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Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson is a distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC), a Wall Street Analyst, consultant, and president of The Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET). He is also Chief Economic Advisor to the Reform Task Force Latvia (RTFL) and author of America’s Protectionist Takeoff and Super Imperialism – New Edition: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance. His website is michael-hudson.com. Several books by Michael:

John Rubino

John Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney’s James Turk, of The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It: Make a Fortune by Investing in Gold and Other Hard Assets, and author of Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom,How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust: Money-Making Strategies for the End of the Housing Bubble, Main Street, Not Wall Street: Investing Close To Home--the Smart Way To Make More Money

After earning a Finance MBA from New York University, he spent the 1980s on Wall Street, as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990s, John was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a frequent contributor to Individual Investor, Online Investor, and Consumers Digest, among many other publications. He now writes for CFA Magazine and manages and writes and edits at the terrific websites DollarCollapse.com and GreenStockInvesting.com.

John discussed the U.S. dollar and clean technology in his interview with me several month’s ago, here.

Robert Reich

Robert Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written twelve books, including the following. His "Marketplace" commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes.

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future, Supercapitalism and The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy and Locked in the Cabinet.

James Howard Kunstler

Mr. Kunstler worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books full-time. His books include Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century and World Made by Hand: A Novel. He is the author of many other books and also a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues.

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Micheal Pettis

Michael Pettis is a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a finance professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he specializes in Chinese financial markets. He has taught, from 2002 to 2004, at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management and, from 1992 to 2001, at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. He is also Chief Strategist at Shenyin Wanguo Securities (HK). Michael is also the author of the book The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economics and the Threat of Financial Collapse. More here.>

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson

Vitaliy N. Katsenelson is a portfolio manager/director of research at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colo. He is the author of "Active Value Investing: Making Money in Range-Bound Markets (Wiley Finance)" (Wiley 2007). For more by Vitaliy, visit his website, Contrarian Edge.

Chopshop’s (at Fibrozachi) Favorite book on Trading:

Antonio Damasio

Self Comes To Mind -- very interesting interview with eminent neuroscientist Antonio Damasio. Antonio Damasio pioneered several important themes in studying the mind and consciousness, including the importance of emotion. - Ilene

Books by Antonio Damasio: Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain (new), Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain, The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness and Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain.

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