Featured Speakers:

G. Edward Griffin is a writer and documentary film producer with many successful titles to his credit. He is the famed author and researcher of the book The Creature from Jekyll Island, an in depth look at the Federal Reserve System.    

Mr. Griffin is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he majored in speech and communications. Mr. Griffin also obtained his CFP designation (Certified Financial Planner) in 1989 from the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado.

Mr. Griffin is a recipient of the coveted Telly Award for excellence in television production. He is also a Contributing Editor of The New American magazine, and is President of American Media, a publishing and video production company in Southern California. He has served on the board of directors of The National Health Federation and The International Association of Cancer Victors and Friends and is Founder and President of The Cancer Cure Foundation. He is also the founder and president of Freedom Force International.

Catherine Austin Fitts offers a unique perspective on the global financial system and political economy. Catherine is the president of Solari, Inc., and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC. Catherine has served as managing director and member of the board of Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., Assistant Secretary of Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner in the first Bush Administration and president of Hamilton Securities Group, a Washington DC investment bank.

Through Solari (http://solari.com), Catherine publishes "The Solari Report", a weekly conference call focused on preserving family and community wealth. Through Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC (http://solariadvisors.com), Catherine works with investors who wish to preserve and grow family wealth -- both their investment returns and the returns to the people, communities and environment impacted by their lives and investments.

Catherine publishes a column, "Mapping the Real Deal," in Scoop Media in New Zealand and serves on the board of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA). Her book, "Financial Coup d'Etat: An Insider's Story of How Dirty Money Rules Our Lives and What You Can Do About It," is scheduled for publication this fall.

Catherine has designed and closed over $25 billion of transactions and investments to date, has led portfolio strategy for $300 billion of financial assets and liabilities, and has participated in the private and public workout of billions in mortgage, real estate, and banking fraud.

Robert L. Hale is an attorney, an entrepreneur a builder, and developer. Mr. Hale is president of Spectrum Care, LLC; Vision Management Services; and Oak Tree Decorating Center.

Since 1976, he has been a successful builder and developer, operating single and multifamily housing in addition to actively building and operating retirement and assisted living facilities in the upper Midwest.

He is founder and president of the Northwest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit public interest law firm. For more than three decades, he has been involved in drafting proposed laws and counseling elected officials in ways to remove burdensome and unnecessary rules and regulations.

He served on the board of directors of both the Western Center for Law and Religious Freedom and the Ward County (ND) Farm Bureau, and he is a member of the Heritage Foundation National Legal Strategies Forum. Mr. Hale resides in Minot, North Dakota.