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John Browne
Mr. Browne is the Senior Market Strategist for Euro Pacific Capital, Inc., a frequent contributor to CNBC, Fox Business News and CBS, and a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. John Browne is a distinguished former member of the British Parliament, where he served on the Treasury Select Committee and also as an advisor to then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on relations with the Soviet Union. A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and subsequently a major of the British army, Mr. Browne served as a pilot, parachutist and communications specialist in the Grenadiers of the Royal Guard. He has 40 years of experience in finance and business, primarily in New York and London. After graduating from Harvard Business School, he joined Morgan Stanley & Co as an investment banker. He has also worked with Barclays Bank and Citigroup and has served on the boards of several banks and international corporations, with a special involvement in venture capital.
Dr. Richard Ebeling
Dr. Ebeling earned his PhD in economics from Middlesex University in London, England. He is currently a professor of economics at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, USA. He was formerly a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and a visiting professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He also served as the president of the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York and has been the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College. In the early 1990s, in the twilight days of the Soviet Union, he consulted with the government of Lithuania on market reform and privatization and in 1991 witnessed the abortive hard-line coup attempt in Moscow in August of that year. He is the author of Austrian Economics and the Political Economy of Freedom and is also the editor of Selected Writings of Ludwig von Mises. In 1996, in "Mission to Moscow: Ludwig von Mises's 'Lost Papers' and Their Significance," he publicized the recovery of the lost papers of Ludwig von Mises from a formerly secret KGB archive in Moscow. His forthcoming Political Economy, Public Policy, and Monetary Economics will be published later in 2009.
Dr. Antal Fekete
Dr. Fekete is an esteemed author, mathematician, monetary scientist and educator. Anatal Fekete was born in Budapest in 1932 and graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest in mathematics in 1955. In 1956 he emigrated to Canada, where he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1958. After retirement from active teaching duties in 1995, Professor Fekete became Resident Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York. Dr. Fekete is a proponent of the gold standard and a critic of the current monetary system. His work falls into the school of free-market economic thought led by Carl Menger and more recently Ludwig von Mises. His advanced understanding of monetary and economic issues has enabled him to inspire a new generation of critical thought that advances the traditional Austrian view of how a free-market monetary system could work most efficiently.
Pat Gorman
Mr. Gorman is president of Resource Consultants, a Phoenix, Arizona wealth advisory firm. Pat Gorman is a prominent hard money expert and asset protection strategist. He has been actively extolling the virtues of honest money for nearly 28 years and hosts "Hard Money Watch," the longest-running financial talk radio program in the Phoenix area. And for the past 12 years, he has produced an annual two-day wealth protection seminar. Additionally, Mr. Gorman is the author of the ‘Net best-selling book, The Value of Honest Money, as well as a monthly investment newsletter outlining asset protection strategies. He is also a member of the board of directors of two public mining companies.
G. Edward Griffin
Mr. Griffin is a distinguished film producer, author and political lecturer. He is the founder of Freedom Force International, a Libertarian-oriented activist network focused on advancing individual freedom. First released in 1994, Mr. Griffin's best-selling financial book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, is a no-holds-barred look into the inner workings of the Federal Reserve banking system, or cartel if you will. Mr. Griffin peels back the layers of obstruction to rational analysis and leads the reader on a wonderfully researched, although disturbing, journey from the very beginning, when the Fed was still in the planning stages, up to the present, where it is now struggling to survive.
Ron Holland
Mr. Holland is a contributing editor to the financial newsletter, Swiss Confidential. Ron Holland is a long-time advisor to international investors seeking secure, legally compliant strategies to protect and grow wealth. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of a major Swiss wealth management firm and is co-editor of the successful financial report Mountain Vision. Ron brings 40 years of financial experience to readers of Swiss Confidential as the former president of a Swiss-owned broker-dealer firm licensed in 47 states, head of a bank trust department, international retirement consultant, public speaker, stockbroker and author of three books (including Escape the Pension Trap) and numerous articles and special reports. He has developed a number of successful financial products directly relating to Switzerland and securing wealth - including the first Swiss-franc denominated portfolio in a U.S. variable annuity. He is a strong proponent of global investment diversification outside U.S. markets and the dollar as protection from America‘s exploding national debt.
Nelson Hultberg
Mr. Hultberg is a freelance writer in Dallas, Texas and the Executive Director of Americans for a Free Republic www.afr.org. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Dallas Morning News, Insight, The Freeman, Liberty, and The Social Critic, as well as numerous Internet sites. He is the author of Why We Must Abolish The Income Tax And The IRS (1997) and Breaking the Demopublican Monopoly (2004). He is presently finishing a book on political-economic philosophy entitled The Golden Mean: The Case for Libertarian Politics and Conservative Values.
Dr. Tibor Machan
Dr. Machan is a well-known libertarian philospher. Tibor Machan is currently Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, and holds the R. C. Hoiles Endowed Chair in Business Ethics and Free Enterprise at the Argyros School of Business & Economics, Chapman University. He is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Machan, who earned BA (Claremont McKenna College), MA (New York University), and Ph.D. (University of California at Santa Barbara) has degrees in philosophy, has written numerous books and papers in the field of philosophy, including on issues surrounding the free-market. His A Primer on Ethics, was published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1997 and his Generosity; Virtue in Civil Society by the Cato Institute in early 1998. He also wrote Classical Individualism for Routledge in 1998, Objectivity (2006) and Libertarianism Defended (2008) for Ashgate and The Promise of Liberty for Lexington Books (2009). Machan is on the advisory boards for several foundations and think tanks and has also served on the founding Board of the Jacob J. Javits Graduate Fellowship Program of the U. S. Department of Education. Machan was selected as the 2003 President of the American Society for Value Inquiry, and delivered the presidential address on December 29, 2002, in Philadelphia, at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, titled "Aristotle & Business." He is on the board of the Association for Private Enterprise Education.
William Murphy
Mr. Murphy is the chairman of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA), which he founded in 1999 to expose what he judged to be the active manipulation of the gold market. Bill Murphy is a graduate of Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration and a former wide receiver for the Boston Patriots. After retiring from professional football, he went on to a career as a broker in commodity futures and eventually organized his own introducing brokerage firm in New York. In 1998 he founded LeMetropoleCafe.com, a financial market website geared to the gold market.
Dr. Lawrence Parks
Lawrence Parks holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and is the Executive Director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Monetary Education (FAME).
Dr. Parks was a student of free-market economist Murray Rothbard and has studied monetary issues for more than 30 years. He is the author of What Does Mr. Greenspan Really Think?, a popular book on the workings of the U.S. monetary system. His articles have appeared in Pensions & Investments, The Economist, Washington Times, The Freeman, American Outlook and National Review. He is an active member of many civic and social organizations, including The United Association for Labor Education and the National Writers Union. He is a frequent speaker on what he calls "The Fight for Honest Monetary Weights and Measures."
Dr. Ron Paul
Ron Paul trained to be a physician and graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine. While a medical resident, his attention strayed to the distinctly libertarian writings of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek and Murray Rothbard. In 1976, following a career as a practicing physician, Dr. Paul was elected to fill a vacancy in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1978 he was re-elected to Congress for the first of three consecutive terms. He subsequently returned to Congress again, as its only Libertarian Party member. Ron Paul has run for President of the United States twice, first in 1988 as the nominee of the Libertarian Party and again in 2008 as a candidate for the Republican nomination. His public pronouncements are uncompromising in their adherence to principle, and he has attracted a large and enthusiastic following for his marriage libertarian concepts and conservative purpose.
Staff Report
Staff reports - News & Views - are prepared and contributed by Appenzeller Business Press AG (ARBP) staff writers and editors. The Daily Bell selects articles and topics for their appropriateness from a free-market standpoint and utilizes this perspective as an over-riding criterion. The Bell itself is unapologetically free-market and its perspective tends toward absolute privatization of all money functions and unconstrained capitalism so long as the capitalistic enterprise is not in any way advantaged by government. Additionally, the Bell editorial policy includes the assumption that the monetary elite creates often-destructive, or at least dubious, dominant social themes in order to advance its wealth and power. The Bell makes no assumptions about the nationality, race or gender of this elite (except that its primarily Western) and casts no aspersions.
Peter Schiff
Mr. Schiff is the President of Euro Pacific Capital. Peter Schiff's Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse became as best-seller in 2007. His second book, The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Market, was published the following year. An expert on money, economic theory and international investing, he appears regularly on CNBC, CNN, Fox News, Fox Business Network and Bloomberg. He is also a contributing commentator for Newsweek International. In 2008, Mr. Schiff served as an economic advisor to the Ron Paul presidential campaign.
Scott Smith
Before entering the world of financial journalism, American-born Scott Smith spent nearly 30 years as a member of the Swiss investment banking elite. Much of that time was with legendary investment banking giant Credit Suisse, where he worked as an executive in the foreign exchange and derivatives departments. Over the course of his career, Mr. Smith became privy to the closely guarded wealth-building and asset-protection strategies that have made the Swiss among the most prosperous people in the world. In addition to preparing special reports and conducting guest interviews for the Daily Bell, Scott is the editor of Swiss Confidential, a membership-based investment newsletter.
Frank R. Suess
Mr. Frank Suess is chairman and chief executive officer of BFI Consulting Inc., a Zurich, Switzerland wealth management and consulting company. Frank Suess started his career as a management consultant with Andersen Consulting in 1989. Before taking the lead at BFI Consulting in 1998, he held a senior management position with Price Waterhouse working as a strategic and operational management consultant to a number of international corporations. Mr. Suess is Swiss by background. However, he obtained part of his education in the United States. He has an MBA with Honors from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, California, USA. And he holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Finance, magna cum laude, from Saint Mary´s College in Moraga, California, USA.
Jay Taylor
Mr. Taylor is editor of "J Taylor's Gold, Energy & Technology Stocks" newsletter. His business career began in commercial banking and then extended to investment banking. Most recently, he worked in the mining and metals group of ING Barings in New York. Prior to that he participated in the first large-scale gold loan made in modern times, a 250,000 ounce transaction between Amax Minerals and Citicorp group. In 1997 he retired from ING Barings to devote his full attention to researching mining and technology stocks, writing his newsletter and assisting companies in raising venture capital.
James Turk
Since graduating in 1969 from George Washington University with a B.A. degree in International Economics, Mr. Turk has worked in international banking, finance and investments. In 1980 he joined the private investment and trading company of a prominent precious metals trader. In 1983 he relocated to the United Arab Emirates to accept an appointment as Manager of the Commodity Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, a position he held until resigning in 1987. James Turk has written several monographs on money and banking and is the co-author of The Coming Collapse of the Dollar, which has been updated for a paperback version entitled The Collapse of the Dollar. He is also the founder of GoldMoney a convenient and economical way to buy and sell gold online and use it as a currency.
Dr. Edwin Vieira, Jr.
Dr. Vieira holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School). For over thirty-six years he has been a practicing attorney, specializing in cases that raise issues of constitutional law. He has presented numerous cases of import before the Supreme Court and written numerous monographs and articles in scholarly journals. His latest scholarly works are Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution (2d rev. ed. 2002), a comprehensive study of American monetary law and history viewed from a constitutional perspective, and How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary (2004), a study of the problems of irresponsible "judicial supremacy", and how to deal with them. With well known libertarian trader Victor Sperandeo, he is also the co-author (under a nom de plume) of the political novel CRA$HMAKER: A Federal Affaire (2000), a not-so-fictional story of an engineered "crash" of the Federal Reserve System, and the political revolution it causes. He is now working on an extensive project concerned with the constitutional "Militia of the several States" and "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms."
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