Bringing Adam Smith into the American Home

Jack Ryan has been described as the renegade of the $3 trillion residential real estate industry. He is the co-founder of REX—the digital alternative to the Realtor™. Jack began interacting with the US Department of Justice and State Attorneys General Offices in 2018. He has successfully pointed out that the price-fix engineered by the realty industry is a cartel larger than OPEC in terms of the amount of money transferred from middle-class Americans to industry. His commentary had been published in the Wall Street Journal and by prominent antitrust organizations. Jack has founded other successful companies and has served on the boards of private and public companies. Prior to these business activities, Jack taught at Hales Franciscan High School on Chicago’s south side. Before joining Hales Franciscan High School, he was a partner at Goldman Sachs & Co where he worked from 1985 to 2001. He participated in both investment banking and securities trading activities. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College summa cum laude, and Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School with honors. He currently resides in Austin, Texas. John Tamny is president of the Parkview Institute, editor of RealClearMarkets, a senior fellow at the Market Institute, and senior economic adviser to mutual fund firm Applied Finance Group.  He frequently writes about the securities markets, along with tax, trade, and monetary policy issues that impact those markets for a variety of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and RealClearMarkets. Tamny is the author of six books. His latest is The Money Confusion (All Seasons Press). Others are When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason (Post Hill Press), which was released in 2021, Popular Economics (Regnery, 2015), a primer on economics, Who Needs the Fed? (Encounter Books, 2016) about the central bank’s onrushing economic irrelevance, The End of Work (Regnery, 2018), which discusses the exciting evolution of jobs that don’t feel at all like work, along with 2019’s They’re Both Wrong: A Policy Guide for America's Frustrated Independent Thinkers (AIER).