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Contributing Authors to The Playground
 John B. Lounsbury Ph.D, CFP – Co-Founder and Managing Editor at Global Economic Interesection |
 Steven Hansen, Publisher and Co-Founder at Global Economic Intersection |
 Jim Van Meerten – Advisor to Marketocracy Capital Managment. See his Barchart Portfolio Blog |
 Amy Gilroy, Editor of CEoutlook — Amy has been writing about the consumer electronics industry since compact disc players were first introduced. Prior to CEoutlook she was a senior editor at TWICE magazine for 15 years. |
 Mark Ramsey, President of MarkRamseyMedia.com – Mark Ramsey has worked with several television and innumerable radio broadcasters over his career, including all of the biggest names, from Clear Channel, CBS, Bonneville, Sirius XM, and Greater Media in the US and Corus and Astral Media in Canada. |
 Jeff Pierce, Owner of Zentrader.ca - Jeff Pierce is a momentum trader that specializes in market timing. By developing a proprietary timing system over the years that takes emotions out of his decision, it allows him to be on the right side of the trade. While it’s nearly impossible to eliminate your trading biases completely, there are many things you can do on a daily basis that gives you enough of an edge where you can have success in this industry. |
 Rockford “Rocky” Coscia, Writer for BioTech Investment Paradigm - Rockford “Rocky” Coscia spent time with Pfizer Global Research and Development and with Esperion Therapeutics before attending Columbia University to pursue a Ph.D. in organic chemistry. At Pfizer, Rocky worked in the Chemical Research and Development department working on early scale-up of potential drug molecule syntheses. At Esperion, he synthesized small peptide therapies for the treatment of atherosclerosis. His current research involves the development of new oxidative annulations with palladium and iodine. |
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