World Class Economist on the Chances of a Crash in the Near Future

Are we about to have another financial meltdown or at least a major crash? Is this the time to get liquid and stay poised to buy low rather than lose high? Please let one of the world's top financial guru's, John Rutledge, provide his deeply informed sense of the current financial system.

John focuses on times the economy is out of wack -- far from equilibrium is his language.  He is Chief Investment Strategist and a member of the Investment Committee at Safanad, a global principal investment firm in New York, London, and Dubai. He is Economics Contributor for CNBC, and Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University where he teaches and chairs dissertations in the economics and finance PhD program. He sits on a number of boards of directors for public and private companies.

John's Extraordinary Resume

• One of the architects of the Reagan Economic plan and has advised the Bush administration on both tax policy and the reconstruction of Iraq.
• Honorary Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• He is Chairman of Tara’s Kids, a non-profit organization that builds libraries for schools in remote villages in China and Tibet. 
• After tours of duty in both academics and government policy, he has started, run, chaired, owned and harvested dozens of companies, and has managed money in marketable securities, private equity, and real estate.
• Too many more accolades to list...