of Capital Economics, he is also a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He was formerly Group Chief Economist at HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of economic forecasters, the so-called “Wise Men”. He studied Economics at Oxford, and began his career in the academic world as a lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford.

He has written many articles and several books on monetary economics. Roger’s latest book, The Trouble with Markets, analyses the deep causes of the recent financial crisis and discusses the threats to capitalism arising from it.

This week, Drew is in studio interviewing Daryl Jones of HedgeEye.com.

This week, Drew is joined by Mark Gilbert, London Bureau Chief of Bloomberg News and author of the book Complicit. They are discussing global economic issues.