Meet CHARLES . . .

Charles Goyette spent many years as a popular Phoenix radio personality, where he was dubbed “America’s Most Independent Talk Show Host.” With years of experience as a financial professional in the commodities, securities, currency and precious metals business, he has long been a participant in the national economic debate. In fact more than 25 years ago Charles arranged for a then little-known Texas Congressman to be the keynote speaker at a series of monetary conferences he hosted.

Goyette has often been called on to share his views with television audiences nationally on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and CNBC, including on the Glenn Beck Show and The O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly on Fox News; NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS; and on Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN, where he repeatedly warned before the current turmoil of the “economic calamity the Republicans and Democrats” were creating. 

He has written for a number of magazines including The American Conservative and Gannett magazines, and for CNBC.com and TheStreet.com.

Now Charles has an important new book on the current economic crisis and the bumpy road ahead.  In THE DOLLAR MELTDOWN: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, Goyette says "America's debt is a powder keg about to blow... lit by the rush of bailouts and stimulus spending."

Charles is an inaugural member of the Board of Directors of The Leonardo da Vinci Society for the Study of Thinking, whose annual honorees include creative thinking theorist Edward de Bono, physicist and systems theorist Fritjof Capra, physicist Michio Kaku, and inventor and futurist Ray Kurzeil.

Charles enjoys skiing, hiking, good company and conversation, as well as writing. In addition to writing about economic conditions, politics, and current events, Charles has completed a screenplay on the life of the famous American seer Edgar Cayce.

Charles has two sons, Michael and Steven. He and his wife Ali live in Scottsdale.