Dr. John D McGinnisis host of "Open Mic" on WRTA (1240 AM, 4:00-6:00 P.M. daily). He is also an Associate Professor of Finance at Penn State Altoona. His personal web page is www.johndmcginnis.com.
Dr. McGinnis holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame (Class of '76, majoring in the General Program of Liberal Studies), a Masters of Science in Business Administration from Indiana University South Bend (1987), and a Doctorate in Finance from PennStateUniversity (1993). Dr. McGinnis is also a CFA® Charterholder and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®).
From 1976 to 1983 he taught 7th and 8th grade history and mathematics at Christ the KingSchool in South Bend, Indiana. He also coached the 7th and 8th grade basketball team there and is generally regarded as the greatest 7th and 8th grade basketball coach in history. From 1984 to 1988 he worked as an administrator at Notre Dame. He taught at the University of Delaware and at the PennStateGreatValleyGraduateCenter before coming to Penn State Altoona in August of 1997.
Dr. McGinnis has an abiding interest in the School of Austrian Economics and on the economic and philosophic thought of Adam Smith. He demonstrates regularly on his show and in the classroom superpowers of economic analysis and moral clarity when wearing his Adam Smith necktie. His research interests include executive compensation, retirement planning, investments, and the economics of age and aging. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals. He has also published opinion pieces in such venues as The Freeman, TheAltoona Mirror, The Penn Patriot Weblog, and WRTA.com. He has given talks and seminars on economics and financial analysis across the United States and around the world, including in ZurichSwitzerland, TorontoCanada, and Beijing and Guangzhou, China.
Dr. McGinnis's great loves are baseball, Classic Coke, dogs [most especially his beloved companions: Borzoi named Ceilidh, Flare, Rugai, and Annushka], Notre Dame Football, and Philadelphia Flyers Hockey. His pet peeves are politicians, un-American football (soccer), and writing about himself in the third person.
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