Featured Keynote Programs
Shifting sands - How the global economic policy environment will create opportunities and risks for American business
Tom Landstreet advises audiences to be careful and to improve their efficiency now as the future is more uncertain than at any time in decades. It's time to contemplate the unthinkable as surging global sovereign debt, rising interest rates, inflation, trade wars, "hot" wars and asset price bubbles create shifting sands for investors, businesses and families.
Booms and Busts don’t happen in a vacuum
Tom probes the great economic cycles of the U.S. over the last 100 years. He describes the factors that created the great depression and how bad policies deepened and prolonged the agony. He analyzes the "go-go sixties," the great inflation of the 1970s, the Reagan/Clinton bull market and more. He proves that government economic policies are to blame for these outsized economic cycles.
Some of these policies are so absurd that they verge on comical yet they come from (theoretically) the smartest people in our society. This is a content rich and very humorous economics lesson.
Neither political party has a monopoly on bad ideas - how partisanship clouds thinking
Tom reviews some of the most ill-advised policy mistakes from the last 50 years. This talk is both hilarious… and disheartening. Neither political party escapes his scathing criticism in this non-partisan expose. The brightest and most accomplished thinkers in our culture (politicians and their advisors) have conceived some twisted policy ideas which, in hindsight, created great mayhem in the real economy.