The Wall Street Shuffle Story

The Wall Street Shuffle is much more than just another talk show…fast-paced, topical, irreverent and smart analysis of the news and action of the day. Sure we discuss equities, investment and strategies. And, yes, we have only the absolute best national guests every day to bring perspective to complex issues.

But where we really shine is our unique ability to understand the complex financial and political worlds around us.  As we all know, money is politics and politics is money.  In today’s world of lightning fast political and regulatory changes, even the best investment strategy can come unraveled quickly unless you understand what other forces are moving your markets.

We take the time to get it right every day.  Crisp and fresh analysis of the Federal Reserve, the Treasury, our profligate Congress, the whims of the Executive branch, the latest from our Intel communities, cons and scams that could wreck your investments are all daily fare for our crack WSS Team.

We are proud that the information we discuss is as factual as possible. We then take that information and break it down into meaningful and actionable analysis. We may disagree on the conclusions but we won't disagree on the facts. There are too many talk shows that started out as political talk and then tried, most times unsuccessfully, to take that leap into financial analysis. We have always been a financial talk show that just happens to be very good at politics. These differences show when you discuss complex issues such as derivatives, off-balance sheet financing, the economic structure of various governments or the actions of central banks. Every one of these topics is significantly more important that a or from some analyst with the same information that you have.

Our team believes that if we can let you see just a little bit further into the financial future each day, you will make better investments. We don't tell you when to "buy, buy, buy" or "sell, sell, sell" because by then it is "too, too, too" late. See the whole financial and political world with new clarity and confidence. "Look into the distance instead of following the car in front of you." Be confident in your analysis and conclusions in a world of mere opinions. And, given the choice, wouldn't you rather listen to a show that isn't run by salesmen or a financial planner in a bad suit trying to sell you advisory services or some financial product?

We have the team with the experience and education to get the whole story right. "You need to know what we know."

Welcome to The Wall Street Shuffle family.

The Wall Street Shuffle is live each day from 4-6pm CST on CNN 1190 AM in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.  You can also find us on iTunes and we stream live daily from the link on our home page.

Today's Guest

Michael Hirsh - Former Foreign Editor and chief diplomatic correspondent at Newsweek & Author of "CAPITAL OFFENSE: How Washington’s Wise Men Turned America’s Future Over to Wall Street"
www.mhirsh.com

Michael Hirsh is the former Foreign Editor and chief diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek. He is currently a senior editor in the magazine's Washington bureau.

He is a lecturer and has appeared numerous times as a commentator on Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. In addition to Newsweek, he has also written for Foreign Affairs, Harper's, and Washington Monthly.

Hirsh was co-winner of the Overseas Press Club award for best magazine reporting from abroad in 2001 for "prescience in identifying the al Qaeda threat half a year before September 11" and for Newsweek's coverage of the war on terror, which also won a National Magazine Award. He lives in Washington, DC.

Moorad Choudhry - Head of Treasury at Europe Arab Bank & Author of "Fixed Income Securities and Derivations Handbook: Analysis and Valuation, 2nd Edition"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorad_Choudhry

Moorad Choudhry is Head of Treasury at Europe Arab Bank, a subsidiary of Arab Bank. He joined there from KBC Financial Products in London, the derivatives and convertible bond trading arm of KBC Bank N.V., Brussels.

Prior to that he was a vice-president in Structured Finance Services sales and marketing at JPMorgan Chase Bank, a sterling proprietary trader in the Treasury division at Hambros Bank Limited, and a gilt-edged market maker and money markets trader at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Limited.

He began his City career at the London Stock Exchange in 1989.

Jim Jubak - Author, Investment Expert, JubakPicks.com
www.jubakpicks.com

For the same reason you want to go hunting with an old dog who’s been out in the field in all kinds of weather and still lives for the chase.

Jim made his first personal investment in the early 1980s when zero coupon Treasury bonds were paying 12%. (Unfortunately, this opportunity followed close on the heels of a very satisfying but not terribly lucrative stint teaching college after earning a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia. Jim’s lack of capital to invest at 12% insured that he wouldn’t retire by the age of thirty-five.)

As a financial journalist for Venture and Worth Jim covered the boom of the 1980s and the crash of 1987. In the early 1990s he wrote the first comprehensive book, The Worth Guide to Electronic Investing, about what was then a new effort to put computers to work for individual investors. While senior financial editor at Worth, he built that magazine’s comprehensive rating system for mutual funds. (He vaguely remembers teaching himself Excel while on vacation on the shores of Lake Champlain and hopes that was only a bad dream.)

But that wasn’t enough punishment for Jim, oh no.

Beginning in 1997 and continuing for twelve years he wrote one of the first and ultimately the best-read stock picking column on the Internet, “Jubak’s Journal,” for Microsoft’s MSN Money. His initial boss, a hotshot software guy, said: “If you’re so good as a stock picker why don’t you do what no one else does and issue clear buys and sells and then track the results.” That resulted in what we believe was the first online, daily-priced stock portfolio on the Internet, Jubak’s Picks. And that portfolio begat a dividend portfolio and then a long-term global stock portfolio called the 50 Best Stocks in the World.

That last portfolio was the inspiration for Jim’s 2008 book The Jubak Picks: 50 Stocks That Will Rebuild Your Wealth & Safeguard Your Future (Crown Publishing Group, Hardcover).

All those portfolios—and Jim—withstood the technology crash of 2000 and the bear market that began in 2007. In May 2009 Jim left MSN Money to start his own stock picking blog, JubakPicks.com, so that instead of writing two columns a week he could write three to five posts a day.

Some dogs just love to hunt.

A selection of his posts for JubakPicks.com won the 2009 Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW).