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GeoInvestor was conceived and built largely as a public service by Bill Kucewicz, a career writer and editor, whose interests in journalism and current events date back to his grammar schools days at St. Peters in Yonkers, New York. He and two buddies regularly presented front-of-the-classroom news briefings to classmates forever keen on taking breaks from lessons. Bills first published articles, weekly columns on opinion at his high school, Manhattan Prep, began appearing in August 1970 in the Yonkers Herald Statesman. He went on to work on two New York University student newspapers, the Heights Daily News and Washington Square News, becoming editor-in-chief of the latter in 1974. While majoring in politics and economics -- and eschewing journalism courses -- Bill studied under Irving Kristol, the then-Luce Chair in Urban Studies at NYU. Irving is without question one of the finest men anyone could have the pleasure to know. He also is the neoconservative cofounder and editor of The Public Interest magazine. In 1975, Bill became an assistant editor at the magazine. The day after Bill learned of his selection by The Public Interest, he was hired by Bill Clabby, the late fiery-cum-goodhearted chief of the AP-Dow Jones International Financial and Economic Wires, to fill in nights and weekends on the New York-based copy desk. A year later, his copy editing work led to a three-year stint as an AP-Dow Jones correspondent in London, where Bill specialized in covering economics, foreign exchange, stocks, gilts and North Sea oil. Bob Bartley, the editor of The Wall Street Journal -- and yet another man of uncommon character and kindness -- then asked Bill to join the editorial page as a writer, a role that spanned a decade, 1979-1989, and included a promotion to the Editorial Board. Bills editorial-page writings earned him awards from the Overseas Press Club of American, the Scripps-Howard Foundation and Georgetown University, plus three Pulitzer Prize nominations (but no cigars) for public service and investigative reporting. More recently, Bill was involved in founding two financial magazines: Investment Profiles, where he served as the Boston-based magazines first managing editor, and Dow Jones Markets, a global publication he created from scratch as its founding editor to serve some 100,000 Dow Jones Telerate clients around the world. In between those efforts, Bill was fortunate to work for another man of tremendous renown and generosity, Jude Wanniski, the supply-side pioneer and president of Polyconomics, where Bill was director of Emerging Markets Research. Bill made his decision to create GeoInvestor.com while musing about the future on a Cape Cod beach during the Memorial Day weekend of 1999, in the company of three of his most treasured friends, Jack, Tessa and Samantha Carey. His initial concept was to create a simple Web site, featuring links to newspapers, magazines and various columnists, plus Bills own political-economic commentaries. He thought the site might also add vitality to a then-yearlong private effort to launch yet another financial magazine, premised uniquely on finance-based, classical economics. Once work on the Web site commenced, though, the project took on a life of its own. A vision gradually emerged of a site that functioned as a gratis virtual database, structured specifically to serve investors and business mangers interested in global asset diversification. Bills thought was: If one person amassed all the needed links, it would save others the time and drudgery. GeoInvestor.com was built with several strict criteria in mind: elegant design, unimpeded speed, user-friendliness and exceptional content. Visitors will note, for instance, that all hyperlinks take them to English-language pages only. Bill figured he would go the extra mile in tracking down these often hard-to-come-by links, reckoning that if he posted results, it would spare others the expense. GeoInvestor.com thus ushers visitors beyond the daunting foreign-language front doors of overseas news, government and financial and brings them directly to the English-language pages that provide just about every statistic, price and item of news or information of importance to a direct or portfolio investor. In addition, given the quality of the AltaVista translator, he decided to provide a means of linking to online translations for a host of French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish news publications as well. Although Bill has used computers professionally since 1976, GeoInvestor.com marked his first stab at Web-site construction. He commenced the task by employing Microsofts Publisher 98, which was truly helpful as an early design tool and a repository for accumulated links. He soon graduated to Macromedias Dreamweaver 2, a site-construction program that nicely combines what you see is what you get techniques with HTML hand-coding capabilities. Besides Macromedias unusually lucid Using Dreamweaver 2 manual, three other books proved of immense value: Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours by Dick Oliver, IDGs Dreamweaver 2 Bible by Joseph W. Lowery and Ques Using Macromedias Dreamweaver 1.2 by Dick Garnell and Timothy Webster. On a personal level, Bill is indebted to Dana Hutchins, a fabulous Web-site designer (whose own site is Inforest.com) and wonderfully kind heart, who patiently and expertly fielded a blizzard of questions over the course of more than seven months. Danas father, Dexter, a longtime friend, also proved an invaluable sounding board, as did other friends, such as Jack and Tessa Carey, Eileen Debold and Vlad Signorelli, and Bills cousins, John and George Kucewicz, Georges wife, Cathy Salmons, and his uncle and aunt, Zoltan and Irene Papp. The entire GeoInvestor.com effort, however, would not have been possible without the understanding and support of Bills most dear -- his daughter, Nicole, his mother, Mary, and his sister, Mary Ann. Their unconditional love, infinite encouragement and unflagging optimism kept him going when the going got tough. So it is to them, and in loving memory of Bills dad, Vincent, and his grandmother, Mama, that GeoInvestor.com is most appreciatively and lovingly dedicated.

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