Guests

Tom’s been a “regular” on networks like CNBC and Fox Business over the past two decades. And his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Kiplinger, CBS, and USA Today — just to name a few. After earning his master’s degree from the Department of Healthcare Finance at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Tom spent 17 years as an analyst and Managing Director for Legg Mason and Stifel Financial. In that time, Fortune ranked him as the #1 healthcare analyst in America. And he received the All-Star Analyst Award for excellence in stock-picking twice. But four years ago, Tom took a risk. He became an angel investor in what is now a major player in the medical cannabis space. And that experience changed Tom’s life.

David L. Bahnsen is the founder, Managing Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of The Bahnsen Group, a bi-coastal private wealth management firm with offices in Newport Beach, CA and New York City, managing over $3 billion in client assets.

In the high-frequency, fractions-of-a-penny, every-nano-second-counts world of finance, Grant Williams stands apart with his impenetrable focus on the long-term. Whether it be through his long-running newsletter Things That Make You Go Hmmm…, his wildly popular podcast series The Grant Williams Podcast, or his cinematic, documentary-quality interview series About Time, Grant is on a mission to bring relevant, mind-shifting insight to audiences around the globe.

John Tamny is the editor of RealClearMarkets.com (RCM), a spin-off of the policy website RealClearPolitics. RCM seeks to compile top-quality information and opinions about the stock markets and global economy. Tamny frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, National Review and London’s Daily Telegraph. He’s also a weekly guest on Forbes on Fox.

Dan Ferris is the editor of Extreme Value, a monthly investment advisory that focuses on some of the safest and yet most profitable stocks in the market: great businesses trading at steep discounts… Dan joined Stansberry Research in 2000. He became editor of Extreme Value in 2002. His strategy of finding safe, cheap, and profitable stocks has earned him a loyal following – as well as one of the most impressive track records in the industry. As a result of his work in Extreme Value, Dan has appeared on Money with Melissa Francis and The Willis Report on Fox Business News, as well as The Street with Paul Bagnell on Business News Network.

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997).

John Stossel, American television reporter and commentator, best known for his role on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. Stossel graduated from Princeton University in 1969 with a B.A. in psychology. He soon began a career in television journalism, working initially as a researcher for KGW in Portland, Oregon, and then as a consumer reporter for WCBS in New York City. He worked as a consumer editor for ABC’s Good Morning America before becoming a correspondent for 20/20 in 1981. In time, Stossel’s role on the program expanded, and his occasional segment “Give Me a Break,” in which he skeptically examined topics ranging from education to government regulation, eventually became a regular feature of the show. In 1994 “Give Me a Break” was transformed into a series of one-hour prime-time specials that enjoyed consistently strong ratings. In 2003 ABC named Stossel a coanchor of 20/20. In 2009 Stossel joined the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network as a special series host, author of the blog John Stossel’s Take, and anchor of the weekly news program Stossel (2009–16), focusing on libertarian issues. Stossel’s reporting garnered numerous awards, including Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award. In addition to his activities in broadcast journalism, he promoted Stossel in the Classroom, a video designed to help teachers develop their students’ critical thinking skills. Stossel also wrote Give Me a Break (2004), Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (2006), and No, They Can’t: Why Government Fails—But Individuals Succeed (2012).

Grover Norquist is an American political activist and tax reduction advocate who is the founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform, an organization that opposes all tax increases. 

Adam Johnson anchored several business programs at Bloomberg Television over five years, interviewing CEOs, heads of state, and Nobel laureates. His daily video investment blog, Insight, and Action was sponsored by a major U.S. lender. Previously he managed global risk assets for ING Furman Selz and Louis Dreyfus, trading oil futures, listed equities and equity options. Adam began his career at Merrill Lynch with a degree in economics at Princeton.