Dr. Daniel Hall is the dean of the business school at High Point University in North Carolina. High Point bills itself as the premier life skills university in the nation, and Dr. Hall shares some of the innovative things the university is doing. As a college professor, he shares a matrix of how he evaluates Plan For America in comparison with the existing system. How does Plan For America stack up?

We have long thought that mutual fund managers are the rock stars of the financial services industry because they get to manage the largest chunks of money. We were therefore thrilled to have Idanna Appio, the portfolio manager for First Eagle Income Builder Fund as our guest. In the first half of the episode, she sheds light on some current investment strategies she is using as well as a general outlook on the economy. In the second half, we discuss Plan For America as a potential solution to a sovereign debt crisis which, in Appio's opinion, is the most serious type of financial crisis a nation can face.

Dr. Vance Ginn is a noted economist who has worked at the state and national levels. From Texas, he served the Texas Public Policy Institute, and nationally he worked in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in Washington, DC. As someone who is very concerned with government debts and deficits, we wanted his opinion on Plan For America and how it can address those problems.