THE GEORGE JARKESY SHOW WELCOMES POLITICAL RAPPER POLITIK AS WELL AS DNIELLE PLETKA FROM AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE. MATT FERRIS ALSO JOINS THE SHOW FROM THE US GOLD BUREAU AS WELL AS DR. K CO-AUTHOR OF “TRADE LIKE AN O’NIEL DISCIPLE”
DANIELLE PLETKA
As a long-time Senate Committee on Foreign Relation senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia, Danielle Pletka was the point person on Middle East, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan issues. As the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI, Pletka writes on national security matters with a focus on Iran and weapons proliferation, the Middle East, Syria, Israel and the Arab Spring. She also studies and writes about South Asia: Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
Pletka is the co-editor of “Dissent and Reform in the Arab World: Empowering Democrats” (AEI Press, 2008) and the co-author of “Containing and Deterring a Nuclear Iran” (AEI Press, 2011). Her most recent study, “Iranian influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan,” was published in May 2012. She is currently working on a follow-up report on U.S.–Iranian competitive strategies in the Middle East, to be published in the fall of 2012.
Experience
- Senior Professional Staff Member for Near East and South Asia, Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 1992-2002
- Staff Writer, Insight Magazine, 1987-92
- Editorial Assistant, Los Angeles Times and Reuters, Jerusalem, 1984-85
Education
WEBSITE
POLITIK
A conservative and Christian rapper.
WEBSITE
http://www.myspace.com/polatik/music
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Polatik-The-Conservative-Christian/272511109779?fref=ts
MATT FERRIS
Matt Ferris is the Chairman of the United States Gold Bureau, a physical precious metals company headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Company was targeted for takeover by Mr. Ferris and his associates following the identification of opportunities for significant improvement in the management and operations of the firm, in addition to the long-term outlook for hard assets over the coming decades. Mr. Ferris, along with his business partners and management team restructured the Company in 2008 and are now guiding its healthy, rapid growth.
In addition to serving as the Chairman of the United States Gold Bureau, Mr. Ferris is an active investor and entrepreneur; he is a frequent speaker on entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mr. Ferris has significant experience in international business, especially in Asia. Prior to acquiring the United States Gold Bureau, Mr. Ferris founded a consumer products business that solved a significant problem in residential fire safety.
Most recently, Mr. Ferris has taken an active role in evaluating and seeking solutions for regulatory and political pressures that are affecting the rare coin and precious metals industry. In order to ensure that private citizens retain unrestricted access to precious metals, he became a founding member of the Gold and Silver PAC.
In his spare time, Matt is an avid water skier. Mr. Ferris holds an MBA in international business and entrepreneurship from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, in addition to a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the California State University at Chico.
WEBSITE
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-ferris/31/358/a6
DR. K
A stock investor and strategist with a background in the nuclear sciences. He is a co-founder of a stock advisory service VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com.
Chris Kacher is a protégé of William O’Neil. He is known for achieving a total return of 18,241% during the period of 1996 to 2002 which he describes in his book Trade Like an O’Neil Disciple: How We Made 18,000% in the Stock Market co-authored with Gil Morales.
Prior to his career as a stock trader, Dr. Chris Kacher pursued an education in the nuclear sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He won a Charles D. Coryell Award while being undergraduate. As a graduate student he contributed to the confirmation of the existence of Seaborgium and a synthesis of an atom of Darmstadtium. He received a Doctor of Nuclear Chemistry degree in 1995.
He is a certified practitioner of neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis. Dr. Chris Kacher appeared in major business media including CNBC, Reuters, and Bloomberg. He (in co-authorship with Gil Morales) is a regular contributor to MarketWatch.
Loading ...
