George C. Christy has over three decades of experience in finance both as a corporate banker and as treasurer of a public company. Since 1997 he has held the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He has contributed to The Economist, The Financial Times, Financial Week, Investment News and the Journal of Commercial Bank Lending. He has written three books: Free Cash Flow: A Two-Hour Primer for Management and the Board (Booklocker, 2006); Free Cash Flow: Seeing Through the Accounting Fog Machine to Find Great Stocks (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) and The National Debt: A Primer and A Plan (Booklocker, 2011). He is currently writing a short novel about the national debt.