Dr. Steven Porter unravels the confusing—and disillusioning—facts behind education reform. The United States ranks 18th in education among the 36 industrialized nations. He addresses what can be done to improve our education system.

John Schaefer examines job satisfaction for non-Executives to answer the question, “How happy are you at work?” Most people will answer, “not happy at all,” according to John.

Sarah Anderson, co-author of Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession

Sarah Anderson is co-author of the report Executive Excess 2010: CEO Pay and the Great Recession. After adjusting for inflation, CEO pay in 2009 more than doubled the CEO pay average for the decade of the 1990s and more than quadrupled the CEO pay average for the 1980s. Sarah believes this is bad for the economy and society.

Here is the lineup of guests on BRAINSTOMIN’ with Billy the Brain for Thursday, November 4, 2010. Listen at www.BrainstorminOnline.com or on AM 1400 in Ventura at 10 o’clock am Pacific time.

Christopher Nickerson examines regulation in the mortgage, real estate and financial services industries. We’ll look at the housing bubble to determine what steps need to be implemented to prevent something like this from happening again.

Charles Goyette predicted the housing bubble bursting before it happened. He believes that America is on an unsustainable path and that we must take steps—as individuals—to protect what wealth we still have left.