Dr. Joseph Tainter has a PHD from North Western University, Studied Anthropology at the University of CA, Berkeley, is currently a Professor in the Department of Environment and Society Studies at Utah State University and is the author of The collapse of Complex Societies.
Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes strongly that we need to be as independent as possible and at the same time, we need to come together in community in order to survive and thrive through the hyperinflation she sees in the near future.