Charles Walters

Charles Walters is an economist and journalist, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Creighton University and Denver University respectively. He is immediate past president of the National Organization for Raw Materials. He is founder and editor emeritus of Acres USA, the Voice of Eco-Agriculture.

Walters is the consummate living reference source on raw material economics. He is the foremost biographer of the raw materials equation. Early in his professional career, he comprehended the national and international implications of applied raw material economics as revealed in the analyses of the U.S. economy by Carl H. Wilken, Charles B. Ray, John Lee Coulter, and others involved in the early Raw Materials National Council.

He also comprehended the powerful array of well-entrenched professors, politicians, bankers, and free traders who would undermine all efforts at educating the American public and its congressional and statehouse leaders about raw material economics. But the enormity of the task did nothing to deter Walters and he has spent nearly 30 years focusing a highly illuminating journalistic spotlight upon the U.S. economy's downward spiral into unfathomable public and private debt and tracing its origins to the errant policies of cheap food and free trade.

In addition to writing and publishing hundreds of articles about raw material economics in Acres USA during 28 years, Walters found time to author three major works on the subject.

His first book, UNFORGIVEN, (now in it's second edition) is the definitive early text book on raw material economics derived from in-depth interviews with Carl H. Wilken, shortly before Wilken's death in 1968. UNFORGIVEN is available through selected land-grant university libraries.

His second book, RAW MATERIAL ECONOMICS: A NORM PRIMER, (Still in print. Can be ordered from NORM.), abbreviates and updates the status of raw material economics into the mid-1980s.

He also authored a paperback bookette entitled: PARITY -- The Key to Prosperity Unlimited.

Fred Lundgren, co-author of The Nature of Wealth, paid Walters the ultimate compliment in the book by describing him as "the ultimate democrat, with a small 'd;' the intellect of an Einstein; the generosity of a Carnegie, and the demeanor of Andy Rooney.