Fri, 27 May 2016
Chris Versace is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Tematica Research and the editor of Tematica Investing, a subscription newsletter that utilizes a thematic approach to investing that that capitalizes on my near 20 years in the investment industry. |
Sat, 21 May 2016
AMA 148 - President Nixon vs President Obama and The Man Who Killed Kennedy with Legendary Republican Political Consultant Roger Stone
Roger Stone is an alternative historian who was one the legendary American Republican political consultant who has played a key role in the election of Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to Ronald Reagan to George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Stone also served as an assistant to Senator Bob Dole. Stone is the author of "The Man Who Killed Kennedy - the Case Against LBJ". Stone is also the author of Nixon's Secrets, a broader look at the rise and fall and rise and fall and final comeback of Richard Milhouse Nixon. |
Fri, 13 May 2016
Avik Roy is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is also the opinion editor at Forbes, and has advised Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on policy. In 2015, Roy was a senior advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry; in 2012, he served as a health care policy advisor to Mitt Romney. He is the founder of Roy Healthcare Research, an investment research firm, and previously was an analyst and portfolio manager at Bain Capital and J.P. Morgan. Roy is the principal author of The Apothecary (the Forbes blog on health care policy and entitlement reform), as well as author of Transcending Obamacare: A Patient-Centered Plan for Near-Universal Coverage and Permanent Fiscal Solvency (2014) and How Medicaid Fails the Poor (2013). His research interests include the Affordable Care Act, universal coverage, entitlement reform, international health systems, veterans’ health care, and FDA policy. Key Takeaways: [1:34] Avik's "near universal" healthcare idea [3:52] How the government could spend less money than we spend today, yet cover more people with better coverage [6:47] How much of an impact breaking up regional medical clinic monopolies could have on healthcare costs [8:56] Why it matters that we don't know how much our insurance is paying for medical care [10:58] How Medicaid is failing [13:26] Why we have to think of healthcare like any other market, and not some unique part of society [15:14] The shocking revelation that for as much as the government spends on Medicaid, it might not actually be helping people [17:28] The best way to understand Donald Trump [20:20] How closing the border would lead to rising wages Websites Mentioned: www.twitter.com/avik |
Fri, 6 May 2016
Paul Vigna is a markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering equities and the economy. He writes for the MoneyBeat blog and hosts a daily news show of the same name. Paul and Michael are co-authors of the new book "The Age of Cryptocurrency". |