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JOHN MAULDIN is Chairman of Mauldin Economics (www.MauldinEconomics.com), an economic and investment strategy research firm, and President of Millennium Wave Investments, a U.S. registered investment advisor and FINRA registered broker-dealer. John is a renowned financial expert, a New York Times bestselling author, a pioneering online commentator, and the publisher of Thoughts from the Frontline, one of the first publications to provide investors with free, unbiased information and guidance and one of the most widely read investment newsletters in the world. Each week a million readers turn to John Mauldin to gain a better understanding of Wall Street, global markets, and the drivers of the world economy. John is a regular contributor to several financial publications and is a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Yahoo's Daily Ticker. He is a keynote speaker at conferences around the world. John is the father of seven children (five adopted) and lives in a high rise in Dallas, Texas. JONATHAN TEPPER is the Chief Editor of Variant Perception (www.variantperception.com), a macroeconomic research group that caters to hedge funds, banks, and family offices. He is the coauthor, with John Mauldin, of Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle, a book on the sovereign debt crisis. Jonathan has worked as an equity analyst at SAC Capital and as a Vice President in proprietary trading at Bank of America. In addition, he is a founder of Demotix, a citizen-journalism website and photo agency which he sold in 2012 to Corbis, a Bill Gates-owned company. In 2012, Jonathan was a finalist for the Wolfson Economics Prize, an open challenge for economists to find the most efficient and least disruptive way to break up the euro. Jonathan is an American Rhodes Scholar. He lives in London but travels frequently to the U.S., Europe, and Asia to speak at conferences. He earned a BA with highest honors in economics and history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MLitt in modern history from Oxford University.