Jeff Yastine
Jeff Yastine is an Editor and Trader at Wealthpress. He brings with him over two decades of experience as a stock market investor and financial journalist at the heart of financial world events. Yastine had the chance to interview many of the world’s foremost stock market experts, entrepreneurs, and financiers. From this encounter, he learned a great deal about the investing secrets of some of the most successful personalities of the era. His reporting also helped identify winning investment opportunities across a wide variety of sectors.
Jeff Yastine Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Editor and Trader
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Editor, Total Wealth Insider
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Director of Financial Newsletters
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Editorial Director
Academic History
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BA, Telecommunications
- Yastine's reporting helped warn investors about the real estate crisis of the mid-2000s and the unsustainable rise of the 2000 dot-com bubble.
- He visited Cuba twice, in 1994 and 2003, to report on the role of foreign investors on that nation’s economy
- He was nominated for a 2007 Business Emmy Award for his reporting on America’s underfunded system of roads, bridges, and other forms of public infrastructure.
- He was also part of a 2002 team of NBR journalists who won the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Excellence in Financial Journalism Award for a half-hour special report on the nation’s bond market.
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He also reported on major national events as:
- the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010
- the financial impacts of Hurricane Katrina in 2005
- the historic handover of the Panama Canal in 1999
- the influence of foreign automakers as they built new manufacturing plants in the southeastern United States
- He interviewed some of the most famous people in the world of finance, business, and economics, including:
- Warren Buffett
- Michael Dell
- Sir Richard Branson
- John Bogle
- Bill Gross
- Wayne Huizenga
- Herb Kelleher
- Frank Perdue
- Steve Ballmer
- Richard Thaler
- Alice Rivlin