Economic Breakfast Preview 2014
Hosted by: Laura Hawley Special guest: Steve McTaggart
January 15, 2014Host
Laura Hawley – CFP®, President at Allen & Company
Co-Host:
Steve McTaggart – Vice-President of Investments / Financial Advisor at Allen & Company
Guest
Brian Wesbury – Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P.
Tony Villamil, PhD. – Co-Founder and Principle of the Washington Economics Group, Inc.
Today’s show will highlight the 2014 Economic Forecast Breakfast, and look back at the 2013 Economic Season, and a preview of the 2014 Economic outlook and welcome special guest Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P. and Tony Villamil, PhD., Co-Founder and Principle of the Washington Economics Group, Inc.
In this episode we cover:
- Preview of the 2014 Economic outlook with Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P. and Tony Villamil, PhD., Co-Founder and Principle of the Washington Economics Group, Inc. (:40)
- Post traumatic stress disorder. (1:36)
- What is good for the US is better for Florida. (3:15)
- America on (economic) steroids. (4:40)
- Fracking, 3D printing, tablet, apps drive the economy (5:20)
- It wasn’t just the pooling of mortgages that lead to the Housing Market Crash (8:20)
- Quantitative Easing and ending it (12:00)
- Hyper Inflation, Gold and the ineffectiveness of Quantitative Easing (16:45)
- The Four Percent Growth Project as explained Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P. (21:53)
- Economics, Politics, and Predictions for the Economic Market in 2014 (32:10)
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Laura Hawley – CFP®, Senior Vice President at Allen & Company
Allen & Company – Laura Hawley
Steve McTaggart – Vice-President of Investments / Financial Advisor at Allen & Company
Allen & Company – Steve McTaggart
Brian Wesbury – Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P.
LinkedIn – Brian Wesbury
Twitter – Brian Wesbury
Tony Villamil, PhD. – Co-Founder and Principle of the Washington Economics Group, Inc.
WEG – Tony Villamil, PhD.
LinkedIn – Tony Villamil, PhD.
Business Economics – Tony Villamil, PhD.
