The Economic Warrior The Economic Warrior

Michael Jay Markey, Jr is a co-founder and owner of Legacy Financial Network and its associated companies. His vision has expanded the organization from one location to three, with the hopes to make Legacy a national company. He attained his bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University while playing baseball for the Eagles.

Michael’s accolades include being recognized as the trainer of the year for a previous insurance employer, a Million Dollar Round Table; member in 2010, ’11, ’12, ’13, ’14, & ‘15. He earned Court of the Table honors in ’11, ’12, ’13, ‘14 and ’15 and Top of the Table honors in ’14. MDRT is an exclusive organization designed to recognize those in the top of the insurance services field. In addition to being an investment advisor representative for LFN Advisors LLC, and an insurance agent for Legacy Financial Network, Michael’s main passions are his faith and his family. He shares his faith with his clients and incorporates the values it instills into Legacy’s Four-Step System. For further information please visit www.legacyfinancialnetwork.com

Jeff Deist is president of the Mises Institute, where he serves as a writer, public speaker, and advocate for property, markets, and civil society. He previously worked as a longtime advisor and chief of staff to Congressman Ron Paul, for whom he wrote hundreds of articles and speeches. In his years with Dr. Paul he worked with countless grassroots activists and organizations dedicated to reducing the size and scope of government.

Jeff also spent many years as a tax attorney advising private equity clients on mergers & acquisitions To find out more about Mises Institute, visit www.mises.org

William Bruce Dyke has lived in Beijing, China, for more than five and a half years. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire in 2013, he started his first job teaching English as a second language to Chinese students. From there he parlayed his skill set into a business development role at the education franchise RISE (NYSE: REDU), which was eventually brought public on the NYSE by Bain Capital, a private equity firm based in Boston, MA. He has most recently worked as a supervising editor at online education company 51Talk (NYSE: COE). Will is proficient in both Mandarin and Spanish. He has also lived and studied in Budapest, Hungary, which has added significantly to his global perspective. He has a blog at www.willdyke.com where he shares useful information about China, learning Chinese, and insights behind the giant economic and industrial power of China today.

Mike McKinnon is a native of Flora, Illinois. After leaving higher education, Mike opened McKinnon Travel Services. His group travel business allowed him to travel to Europe and the Middle East over 100 times. Mike also became part-owner of the AAA Chicago Lions football team of the Northern States League which won the 1982 championship. In addition, Mike began to buy, restructure and sell numerous pizzerias. Furthering engaging his entrepreneurial side, Mike got involved in the long distance telecommunications industry as it was just expanding. In 1996, Mike founded College Planners of America, Ltd. He brought all his hard-earned understanding of tax law to bear for parents of college-bound students.

Mike was on the Board of Trustees of College of DuPage for 12 years, serving four years as Chairman. He is a past member of the Executive Board of the NICCP and a member of the Junior College Football Hall of Fame. He is married to the former Judy Bazelon and resides in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Mike has also been featured in Frank Bruni’s 2016 best seller, “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania.” In the author’s words: “A conversation with [Mike] McKinnon is an eye-opening, option-diversifying revelation.” (p. 144)

“I truly have a passion in working with students and parents. I really feel their pain in trying to navigate a system that changes constantly (and with every change there seems to be a higher cost associated with it!) Nothing beats the satisfaction I feel as I see our students succeed, growing from a teen with no direction into a young, contributing adult.”
You can contact Micheal directly at 630-971-2300, www.collegecost.org.

John "Duffy" McCarthy is a principal for MSA Group, a Hampton NH based sales and marketing firm which has worked successfully in the building supply industry throughout New England and the Northeast for three decades. As well as being a successful businessman, Duffy has been a successful yacht captain traveling throughout the East Coast and the Caribbean. A believer in the underdog, "Duffy" is combating the Big Box and Amazon domination of retail with an online service to serve building contractors and homeowners with a new service to purchase lumber and other building products online. For for more information, contact Duffy directly at duffymccarthy@comcast.net , visit www.lumberyarddirect.com or call 508-803-2570

Eileen Appelbaum is Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC, Fellow at Rutgers University Center for Women and Work, and Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester, UK. Prior to joining CEPR, she held positions as Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Women and Work at Rutgers University and as Professor of Economics at Temple University. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Appelbaum’s research focuses on organizational restructuring and outcomes for firms and workers; private equity and financialization; and work-family policies. Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street, coauthored with Rosemary Batt, was selected by the Academy of Management as one of the four best books of 2014 and 2015, and was a finalist for the 2016 George R. Terry award. Unfinished Business, Paid Family Leave in California and the Future of U.S. Work-Family Policy, coauthored with Ruth Milkman, examines the effects of paid family leave in California on employers and employees. It has been widely cited in discussions of national paid family and medical leave policy. Her current research examines the implications of consolidation of hospitals and decentralization of health services to outpatient care centers for the jobs of non-professional employees in these two segments of the healthcare industry.
Several of Dr. Appelbaum’s earlier books – The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the US with Rosemary Batt, Low Wage America: How Employers Are Reshaping Opportunity in the Workplace with Annette Bernhardt and Richard Murnane, and Manufacturing Advantage: Why Higher Performance Work Systems Pay Off with Peter Berg, Thomas Bailey and Arne Kalleberg – were selected by Princeton University for its distinguished list of Noteworthy Books in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics.
She has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including “Domestic Outsourcing, Rent Seeking, and Increasing Inequality,” RRPE, 2017: 1-16 and “Implications of Financial Capitalism for Employment Relations Research: Evidence from Breach of Trust and Implicit Contracts in Private Equity Buyouts,” British Journal of Industrial Relations 51(3): 498–518, 2013. You can find out more about the Center for Economic and Policy Research by visiting www.cepr.net