2023 Eagle Financial Publications Cruise

Roger Michalski is the vice president/group publisher of Eagle Financial Publications - which he started in 2003. His experience in publishing spans more than 30 years and includes time working at the prestigious Smithsonian Institution in its catalog division. Mr. Michalski has been an invited speaker and presenter at many conferences including The MoneyShow, FreedomFest, and Specialized Information Publishers Association. Eagle is the publishing company for investment newsletters and other products written by Mark Skousen, George Gilder, Bryan Perry, Jim Woods, Bob Carlson, Jon Johnson, David Phillips, Hugh Grossman and Ahren Stephens. Eagle also has several websites including www.StockInvestor.com, www.SeniorResource.com, and www.DividendInvestor.com.

George Gilder is a high-tech venture capitalist and the author of more than 20 books. He has spoken at the MoneyShow since 1981. Mr. Gilder accurately tipped off President Reagan to the rise of the microchip. He also predicted the iPhone 13 years before its release and forecast the rise of Netflix—more than a decade before it existed. Forbes calls Mr. Gilder a technology "prophet." He now leads his research team to publish several products with Eagle Financial Publications, including Gilder's Technology Report, Gilder's Technology Report PRO, Moonshots, and Private Reserve.

Mark Skousen is a financial economist, university professor, and author of over 25 books. Dr. Skousen was recently listed as one of the top 20 living economists in the world and is known as "America's Economist." In 2018, Steve Forbes presented him with the Triple Crown in Economics for his work in theory, history, and education. Dr. Skousen is a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University in California, where he received the "My Favorite Professor Award" in 2019. He has worked for the government (CIA), non-profits (president of FEE), and runs FreedomFest, "the world's largest gathering of free minds," every July. He has also taught economics and finance at Columbia Business School and Columbia University. Since 1980, Dr. Skousen has been editor-in-chief of Forecasts & Strategies, a popular award-winning investment newsletter (www.markskousen.com). His other products include Five Star Trader, Fast Money Alert, Home Run Trader and TNT Trader. Dr. Skousen's bestsellers includeThe Making of Modern Economics, Investing in One Lesson, and The Maxims of Wall Street. Based on Dr. Skousen's work,The Structure of Production (NYU Press, 1990), the federal government began publishing in Spring 2014 a broader, more accurate measure of the economy, Gross Output (GO), every quarter along with GDP.

Jim Woods is a 20-plus-year veteran of the markets with varied experience as a broker, hedge fund trader, financial writer, author and newsletter editor. He is the editor and investment director of Intelligence Report, Successful Investing, Bullseye Stock Trader, High Velocity Options, and The Deep Woods e-Letter (Mr. Woods also co-directs the Fast Money Alert trading service, alongside Dr. Mark Skousen.) The independent firm TipRanks has rated Mr. Woods the #1 financial blogger in the world (out of more than 6,000 competing analysts), and has been ranked inside the Top 12 globally for more than a decade. His books include co-authoring, Billion Dollar Green: Profit from the Eco Revolution, and The Wealth Shield: How to Invest and Protect Your Money from Another Stock Market Crash, Financial Crisis or Global Economic Collapse. Mr. Woods formerly worked with Investor's Business Daily founder William J. O'Neil, helping to author training courses in the CANSLIM stock-picking methodology. He is known in professional and personal circles as "The Renaissance Man," because his expertise includes such varied fields as composing and performing music, western horsemanship, combat marksmanship, martial arts, auto racing, and bodybuilding. Mr. Woods holds a BA in philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is a former U.S. Army paratrooper. A self-described "radical for capitalism," he celebrates the virtue of making money from his Southern California horse ranch.