Author of Financial Shock: A 360-Degree Look at the Subprime Mortgage Explosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis,, Mark Zandi aims to demystify the risky credit practices that preceded the string of front-page disasters in the still unfolding global financial meltdown. He is the Chief Economist and co-founder of Moody's Economy.com where his research includes macroeconomic, financial, and regional economics. He conducts regular briefings on the economy and is frequently quoted in national and global news outlets.

Jordan Goodman is known as America's Money Answers Man. For over 25 years, Jordan has been giving helpful, practical financial advice to millions of Americans. He is a regular contributor to national and local TV and radio shows around the ...

Dr. Lawrence Chimerine is President, Radnor International Consulting Inc., in Radnor, PA; and co-founder, iGrandparents.com. He is the former Chairman, Chief Executive, and Chief Economist of Chase Econometrics and The WEFA Group.

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Todd Buchholz is the economist with a "wickedly sparkling wit," according to the Associated Press. Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the "21 Top Speakers for the Twenty-First Century." "Witty, iconoclastic and engaging" says the Wall Street Journal of Buchholz, while BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of quicksand facing the stock market. He entertains audiences, showing them how to thrive in a chaotic economy, while gearing up for prosperity.

The influence of Dr. Laffer's economic acumen triggered a worldwide tax cutting movement in the 1980s and has earned him the distinction in many publications as The Father of Supply-Side Economics. He is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates, an economic research and consulting firm that has focused its research on the interconnecting macroeconomic, political and demographic changes affecting global financial markets.

Edmund S. Phelps joined the Department of Economics at Columbia in 1971 after several years at Pennsylvania and earlier Yale. He was named McVickar Professor of Political Economy in 1982 and director of the Earth Institute's Center on Capitalism and Society in 2001. In 2000 he was named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association. Phelps won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2006.

Former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist for Griffin, Kubik, Stephens, & Thompson, Brian Wesbury is a contributor to CNBC and Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P. Brian writes for the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal and is an adjunct professor of economics at Wheaton College.

David L. Smith is a Dartmouth and Stanford trained economist, futurist and market strategist whose views have intrigued audiences in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan over the past 20 years.

Frank Cappiello is Chairman and Managing Director of Montgomery Brothers, Cappiello, LLC, an investment advisor with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. He is one of the country's leading financial analysts. He is an expert on the national ...

Gene Stanaland, Ph.D., has been called "The "Will Rogers of Economics" for he has the ability to make a complex subject such as economics understandable and entertaining.

Dr. Stanaland is now the president of GSE Inc., an economics and ...