New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Ravi Batra joins the conversation. Dr. Batra is a professor of economics at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is the author of five international bestsellers and was ranked third in a group of a superstar economists, selected from American and Canadian universities, and featured in the academic publication Economic Inquiry. In 1990, the Italian prime minister awarded him a medal of the Italian Senate for writing a book that correctly predicted the downfall of Soviet communism 15 years before it happened. Dr. Batra has been featured in newspapers and magazines such as the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Time, Newsweek, the U.S. News and World Report. And he has appeared regularly on major networks, including CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC, CNBC Fox Business Network and MSNBC, to name a few. Special Guest Co-host, Jay Gokhale, joins the show and conversation. Jay Gokhale is a graduate of The Columbus Academy in Columbus, Ohio, and is a Sophomore at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois majoring in Economics.