Our guest today on The F Word is Walt Lusk and we are talking shutdown, stock market, and the future of America. Walt Lusk has over a quarter of a century of experience in finance. After graduating from UC Irvine with an economics degree and a minor in computer science, He joined a major life insurance company focusing on helping small business owners and professionals with the planning of their Estate, Benefits, and Retirement. Mr. Lusk has worked with a prominent Downtown Los Angeles Investment Banking Firm as well as a Regional Stock Brokerage Firms to assist their high net worth clients in the Preservation of their Assets and Retirement Planning. He was the co-founder of Commercial Lending, Inc. which originated commercial loans (purchases, re-financing, construction, and hard money) all over the United States. Walt began his radio career on KRLA (AM 870), in Los Angeles, in 2010 on “Straight Talk Wealth” where all aspects and challenges of Retirement Planning were discussed. After leaving that show, he hosted “Money and Music V” (with over 100,000 listeners worldwide) where his goal was to “Fund America Back to Work.”