Money, Riches & Wealth - The Podcast

MRW Podcast - Moshe Silver (Guest)

This week, Drew and Tim are joined on air by Moshe Silver, author of Fixing a Broken Wall Street. Moshe Silver has spent three decades on Wall Street and is Chief Compliance Officer at Hedgeye Risk Management.  In addition to his Columbia MBA, Moshe’s depth and breadth of experience are unique for a compliance professional.  He was a producing broker at Bear Stearns and PaineWebber, and more recently a hedge fund compliance officer at Millennium and Carlyle Blue-Wave Partners.  In between, he has run brokerage branch operations and been director of compliance at the regional, national and global level.  Moshe’s talent with language and expertise with a pen (he holds a Masters Degree in creative writing from The New School) make him a multiple threat player.  Moshe authors the regular Hedgeye featured column “Slouching Towards Wall Street” and scours the Latin American press daily to add detail – and the occasional scoop – to Hedgeye’s in-depth coverage of Brazil.

MRW Podcast - Zack Pace (Guest)

This week, Drew is joined by Zack Pace - Senior Vice President of Benefits Consulting at CBIZ. Zack joins the program to discuss the impact the Affordable Health Care Act will have on small businesses.

MRW Podcast - Greg Valliere (Guest)

This week, Drew and Tim are joined by political strategist Greg Valliere discussing the Fiscal Cliff. With over 30 years of experience in covering Washington for institutional investors, Greg Valliere coordinates political and economic research for Potomac Research Group. He focuses on how Congress and the White House shape fiscal policies and monitors the Federal Reserve Board’s interest rate policies. Prior to joining Potomac Research, Mr. Valliere served as Chief Policy Strategist for Soleil Securities Corporation. He previously held key strategy roles at Charles Schwab’s Washington Research Group and The Washington Forum. Mr. Valliere co-founded The Washington Forum in 1974, serving as Chief Political Analyst and editor of the group’s publications, and ultimately as Research Director.

MRW Podcast - Dr. Richard Vedder (Guest)

This week, Drew is joined on the air by Dr. Richard Vedder who authored the article Federal Student Aid and the Law of Unintended Consequences. Dr. Richard Vedder is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He has written extensively on labor issues, authoring such books asThe American Economy in Historical Perspective and, with Lowell Gallaway,Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America. Vedder has written over 100 scholarly papers published in academic journals and books, and his work has also appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines including the Wall Street Journal,Washington Post, Investor's Business Daily, Christian Science Monitor, and USA Today. Vedder has been an economist with the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, with which he maintains a consulting relationship. He has served as the John M. Olin Visiting Professor of Labor Economics and Public Policy at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis and has taught or lectured at many other universities.

MRW Podcast - James Rickards (Guest)

This week, Drew is joined by James Rickards, author of the book Currency Wars. James G. Rickards is a seasoned counselor, investment banker and risk manager with over thirty-five years experience in capital markets including all aspects of portfolio management, risk management, product structure, financing, regulation and operations. Mr. Rickards’ market experience is focused in alternative investing and derivatives in global markets. He has also served as General Counsel at several alternative asset management companies and a stock exchange facility and is expert in fund governance and international fund structures. Mr. Rickards is a graduate school visiting lecturer in finance at Northwestern University and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has delivered papers on econophysics at the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mr. Rickards has written articles published in academic and professional journals in the fields of strategic studies, cognitive diversity, network science, and risk management. He is an advisor on capital markets to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

MRW Podcast - Maryland State Comptroller Peter Franchot (Guest)

This week, Drew and Tim are joined on air by Maryland State Comptroller Peter Franchot discussing bringing business to Maryland. Learn more about Mr. Franchot and his work HERE.

MRW Podcast - Dan Zevin (Guest)

This week, Drew and Tim are joined on air by Dan Zevin, author of the book Dan Gets A Minivan. Get more info on Dan and his book at www.DanZevin.com. Dan Zevin’s latest book is Dan Gets a Minivan: Life at the Intersection of Dude and Dad (Scribner, 2012), which has been optioned by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions along with his previous book, The Day I Turned Uncool. A finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, Dan has followed his readers through each phase of life, from post-college coping (Entry-Level Life) to tying the knot (The Nearly-wed Handbook) to developing a disturbing new interest in lawn care and wine tastings (Uncool). And that was all before he had kids. Which leads us back to this minivan situation. Dan has been a comic correspondent for National Public Radio’s WBUR, the humor columnist for Boston Magazine and the Boston Phoenix, and a contributor to national publications including Rolling Stone, Maxim, Details, TheNewYorker.com, and Parents. He also wrote an original sitcom pilot for CBS and Warner Brothers. His latest project is Star Vehicle, a YouTube talk show he hosts inside his minivan.

MRW Podcast - Michael Grabell (Guest)

This week, Drew is joined on the air by Michael Grabell, author of the book Money Well Spent? Michael Grabell is an investigative reporter for ProPublica, a nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to in-depth stories in the public interest.  His investigative work has included stories on President Obama's economic stimulus package, the TSA's body scanners, the Federal Air Marshal Service, the Lance Armstrong doping allegations, chemicals stored near schools and neighborhoods, and a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita.  At ProPublica, his work has appeared in USA Today and The Star-Ledger and on NPR, Salon, MSNBC.com, PBS NewsHour, and the CBS Evening News. Before joining ProPublica, he was a reporter covering state and federal courts, police, and aviation security for The Dallas Morning News.  He has also worked for The New York Times, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the Greensboro, N.C., News & Record, the Times of Trenton, and the Morris County, N.J., Daily Record.  He has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Grabell's first book Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History was published in January 2012 by PublicAffairs.  Because of his expertise on the stimulus, he has been a guest on CNN, Fox Business, CNBC, C-SPAN, PBS NewsHour, ABC News, CBS News, and the Diane Rehm Show.

MRW Podcast - Geneen Roth (guest)

This week, Drew and Tim are joined by Geneen Roth, author of the new book Lost and Found. Geneen Roth's pioneering books were among the first to link compulsive eating and perpetual dieting with deeply personal and spiritual issues that go far beyond food, weight and body image. She believes that we eat the way we live, and that our relationship to food, money, love is an exact reflection of our deepest held beliefs about ourselves and the amount of joy, abundance, pain, scarcity, we believe we have (or are allowed) to have in our lives. Rather than pushing away the "crazy" things we do, Geneen's work proceeds with the conviction that our actions and beliefs make exquisite sense, and that the way to transform our relationship with food is to be open, curious and kind with ourselves-instead of punishing, impatient and harsh. In the past thirty years, she has worked with hundreds of thousands of people using meditation, inquiry, and a set of seven eating guidelines that are the foundation of natural eating.

MRW Podcast - Dr. John B. Taylor (guest)

This week, Drew is joined on the air by Dr. John B. Taylor, author of First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity. John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution. He is Director of the Stanford Introductory Economics Center. He formerly served as director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, where he is now a senior fellow. Taylor’s academic fields of expertise are macroeconomics, monetary economics, and international economics. He is known for his research on the foundations of modern monetary theory and policy, which has been applied by central banks and financial market analysts around the world. He has an active interest in public policy. He served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1976 to 1977, as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1991. He was also a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Economic Advisers from 1995 to 2001. Taylor served as a member of the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1996-98 and 2005-10.