Peter Tanous is President of Lynx Investment Advisory. Over this forty year career as a finance professional, he has held executive positions at Smith Barney, Bank Audi (USA) and served as chairman of Petra Capital Corporation, an international investment bank that he cofounded. Tanous is the author of several critically acclaimed books including The Investment Gurus, The Wealth Equation, and Debt, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy.