Fox's Cody Willard Will Tell You What Stocks to Pick, and Why It Shouldn’t Be So Hard to Find A Girlfriend In NYC

Like most Imus in the Morning guests, Fox Business Network’s Cody Willard was feeling great, but also scared by the creature sitting across the table, who just moments earlier had insulted two different guests on the basis of their weight gain and hair loss.

But Willard, host of the FBN show “Happy Hour” weeknights at 5PM, is a pretty tough guy, and a very talented one at that. A former college basketball player and musician who grew up in New Mexico, Willard is now the principal of an investment management company. He also teaches a class called “Revolutionomics” at Seton Hall University.

This week, Willard, along with FBN’s sister company Marketwatch, launched a new project called Revolution Investing, a weekly subscription newsletter wherein Willard will make stock picks he calls “revolutionary” because they’re based on innovations in technology.

“It’s a big trend change over the next five years that you want to get in front of,” he said, and marveled at how politics has injected itself into this country’s financial system over the last two years. “I’m trying to figure out how to navigate the changes.”

The newsletter also addresses issues like the still unspent $600 billion from the stimulus package. “I want to figure out how to put a bucket or two in front of all that money sloshing around,” Willard added.

He has been picking stocks for Marketwatch for a year now, and the proof is in the pudding. “We were up 55 percent the first year,” he said, smiling. “I’ll take that.”

In the wake of the stock market’s recent volatility, Willard knows people are concerned with protecting their money, and that they’re skeptical of the market in general.

“It’s very scary,” he admitted. “I certainly don’t have any magic formula or silver bullet to beat Wall Street and make everybody at home on a 99-dollar-a-year subscription feel like they’re safe, and it’s going to work out in 20 years. But I can certainly provide a lot of information, and names, and do the best I can.”

Willard’s got a pretty good track record for success; he moved to New York City in 1996, took a job at Starbucks, and worked his way up the corporate ladder. Neither married nor gay, Willard showed his proficiency for numbers in describing the benefits of New York’s dating scene for a guy like him.

“Sixty percent of the people here who are single are women, and half the dudes are gay, so you’re shooting fish in a barrel around here,” said Willard, who, for the record, has a girlfriend.

For tips like that and many others, go to www.MarketWatch.com/Cody and sign up for Revolution Investing today!

-Julie Kanfer