Hosted by: Laura Hawley Special guest: Steve McTaggart

Host
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)

Links From the Show:

• Allen & Company
• First Trust Advisors
• WEG
• George W Busch Institute

Books Mentioned in this Show:

Tweetable Topics:

The problem is that the Feds started the fire. – Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P.

Free Markets work best at creating growth. – Brian Wesbury, Chief Economist at First Trust Advisors, L.P.

The velocity of the money isn’t there. – Tony Villamil, PhD., Co-Founder and Principle of the Washington Economics Group, Inc.

Connect with:

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.