John D McGinnis is Associate Professor of Finance at Penn State Altoona and host of "Open Mike", a radio talk show on WRTA (1240 AM).

He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame (Class of '76, majoring in Philosophy and Great Books), a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University South Bend (1987), and a Doctorate in Finance from Penn State University (1993). Dr. McGinnis is also a CFA® Charterholder and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®).

From 1976 to 1983 he taught 7th and 8th grade history and mathematics at Christ the King School in South Bend, Indiana. He also coached the 7th and 8th grade basketball team there and is generally regarded as the greatest 7th and 8th grade basketball coach in history. From 1984 to 1988 he worked as an administrator at Notre Dame. He has taught at the University of Delaware and at the Penn State Great Valley Graduate Center before coming to Penn State Altoona in August of 1997.

Dr. McGinnis has an abiding interest in the School of Austrian Economics and on the economic and philosophic thought of Adam Smith. His research interests include executive compensation, retirement planning, investments, and the economics of age and aging. He has published numerous papers in scholarly journals. He has also published opinion pieces in such venues as The Freeman, The Altoona Mirror, The Penn Patriot Weblog, and WRTA.com. He has given talks and seminars on economics and financial analysis across the United States and around the world, including Zurich Switzerland, Toronto Canada, and Beijing and Guangzhou, China.

Dr. McGinnis's great loves are baseball, Classic Coke, dogs [most especially his beloved Borzoi: Vaska, Ceilidh, Flare, Rugai, Drushka (R.I.P.); and a German Shepherd, Jack], Notre Dame Football, and Philadelphia Flyers Hockey. His pet peeves are politicians, un-American football (soccer), and writing about himself in the third person.