Money, Riches & Wealth - The Podcast

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.

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.

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.

On May 30, 2012, Tim Maurer was joined in studio by several small business owners in the Baltimore-area. Joining Tim on the show were:

• Glen and Kristin McFaul of McFaul’s Ironhorse Tavern at Sander’s Corner: http://www.facebook.com/McFaulsIronHorseTavern
• Sean Smeeton of Taharka Brothers Ice Cream
• Mike Turley of Bishop’s Pond Farm

Introduction: A blessing to some and a curse to others

This week, Tim is in the studio by himself but he is joined by a wonderful guest. Simon Sinek joins Tim for the whole show! Simon is an optimist. He believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. Described as "a visionary thinker with a rare intellect," Simon teaches leaders and organizations how to inspire people. With a bold goal to help build a world in which the vast majority of people go home everyday feeling fulfilled by their work, Simon is leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.

This week, Drew and Tim had the opportunity to interview Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, president of the Charles Schwab Foundation, a private, nonprofit organization funded by The Charles Schwab Corporation, whose mission is to create positive change through financial education, philanthropy, and volunteerism. In addition to overseeing the Foundation's strategy and resources, she speaks and writes extensively about personal finance issues, offering guidance and advice for American consumers.

This week, Drew and Tim are joined by Steve Forbes, CEO and Publisher of Forbes Media and former presidential candidate.