It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

Precious – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

The financial markets go up and down. The value of real estate goes up and down. The dollar strengthens and weakens. Financial advisors have a wide range of theories of risk versus diversification that they say can either make you a fortune, or hedge your bets. Through all this noise, there are investor voices who continue to say just two words. “Buy gold.” Is that good advice? Or is that just as risky as anything else?

brien lundin

One of the country’s leading experts on gold has been editing an industry newsletter called, simply, The Gold Newsletter for over two decades. His name is Brien Lundin. He happens to be a New Orleanian. And in an even greater stroke of good fortune he’s Peter Ricchiuti’s guest on this edition of Out to Lunch.

tiffany adler

If you want to wear gold, rather than just buy it, you could turn to Peter’s other guest, Tiffany Adler. Tiffany is Vice President and 4th generation of her family business, called simply, Adler’s.

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Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.

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