Martin D. Weiss

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Martin D. Weiss (b. 1946) is a financial market analyst and a prominent advocate of long-term investor safety. He has been frequently interviewed by U.S. media^[1] for his opinions on the money markets, in particular of the reliability of the banking and insurance sectors, an issue on which Weiss has also testified before the United States Congress.^[2]

Weiss was born in New York, but raised from the age of 6 in Piracicaba, Brazil. After receiving a liberal arts degree from New York University, Weiss moved to Japan for two years on a Fullbright fellowship to study the Kabutocho, Tokyo's financial community. He received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Martin Weiss is the son of Irving Weiss, also an economist, and with whom Martin Weiss developed his bear market strategies. As a teenager Martin Weiss would ghostwrite for his father's Money & Credit Report. Weiss is married to his high-school sweetheart Elizabeth, with whom he lives in Jupiter, Florida.

In 1976, while still writing his doctoral dissertation, Weiss founded 'Martin D. Weiss Research, Inc.', later renamed 'Weiss Research', to evaluate the investment reliability of banking and insurance institutions. Four years later, Weiss instituted a fact-checking function to assess the accuracy of company publications.

In November 2004, Weiss launched his Sound Dollar Committee, a nonprofit organization that demands honesty in government accounting, a balanced budget and sound economic policy.

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Weiss is author of the 2002 The Ultimate Safe Money Guide, which is addressed to the high-income 50+ age-group. The book was listed on the New York Times Business, Wall Street Journal, and BusinessWeek best-seller lists, as well as the Barron's Roundup for 2002.

Weiss is also editor of the monthly Safe Money Report magazine (since 1976) and daily Money And Markets (since 2005) report.