Registrants will receive the conference call details in advance.

This conference call will discuss:

o             Signals from financial markets that anticipate the growth and inflation status of the economy up to three years in advance;

o             the use of these market signals to anticipate performance in the primary asset categories six to twelve months in advance;

o             how the market signals anticipated what actually happened in 2016;

o             the implied current outlook for capital markets in 2017.

R. DAVID RANSON is the president and director of research at HCWE & Co. (formerly Wainwright Economics), an independent investment research firm now located in Cambria, California. Originally the investment performance research arm of H.C. Wainwright & Co. of Boston, Massachusetts, Wainwright Economics became an independent operation in 1978 and has since been renamed HCWE.  Prior to becoming a general partner of H.C. Wainwright & Co. in 1977, Mr. Ranson taught economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He has been an assistant to then Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, and a member of Director George P. Shultz’s personal staff at the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his service in Washington, he was a member of the Boston Consulting Group. David Ranson is a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis in Dallas and a Fellow of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and Business Enterprise at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has addressed audiences and published articles on a wide range of economic and investment topics, and has provided testimony to a number of Congressional committees. His work has been mentioned or appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Barron’s, the Economist, Forbes, the Christian Science Monitor and other publications. He holds M.A. and B.Sc. degrees from Queen’s College, Oxford, and an M.B.A. in finance and a Ph.D. in business economics from the University of Chicago.

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