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About the Author

Bob Sellers has worked as a journalist for 20 years, including nine as an anchor at the national level with CNBC and Fox News Channel. At CNBC, he anchored three hours a day and reported on Wall Street during the dot-com buildup and collapse. At FNC he anchored daytime programs covering general news and international politics, interviewing everyone from Benjamin Netanyahu to Mikhail Gorbachev, and reported live from Baghdad in the early stages of the Iraq war in 2003. As a television anchor and general assignment reporter he has worked in Medford, Oregon; San Antonio, Texas; Seattle, Washington; and Washington, D.C. His columns have appeared in various magazines and newspapers, and he has worked as a financial consultant for Merrill Lynch and Shearson Lehman Hutton. He has appeared as a financial guest on CNBC and Fox Business Network, and has contributed to public radio's Marketplace Radio. He was drafted to play professional baseball out of high school by the Kansas City Royals, but chose to attend the University of Virginia instead. He has served on the Board of Advisors for the University's Media Studies Department. He now lives in Nashville with his wife, Anna, and their twin daughters. His web site is Bobsellers.net.