Eric Janszen: The Next Rogue Event May Be In The Bond Market−Courtesy of the Fed

Jim is pleased to welcome back Eric Janszen, Founder & President at iTulip Inc. Eric notes that the market impact of the Fed’s recent announcement of QE3 has been underwhelming thus far. He still is an owner of gold, but is reducing his treasury bond holdings and moving toward private equity instead. Eric believes the next big event will be trouble in the bond markets, caused by the Fed’s continuous intervention. He also sees "peak cheap energy" as a limiting factor on economic growth in the future.

Eric Janszen has over 20 years of experience as a product management and sales executive in the high technology industry. He is CEO of two venture-backed companies, managing Director of a seed stage investment firm that enjoyed six liquidity events, including two IPOS and four sales to Cisco, Microsoft, Nortel, and EMC. He also founded iTulip.com in 1998, and is the President of iTulip, Inc. since 2006. Eric is the author of The Postcatastrophe Economy (2010), Harper's Magazine cover The Next Bubble (2008), and co-author of America's Bubble Economy in 2007, and is a frequent writer for the Harvard Business Review. Eric is a speaker at a range of investor conferences from MIT and Standford to Hard Assets NYC and Las Vegas. He has been interviewed on national shows including NPR and CNBC, and quoted in numerous publications internationally. Eric is a University of Massachusetts, Amherst Eleanor Bateman Alumni Scholar in 2010 and serves on several Advisory Boards including Twin Focus Capital Partners and on the Board of Directors of Article One Partners.