Contributors
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Keith Fitz-Gerald
Keith Fitz-Gerald is the chief investment strategist for Money Map Press, which has more than 600,000 subscribers worldwide. He is one of the world's leading experts on global investing, and is regularly sought out for media interviews and to speak at top financial conferences around the world.
He writes regularly for Money Morning and The Money Map Report. And he is the editor of The New China Trader, The Geiger Index and The Micro-Quake Alert, specialized investment services that set the pace for analysis and investing recommendations for the new global economy. Fitz-Gerald is a former professional trade advisor and CTA, who advised institutions and qualified individuals on global futures trading and hedging.
Fitz-Gerald is also a founding Fellow of the respected Kenos Circle, a Vienna, Austria-based think tank dedicated to the identification of economic and financial trends using the science of complexity.
Fitz-Gerald appears on, contributes to or has been interviewed by such lead media organizations as Fox, MarketWatch, Reuters, Barron's and Bloomberg. Fitz-Gerald was named a Business Visionary by Forbes and was recently profiled in "SuperSectors," along with Jim Rogers, Marc Faber and others.
His own book, "Fiscal Hangover: How to Profit from the New Global Economy" (Wiley 2009) continues to receive strong reviews. Fitz-Gerald splits his time between the United States and Asia with his wife and two children and regularly travels the world in search of investment opportunities others don't yet see or understand. -
Dr. Kent Moors
Dr. Kent F. Moors is an internationally recognized expert in global risk management, oil/natural gas policy and finance, cross-border capital flows, emerging market economic and fiscal development, political, financial and market risk assessment. He is the executive managing partner of Risk Management Associates International LLP (RMAI), a full-service, global-management-consulting and executive training firm. Moors has been an advisor to the highest levels of the U.S., Russian, Kazakh, Bahamian, Iraqi and Kurdish governments, to the governors of several U.S. states, and to the premiers of two Canadian provinces. He's served as a consultant to private companies, financial institutions and law firms in 25 countries and has appeared more than 1,400 times as a featured radio-and-television commentator in North America, Europe and Russia, appearing on ABC, BBC, Bloomberg TV, CBS, CNN, NBC, Russian RTV and regularly on Fox Business Network.
Moors is a contributing editor to the two current leading post-Soviet oil and natural gas publications (Russian Petroleum Investorand Caspian Investor), monthly digests in Middle Eastern and Eurasian market developments, as well as six previous analytical series targeting post-Soviet and emerging markets. He also directs WorldTrade Executive's Russian and Caspian Basin Special Projects Division. The effort brings together specialists from North America, Europe, the former Soviet Union and Central Asia in an integrated electronic network allowing rapid response to global energy and financial developments.
A prolific writer and lecturer, his six books, more than 750 professional and market publications, and over 250 private/public sector presentations and workshops have appeared in 44 countries.
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Martin Hutchinson
Martin O. Hutchinson is a Contributing Editor to both the Money Map Report and Money Morning. An investment banker with more than 25 years’ experience, Hutchinson has worked on both Wall Street and Fleet Street and is a leading expert on the international financial markets
At Creditanstalt-Bankverein, Hutchinson was a Senior Vice President in charge of the institution’s derivative operations, one of the most challenging units to run. He also served as a director of Gestion Integral de Negocios, a Spanish private-equity firm, and as an advisor to the Korean conglomerate, Sunkyong Corp.
But it was Hutchinson’s work in Bulgaria, Croatia and Macedonia that solidified his reputation as a true “hands-on” expert on the developing economies. As the U.S. Treasury Advisor to Croatia in 1996, he helped the country establish its own T-bill program, launch its first government bond issue, and start a forward currency market.
In February 2000, as part of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, Hutchinson became an advisor to the Republic of Macedonia, working directly with Minister of Finance Nikola Gruevski (now that country’s Prime Minister). The nation had been staggered by the breakup of Yugoslavia – in which 800,000 Macedonians lost their life savings – and then the Kosovo War. Under Hutchinson’s guidance, the country issued 12-year bonds, and created a market for the bonds to trade. The bottom line: Macedonians were able to sell their bonds for cash, and many recouped more than three-quarters of what they’d lost – to the tune of about $1 billion.
Hutchinson returned to the United States, was named Business and Economics Editor at United Press International, and was able to jump-start the financial-news operation of that historic wire service. In October 2000, Hutchinson began writing “The Bear’s Lair,” a weekly investment column that appears on the Prudent Bear Web site.
Hutchinson earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, and an MBA from Harvard University. He lives near Washington, D.C.
Martin Hutchinson currently launched his Permanent Wealth Investor service that shows you how to collect a guaranteed $4,201 by June 4th – or any higher or lower amount you choose – in his simple 3 step Permanent Wealth building program.
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William Patalon III
William (Bill) Patalon III is the Executive Editor and Senior Research Analyst for Money Morning, and The Money Map Report. Before he moved into the investment-research business in December 2005, Patalon spent 22 years as a journalist, most of it covering financial news as a reporter, columnist, and editor that included stints with Gannett Co. Inc., and The Baltimore Sun.
Patalon has covered finance and investing, economics, manufacturing, the defense sector, biotechnology, and telecommunications. The companies he’s covered include Eastman Kodak, Xerox, Harley-Davidson, Caterpillar, Westinghouse Electric, Verizon, MedImmune, and Black & Decker.
His most-memorable interviews include: Former President Richard M. Nixon, General Electric CEO John F. “Jack” Welch, Forbes magazine publisher and former Presidential candidate Steve Forbes, and business-turnaround specialist and helicopter-industry pioneer Stanley Hiller Jr.
It was Patalon’s work covering Eastman Kodak Co., during the last half of the 1990s that solidified his reputation as one of the nation’s top analytical business journalists. With his award-winning reports on Kodak’s competitive travails, he consistently scooped his competitors in the national business media. His chronicles of Kodak’s turnaround efforts took him to China, Japan, Silicon Valley, New York, Washington, D.C., and even Hollywood.
Patalon’s work has appeared in Kiplinger’s personal finance magazine, USA Today, and The South China Morning Post, among other publications. A winner of approximately two-dozen journalism awards – including top honors from The Associated Press and the prestigious Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). Patalon is also the co-author of the Prentice Hall book, Contrarian Investing: How to Buy and Sell When Others Won’t and Make Money Doing it. Before taking over as managing editor of Money Morning, he served as the editor of The Rebound Report, an investment newsletter focusing on turnaround stocks.
Patalon has a BA in Print Journalism from Penn State University, and an MBA in finance from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He lives near Baltimore.
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Jon D. Markman
Jon D. Markman brings a unique perspective and unparalleled insights to his role as a Money Morning contributor. And with good reason: During the past two decades, Markman has worked as both a journalist/commentator and as an actual portfolio manager. In addition to his contributions to Money Morning, Markman manages The Markman Portfolios, and is the editor of two premium investment research services: Strategic Advantage and Trader's Advantage.
From 1982 to 1997, Markman was an editor, reporter and investments columnist at the Los Angeles Times. In 1992 and 1994 he was a news editor on staffs that won Pulitzer Prizes, the top award a journalist can receive. From 1997 to 2002, Markman was managing editor of CNBC on MSN Money. He received Sigma Delta Chi/Society of Professional Journalists regional and national awards for his 2001 reporting on the Enron scandal, as well as for his work chronicling the financial impact of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. He has also received the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism for his work exposing flaws in the management of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Markman is the author of four books, including the bestsellers Online Investing (1999) and Swing Trading (2003). His fourth book - an annotated version of the widely read investment classic, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator - debuted in late 2009. Markman is also the co-inventor on two investment-software patents.
A graduate of both Duke University and Columbia University, Markman is a regular guest on radio and television, and at investment conferences - sought out for his insights on stocks, credit and the global economy. Markman lives with his family in Seattle.
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Shah Gilani
Shah Gilani is the editor of the highly successful trading research service, The Capital Wave Forecast, and a contributing editor to both Money Morning and The Money Map Report. He is considered one of the world's foremost experts on the credit crisis. His published open letters to the White House, Congress and U.S. Treasury secretaries have outlined detailed alternative policy options that have been lauded by academics and legislators.
His experience and knowledge uniquely qualify him as an expert. Gilani ran his first hedge fund in 1982 from his seat on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange. When the OEX (options on the Standard & Poor's 100) began trading on March 11, 1983, Gilani was working in the pit as a market maker, and along with other traders popularized what later became known as the VIX (volatility index). He left Chicago to run the futures and options division of the British banking giant Lloyds TSB. Gilani went on to originate and run a packaged fixed-income trading desk for Roosevelt & Cross Inc., an old line New York boutique bond firm, and established that company's listed and OTC trading desks. Gilani started another hedge fund in 1999, which he ran until 2003, when he retired to develop land holdings with partners.
Gilani not only called for the implosion of the U.S. financial markets, he also predicted the historic rebound that began in March 2009. And both predictions were made on the record.
In February 2008, Gilani advised his blog followers to "sell everything and short everything or stay 100% in cash." On March 27, 2009, in a lead story for Money Morning, Gilani said the market had bottomed and told investors to jump back into stocks.
Gilani studied economics and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He now lives in Florida and is a managing member of a private equity company.
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Peter Krauth
Peter Krauth is a highly regarded market analyst and expert in metals and mining stocks, with a special expertise in energy and resource-related investments. Using the contacts and connections amassed during years of covering commodities investments, Krauth scours the globe to research all commodity sectors, including precious metals, base metals, fossil fuels, alternative energies and agriculture. A one-time portfolio advisor having earned an MBA in finance from McGill University, Krauth is headquartered in resource-rich Canada, where he now focuses exclusively on his research.
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Jack Barnes
Jack H. Barnes Jr. is a columnist for Money Morning and will soon be running a new trading service that's to be added to the Money Map Press LLC stable of services. Barnes' specialty is "global-macro" trading, a "top-down" investing discipline that requires him to spot, analyze and project emerging trends - and to then convert those observations into actionable investing strategies.
Barnes started his career at Franklin Templeton in 1997. He started out in the company's fund-information department - just as the Asian contagion infected the Asian tiger countries.
Barnes launched his own shop, RIA, in 2003, just as the second Gulf War was breaking out. In early 2006, after logging a one-year return of nearly 83%, Forbes named Barnes the top stock picker in its "Armchair Investors Who Beat the Pros" competition. His two audited hedge funds generated double-digit returns in 2008.
Barnes retired to the beach in Western Oregon the summer of 2009 - where he lives with his wife and three daughters - and a small army of puppies.
He's the author of a popular blog www.jackhbarnes.com, and his "Buy, Sell or Hold" column appears in Money Morning each week. Barnes brings a unique and varied perspective to the world of investing. And his past includes some adventure and excitement, as well. Earlier in life, for instance, Barnes served as a firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, and actually spent four summers living in tents and fighting forest fires in seven different Western U.S. states.
Today, he is a member of the finance sub-committee for the public healthcare district in the region in which he lives. Barnes is also the host of two WebTV shows - "The Global Macro Contrarian" and "The Last Trade" - that appear on the Stocktwits TV network. The videos are available at www.macrocontrarians.com.
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