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"Your Financial Editor"

Be sure to join Chris every Saturday morning from 8:00 - 9:00am and weekdays at 5:50am, 6:50am and 7:50am for up-to-the-minute business and economic updates.

Some of our past guests include:

James F. Parker
Author of Do the Right Thing

James F. Parker served as CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board of Southwest Airlines from June 2001 until July 2004, three of the airline's most challenging years. He was promoted to the position after 18 years as General Counsel to the company and seven prior years serving as their outside counsel. He is a member of the MIT Leadership Center Advisory Council at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain.

During his tenure as CEO, he was proud that his organization's accomplishments led Southwest to be named the most admired airline, and one of the three most admired companies in America each of the three years; to be named worldwide airline of the year by Air Transport World magazine; to be named on e of America's "100 Best Corporate Citizens" by Business Ethics magazine; and to be included in Global Finance magazine's list of the "World's Most Socially Responsible Companies." His greatest sense of pride, however, comes from the fact that Southwest Airlines was able to protect the jobs of all of the company's people during 9/11 and its aftermath.

Jonathan Tisch

Jonathan Tisch (New York) is Chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels (ranked 42^nd on the Fortune 500 list), and Co-Chairman of the Board and a member of the Office of the President of Loews Corporation. Recognized as a preeminent leader of the nation's travel and tourism industry, Tisch is Chairman of the Travel Business Roundtable and NYC & Company, the city's official tourism marketing organization. He is the author of the bestseller The Power of We: Succeeding Through Partnerships and his new book, CHOCOLATES ON THE PILLOW AREN'T ENOUGH: Reinventing the Customer Experience (Wiley; March) He is host of the television show Open Exchange and has appeared on Today, The Early Show, Larry King Live, Charlie Rose, CNN, CNBC, and Fox News Channel.

The Late Louis Rukeyser

America's most popular economic commentator. Mr. Rukeyser's TV program, Louis Rukeyser's Wall Street, drew millions more viewers every week than any other financial program in history. He has been called "lengendary", one of the most accurate economic forecasters in the country", and "everyone's favorite economic commentator."

Diane Swonk
Chief Economist and Senior Managing Director
Mesirow Financial

Diane is called upon as an economic expert by policymakers from coast to coast and the White House. She is also among the most quoted on the economy in the financial press. You have regularly seen Diane on the major news networks, CNN, CNBC, and PBS. You have read her commentary in the financial pages of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and news magazines such as Business Week. Be sure to read Diane’s book, The Passionate Economist: Finding the Power and Humanity Behind the Numbers. Her book skillfully breaks down complex economic issues and relates them to real life situations.

Dr. Stephen R. Covey
Co-founder/vice-chairman of FranklinCovey Co.

Dr. Covey is perhaps best known as the author of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which ranked as a No. 1 best-seller by the New York Times. Dr. Covey is an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, and organizational consultant. He has made teaching principle-centered living and principle-centered leadership his life’s work.

Dr. Covey is the recipient of numerous awards including the Thomas More College Medallion for continuing service to humanity and has recently been recognized as one of Time Magazine's 25 most influential Americans.

Harvey Rosenblum
Senior Vice President & Director of Research
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Mr. Rosenblum serves as economic policy advisor to the Bank's president and as an associate economist for the Federal Open Market Committee, which formulates the nation’s monetary policy.

Mr. Rosenblum is also the immediate past president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), a prestigious trade association whose 3,000 members are the leading business economists in the United States and many other countries. Past presidents of NABE include several Federal Reserve Presidents as well as Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan.

For those interested, please review the linked article provided by Mr. Rosenblum regarding usual activities of an FOMC meeting:

Thomas R. Keene, CFA
Editor-at-large for Bloomberg Media

Mr. Keene provides economic and investment perspective to all of the Bloomberg News—print, radio, and television. He is the editor of "Flying on One Engine: The Bloomberg Book of Master Market Economists", published by Bloomberg Press.

He writes the chart-of-the-day story, available on the Bloomberg Professional Service, and also presents it on Bloomberg Television. Mr. Keene is the host of the weekly program, "Bloomberg on the Economy" on Bloomberg radio. He worked in the investment industry for sixteen years before joining Bloomberg.