About Us

A born and raised Chicagoan, John Lyke has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois.  After a 21 year career as an AT&T Bell Laboratory research engineer, John started writing and editing The Lyke Report newsletter.

The Lyke Report is a digest of financial news reports and privacy updates.  John is a Christian, hard currency advocate and most recently, he has focused the monthly letter on personal and financial privacy.  He has written several exclusive reports on privacy, the latest being The War on Privacy.  The Lyke Report (formerly called The Economic News Review and Financial Digest) has been published monthly since 1981.