Fri, March 14, 2025

Blu Putnam: Risk vs. Uncertainty

Lyric Hughes Hale talks markets, economics, and geopolitics with Bluford "Blu" Putnam, a distinguished economist with over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, encompassing roles in central banking, investment research, and portfolio management. Among other roles, he served as Chief Economist at CME Group. Given current market and policy volatility, he says that it is important to distinguish between uncertainty and risk.  They also talk about his new book, “The Apprenticeship of Warren Buffet”.

Wed, January 29, 2025

Kerry Brown: Why Taiwan Matters

In Episode 66 of The Hale Report, Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Kerry Brown. His new book Why Taiwan Matters: A Short History of a Small Island that will Dictate Our Future was released today in the US. It is sobering and, I think, realistic. Professor Brown doesn’t see a way out of the current status quo in Taiwan: “For today, strenuous defence of the stalemate is all that we can meaningfully do. Anything else is insanity.”

Mon, December 09, 2024

Episode 65: Rebecca Patterson

My guest today is Rebecca Patterson, a distinguished American economist and investment strategist with over 25 years of experience analyzing the intersection of politics, policy, and economic trends in financial markets.

Thu, December 05, 2024

Episode 64: Ed Yardeni

Dr. Ed Yardeni is a distinguished economist and investment strategist with over four decades of experience analyzing global financial markets. He is the President of Yardeni Research, Inc., a firm specializing in global investment strategies and asset-allocation analyses.

Wed, November 20, 2024

Episode 63: Jesper Koll

My guest is economist Jesper Koll, and our topic is Japan. We will be discussing how Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's recent election has introduced significant shifts in Japan's political and economic landscape.

Wed, November 06, 2024

Episode 62: Jason Furman

Welcome to the 62nd episode of the Hale Report. My name is Lyric Hughes Hale, and I am editor-in-chief of EconVue and your host today, Friday, Nov 1st, 2024. My guest is Jason Furman. Professor Furman is the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy jointly at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and the Department of Economics at Harvard University.

Tue, October 22, 2024

Episode 61: Brian Wesbury

On the 61st episode of the Hale Report, Lyric Hughes Hale welcomes Brian Wesbury. Chief economist at First Trust LP, he has advised the Federal Reserve and Congress. Mr Wesbury is a well-known business economist and a contrarian pundit on global economic issues, and a frequent media commentator.

Thu, September 26, 2024

Episode 60: Marc Faber

Lyric Hughes Hale, editor-in-chief of econVue interviews Marc Faber. • Marc Faber is a legendary Swiss-born investment analyst and fund manager. His academic background in economics, combined with years of hands-on experience in financial markets, has helped shape his analytical style. • He is known for his contrarian views on financial markets and often pessimistic predictions about the global economy, earning him the nickname Dr Doom. He gained international prominence through his newsletter, The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report, which focuses on economic trends, asset bubbles, and market volatility.

Tue, September 17, 2024

Episode 59: John Mauldin

My guest is a household name in the world of finance, John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics. As you'll hear from our lighthearted banter on serious topics, John and I go way back. Uniquely, he is both highly knowledgeable, and entertaining. He makes complex topics approachable to broad audiences, including more than a million subscribers to his free weekly newsletter, Thoughts from the Frontline . John Mauldin is co-founder of Mauldin Economics. He has also written seven books on economics and finance, focusing on macroeconomic issues and the future of the global economy. His perspective is sought after in the financial industry for thought-provoking viewpoints, and by investors for his personal approach to money

Tue, July 16, 2024

Episode 58: David Sanger

Lyric Hughes Hale interviews David Sanger, national security and White House correspondent for the New York Times. They discuss his boo, The New Cold Wars.

Mon, July 01, 2024

Episode 57: Yohan Iddawela

My guest for the 57th episode of the Hale Report is Yohan Iddawela. He is a data scientist and LSE economist who shares his insights on the intersection of geospatial data science and economics. An Australian, he has lived around the world, did a stint at the World Bank, and currently conducts research at the Asian Development Bank in Manila.

Wed, June 12, 2024

David Malpass: Risks to Global Growth

Lyric Hughes Hale interviews David Malpass, former president of the World Bank, for the Hale Report @econVue.

Sat, May 18, 2024

Christopher Wood: How Can Investors Assess Global Risks?

Welcome to the Hale Report. My name is Lyric Hughes Hale, and I’m Editor-in-Chief of EconVue, based in Chicago, is a home for independent voices and expert analysis of critical global economic issues. ·      My guest today is Christopher Wood, the author of the legendary financial newsletter he began writing in 1996, Greed & Fear which comes with an equally legendary caution against forwarding to others, adding to its must-read cachet.  Chris, welcome, are you speaking to us today from Switzerland? ·      That Chris’s writing is engaging is not surprising. He began as a journalist at the Far Eastern Economic Review, then served as bureau chief in both New York and Tokyo for the Economist. He now serves as Global Head of Equity Strategy at Jeffries, the investment bank.   ·    Chris Wood has one of the best track records in the business. Few analysts were able to foresee the Global Financial Crisis, but Chris Wood did, warning for years about debt securitization. Today, he is concerned about private debt. We discussed liquidity, interest rates and the curious case of Japan, among many other topics that investors are focused on today as they try to assess both risks and opportunities in world of increasing geopolitical uncertainties .

Sun, April 14, 2024

Episode 54: Richard Katz & Eleanor Hughes

Eleanor Hughes is guest host for the 54th edition of the Hale Report. She interviews fellow Japan expert Richard Katz about his new book,The Contest for Japan's Economic Future.

Fri, April 05, 2024

Episode 53: Stephen Bryen

Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Stephen Bryen, a leading expert in security strategy and technology. He has held senior positions in the Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill and as the President of a large multinational defense and technology company. He writes for Asia Times, American Thinker, the Jewish Policy Center and for many other newspapers and magazines. He has published four books on security subjects. Dr. Bryen was twice awarded the Defense Department's high civilian medal for Distinguished Public Service. He was also the founder of the Defense Technology Security Administration and served as a Commissioner on the US-China Security and Economic Review Commission. Bryen is a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and at the American Center for Democracy.

Wed, March 06, 2024

John Rogers: An American Economist in China

Lyric Hughes Hale interviews economist John Rogers on The Hale Report to discuss the Chinese economy.

Mon, February 19, 2024

Episode 51: Edward J Pinto - The Economics of Housing

Welcome to the Hale Report. My name is Lyric Hughes Hale, and I’m Editor-in-Chief of EconVue and your host today, Friday, February 16, 2024. EconVue, based in Chicago, is a home for independent voices and expert analysis of critical global economic issues. Thank you for joining us. My guest today for the 51st episode of the Hale Report is Edward J Pinto who is Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He serves as Codirector at the AEI Housing Center.

Tue, January 09, 2024

Episode 50: Timothy Congdon - Monetary Policy

Lyric Hughes Hale discusses monetary policy with British economist Timothy Congdon of the International Institute of Monetary Research. Congdon believes that the money supply, as controlled by central banks, is the key determinant of the health of a nation's economy. A drop in the money supply could signal a recession. On this episode of the Hale Report, they discuss prospects for the global economy in 2024.

Wed, December 20, 2023

Episode 49: Richard Haass

Lyric Hughes Hale speaks with Richard Haass, former diplomat and president of the Council on Foreign Relations. They discuss current conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, and domestic relations in the US, and his new book, The Bill of Obligations about the state of democracy now and in the future.

Tue, November 14, 2023

Episode 48: Newt Gingrich

Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Newt Gingrich to discuss his new book March to the Majority, The Real Story of the Republican Revolution. A wide ranging discussion that covers foreign affairs, upcoming elections, and the health of the American economy.

Mon, October 30, 2023

Episode 47: Thomas Graham

Lyric Hughes Hale speaks with Thomas E Gorman about his new book, Getting Russia Right.

Thu, August 10, 2023

Episode 46: Trita Parsi - The Iran Debacle

You are going to be hearing a lot more about Iran soon. While geopolitical speculation has focused on Russia, China, and the United States, another country could be the locus of major instability —Iran. The US is increasing its military presence in the Persian Gulf, a move crowded out by discussions of other risks in these dog days of August. On that cautionary note— Welcome to The Hale Report. My guest for our 46th episode is Trita Parsi and our topic is Iran.

Sat, July 22, 2023

Episode 45: Mark Mills - How Emerging Technologies Will Unleash Productivity

The assumption that carbon fuel will recede in the rear view mirror of our electric vehicles just might be wrong. I first began to question the concept of peak oil when speaking with experts Albert Bressand many years ago, and then Daniel Yergin, both guests of this podcast. Then at a meeting in Washington of the National Association of Business Economists, I wandered into a panel session with Mark Mills. His explanation of the resource issues associated with electrification of the global economy was revelatory. It is not just a matter of sourcing rare minerals such as lithium and cobalt for batteries, it is how we will dispose of those thousand-pound batteries when they come to the end of their life cycle. One thing he said really stuck in my mind: “There is no such thing as renewable energy.” There are realities we must deal with in terms of mineral availability and toxicity. A physicist by training, Mark P. Mills is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University.  I asked Mark Mills to join me on The Hale Report to explain his views on the future of energy and to discuss his book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s  Mark is an expert in all things energy, with a broader focus on the technology of energy and telecommunications. His in-depth knowledge crosses several domains, as you will soon hear. He is a first-rank iconoclast whose opinion I highly value-as do many others. Although you might think Mark is a pessimist based on his views on electrification, he is actually quite optimistic about the future. The thesis of his book is convergence- microprocessors, materials and machines will symbiotically create a new economic boom. He believes that we are at what is called a Perez irruption point, the end of the beginning of a phase change, named after the economist Carlota Perez.

Thu, June 29, 2023

Episode 44 : Mark Roeder - Our Choices Really Matter

Lyric Hale talks to Mark Roeder, Australian author and futurist, about his book "What We Do Next Really Matters". Hale Strategic will be releasing a new report on the implications of artificial intelligence, or as some are now calling it, augmented intelligence. To mark its publication, we thought that you would enjoy getting to know more about its author, Mark Roeder. He challenges conventional wisdom about how the world works today, and discusses what we must do how to ensure its future.

Tue, May 02, 2023

Episode 43: Daniel Yergin

Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Daniel Yergin Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of IHS MARKIT and founder of CERAWEEK. He is an expert in the geopolitics of energy and the global economy, and is a Pulitzer-prize winning author. His latest book is The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations was published by Penguin Press last year. The book is actually about the convergence of several maps: America, Russia, China, the Middle East, and Road and Climate maps. They discussed a wide range of topics, from climate change to cryptocurrencies to Ukraine-- even the Four Ghosts of the South China Sea, and the utter serendipity of innovation.

Thu, March 16, 2023

Episode 42: Martin Wolf

Lyric interviews Martin Wolf, the economics commentator for the Financial Times and author of a new book the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The book is a deeply thoughtful exploration of some ideas that might be troubling, including whether the economic and political system we presently enjoy is sustainable.

Fri, February 24, 2023

Episode 41: Brad Setser

Lyric interviews Brad Setser, an economist and Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Lyric has long admired Brad for his deep knowledge of global economic data, and his ability to interpret that information. Brad is one of our country’s most highly respected analysts of global capital flows, national tax competition, and trade imbalances and sovereign debt restructuring, a skill that I imagine is in high demand these days.

Fri, January 27, 2023

Episode 40: Paul Dibb

Lyric interviews Paul Dibb, an Australian strategist, academic and former defence intelligence official. They talked about two amorphous regions named Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, and then Australia’s changing role.

Mon, November 28, 2022

Episode 39: Shannon O'Neil

Today's guest Shannon K. O'Neil is the vice president, deputy director of studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global trade, supply chains, Mexico, Latin America, and democracy.

Mon, November 14, 2022

Episode 38: Karim Pakravan

Our guest today is Professor Karim Pakravan, currently an Adjunct faculty in the Department of Economics and DePaul University in Chicago after retiring from full-time teaching at DePaul University, where he had been a Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at DePaul University (2008-2016). Prior to that, Pakravan had a 25-year career in global banking and finance with major U.S banks, focusing on global financial issues: Country Risk Management and later, Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets advisory

Mon, November 07, 2022

Episode 37: Ali Wyne

Lyric Hughes Hale, editor-in-chief of EconVue, interviews Ali Wyne. Ali Wyne is a senior analyst with Eurasia Group's Global Macro-Geopolitics practice. He is a David Rockefeller fellow with the Trilateral Commission, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a security fellow with the Truman National Security Project. He also serves on Foreign Policy for America's Board of Directors. He is the author of the new book America's Great-Power Opportunity: Revitalizing U.S. Foreign Policy to Meet the Challenges of Strategic Competition (Polity, 2022).

Wed, October 12, 2022

Episode 36: Eric Yu-Chua Huang

Lyric Hughes Hale, editor-in-chief of EconVue, interviews Eric Yu-Chua Huang, who is the KMT’s Representative in Washington D.C., and an entrepreneur. They talked about mainland China and Taiwan relations, Taiwan's demographic challenge and the current global political landscape.

Mon, September 19, 2022

Episode 35: Nell Minow

Lyric Hughes hale, editor-in-chief of EconVue, interviews Nell Minow, an expert on corporate governance. Nell has worked as an attorney for the EPA, the OMB, and the DOJ. She was formerly the principal of LENS, an activist investment firm, where our listeners probably first heard about her. She became known as the CEO killer, and the Queen of Corporate Governance. She is now head of Value Edge Advisors, a corporate governance consulting firm. She has written hundreds of articles on this subject.

Thu, August 25, 2022

Episode 34: Carla Hills

My guest today for our 34th episode of the Hale Report is the Honorable Carla Anderson Hills, who is speaking with us from Washington DC. Carla Anderson Hills is a Californian who was trained as a lawyer at Yale and studied at Oxford. She has an illustrious career as a diplomat, a negotiator, a cabinet official, advisor & director to Fortune 500 companies and institutions. She now heads her own global advisory firm, Hills and Co.

Sat, August 06, 2022

Episode 33: Dante Disparte

My guest today for our 33rd episode of the Hale Report is Dante Alighieri Disparte, who is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy for Circle. He also is a member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Advisory Council, founder and chairman of the Risk Cooperative and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Digital Currency Governance Consortium. Our guest is going to answer the big questions: The shortcomings of legacy payment systems have created an opening for the development of blockchain-based finance. How big is the opportunity?

Mon, July 18, 2022

Episode 32: Phil Levy

Dr Phil Levy Chief Economist at Flexport where he leads qualitative and quantitative economic research informed by public policy developments and proprietary data. • Dr. Levy's research informs the market on global trade trends and helps Flexport teams make product and business strategy decisions to best serve their clients.

Wed, July 06, 2022

Episode 31: Nicholas Benes

My guest today for our 31st episode is Nicholas Benes, who is speaking to us from Tokyo. Mr Benes, or should I say Benese-sensei studied Japanese at Stanford, Sophia and Keio as the Japanese miracle began to unfold in the mid-seventies, just before another guest on our podcast Ezra Vogel wrote his famous book, Japan as Number One. He then earned a joint MBA and law degree at UCLA. He worked for more than a decade at JP Morgan in corporate finance, M&A, capital markets, swaps & derivatives, equity research, and real estate in New York, Tokyo, and London. He served as senior managing director of Kamakura Corporation, a risk management firm and then founded his own advisory firm, JTP Corporation, an M&A and corporate governance firm, and in addition is CEO of a non-profit, The Board Director Training Institute of Japan. Nick will be explaining a bit more about BDTI later in our podcast.

Tue, June 21, 2022

Episode 30: Andrew Smithers

My guest today for our 30th episode is Andrew Smithers, and we are here to talk about his new book, “The Economics of the Stock Market’. I know that this is a topic that interests just about everybody in the Hale Report audience. He is here with us today to tell you that what you think you know about the stock market and interest rates is wrong.

Tue, May 17, 2022

Episode 29: Kevin Rudd

Lyric interviews Kevin Rudd, who twice served as Prime Minister of Australia, and who is now the president of the Asia Society. In addition to his many other duties, he is also working on his doctorate at Oxford and his subject is Xi Jinping. They also discuss Kevin's very important new book, The Avoidable War, The dangers of a catastrophic conflict between the US and Xi Jinping’s China.

Fri, May 06, 2022

Episode 28: Marsha Vande Berg

My guest today is Marsha Vande Berg. I’ve known Marsha since she was CEO of the Pacific Pension and Investment Institute, a thought-leadership organization for senior global institutional investors. During her tenure, she significantly expanded the organization’s reach, and the conferences she ran were legendary, a place where emerging issues for investors were first brought to the forefront. Since then, she has held a variety of advisory positions, with a special focus on India, and reflecting her long-time roots in the San Francisco area, data science. She is also a leading voice in the debate about sustainability.

Sat, March 26, 2022

Episode 27: Eleanor Hughes & Michael Green

Lyric interviews Michael J. Green and Eleanor Hughes. Michael J Green is the Senior Vice President for Asia, Japan, and the Henry Kissinger Chair at CSIS, the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. He is also the Director of the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. From 2001-2005, Dr. Green served on the National Security Council, first as Director for Asian Affairs, and then as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asia. Recently Dr Green was a member of an official US delegation to Taiwan. Eleanor is an EconVue contributor, and a graduate student at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, with a particular interest in Asian affairs. She has studied with Professor Green at Georgetown.

Fri, March 11, 2022

Episode 26: Eric Protzer & Paul Summerville

Lyric interviews Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville on their book titled Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness can Win back Disenchanted Voters

Thu, February 24, 2022

Episode 25: Yanzhong Huang

Lyric interviews Dr Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations, where he developed the first academic concentration among U.S. international affairs schools that explicitly addresses the security and foreign policy aspects of health issues.

Mon, February 07, 2022

Episode 24: Elizabeth Economy

Lyric interviews Elizabeth C. Economy, a renowned expert on Chinese and Asian affairs. Lyric met Liz while she was the Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is currently on leave from the Hoover Institution at Stanford and is Senior Advisor for China to the Secretary of Commerce.

Tue, January 25, 2022

Episode 23: Evan Ellis

Our guest today is Robert Evan Ellis whose expertise is Latin American Studies with a focus on the region’s relationships with China and other non-Western Hemisphere actors. He is a research professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute with a focus on the region’s relationships with China and other non-Western Hemisphere actors.

Wed, December 08, 2021

Episode 22: John Mearsheimer

EconVue Editor-in-Chief Lyric Hughes Hale interviews John J Mearsheimer, an eminent author and political scientist. Professor Mearsheimer has written extensively about security issues and international politics more generally. He has published six books, and he was invited here today to discuss his most recent article in Foreign Affairs, “The Inevitable Rivalry: America, China, and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics.”

Sun, October 24, 2021

Episode 21: Richard Katz

Lyric Hughes Hale, Editor-in-Chief of EconVue, interviews Richard Katz, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.

Thu, October 14, 2021

Episode 20: Albert Bressand

Lyric Hughes Hale, Editor-in-Chief of EconVue, interviews Albert Bressand, an energy expert.

Mon, August 30, 2021

Episode 19: Robert Shapiro

In Episode 19 of the Hale report, Lyric Hughes Hale interviews economist Robert J Shapiro, Chairman of Sonecon, a Washington-based private consultancy for economic and security-policy related issues. They discuss inflation, COVID, inequality, the 2020 census, China, blockchain and the Internet.

Mon, August 09, 2021

Episode 18: Robert Madsen

Lyric Hughes Hale, editor-in-chief of EconVue, interviews Robert Madsen, senior economist at Hale Strategic. They talk about the U.S. response to COVID, Biden administration's first 176 days, the future of Silicon Valley, Japan and China's changing role in global geopolitical landscape.

Mon, July 26, 2021

Episode 17: Joe Atikian

EconVue editor-in-chief Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Joe Atikian about his new book, Autonomous, The Coming Crash of Self-Driving Cars. Joe is a Toronto author writing on economics and technology. His professional background was focused on the electrical utilities and automotive industries in engineering, design & development, and management. Joe has written about global and regional transitions that have technological, economic, and political implications, leading up to his book which we are discussing today.

Fri, June 18, 2021

Episode 16: Winston Ma

In Episode 16 of the Hale Report, Lyric Hale interviews Winston Ma, investor, author, and adjunct professor at NYU focusing on technology & the digital economy. They discuss his new book, "Digital War: How China's Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace".

Fri, June 11, 2021

Episode 15: Dan Breznitz

The Hale Report podcast with University of Toronto professor Dan Breznitz to talk about his book, Innovation. It seems we have been looking in all the wrong places for the secrets of successful innovation.

Wed, June 02, 2021

Episode 14: Sheila Warren

A podcast on the implications of blockchain with Sheila Warren, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets at the World Economic Forum. Sheila's background as a Wall Street lawyer has served her well in Silicon Valley; she approaches the subject of cryptocurrencies and blockchain with clarity and objectivity. Some quick takes: crypto is not going away, and we are just discovering how it can be used to increase inclusivity, economic equality, and innovation. She envisions a future in which today's money coexists with central bank digital currencies and cryptocurrencies to serve a broad range of financial needs.

Fri, April 16, 2021

Episode 13: Paul Sheard

Our guest is the eminent economist Paul Sheard, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, an expert in both monetary policy and the Japanese economy. Dr Sheard explains how innovations originally conceived at the Bank of Japan decades ago including quantitative easing have been used to combat recent financial crises. He recommends structural changes that could ostensibly affect the independence of central banks, since in practice a merger of fiscal and monetary policy has already begun in earnest. He also weighs in on fintech and innovations that began not on Wall Street or Washington, but in Silicon Valley, imagining changes in the financial ecosystem in the decades to come.

Thu, March 04, 2021

Episode 12: Karen Petrou

EconVue Editor-in-Chief, Lyric Hughes Hale today speaks with Karen Petrou, co-founder of Federal Financial Analytics in Washington, DC, and the subject is inequality. Miss Petrou is widely thought of as one of the brightest minds in Washington. Her research focuses on economic policy, especially in regard to banking regulation. If you don't know her work yet, check out her new book, "Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America."

Fri, January 22, 2021

Episode 11: William Overholt

Joined by Dr. William Overholt, who is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Business, Lyric and Dr. Overholt talked about US-China relations.

Fri, December 04, 2020

Episode 10: Robert J. Gordon

In this episode of the Hale Report, editor Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Robert J Gordon, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He discusses how Covid has impacted the US economy, and what we can expect as the pandemic recedes. Will productivity improve as a result of shifts in employment, or will it remain flat, as it has for decades in spite of technological improvements?

Fri, March 20, 2020

Episode 09: Ezra Vogel & Noriyuki Shikata

Welcome to the Hale Report at EconVue’s studio in Chicago. Today is Friday, March 13th 2020 and we will be having a conversation with two renowned experts in their fields. Ezra Vogel is professor emeritus at Harvard University, a scholar of both Japan and China, and Noriyuki Shikata is a career diplomat who has served at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. He is conducting research at Harvard this year, so both of our guests are joining us from Cambridge. Mr Shikata has also studied under Professor Vogel, so they have known each other for quite some time. We will be posting their bios on our website, Econvue.com as well as links to Prof. Vogel’s latest book about the history of the relationship between China and Japan, Facing History-very relevant right now. Both Professor Vogel and Ambassador Shikata had been scheduled to be in Chicago tonight, to address the 90th anniversary Gala of the Japan America Society of Chicago. Circumstances that are well known to all intervened, and although the Gala will be rescheduled for later in the year, we thought this would be a good time to go virtual and discuss the importance of the friendship between our two countries.

Sun, December 08, 2019

Episode 08: Michele Wucker

Today's guest is a fellow Chicagoan, best-selling author Michele Wucker. Her thought-provoking book, the Gray Rhino, was published in 2016 by St Martin’s Press. Michele’s key insight is that even when we see the future charging at us, we often fail to act.

Tue, October 29, 2019

Episode 07: David Johnson

Our guest is a longtime friend and expert contributor to EconVue, David W. Johnson. He is CEO of 4sight Health and author of a new book, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare just published by McGraw Hill. He discusses how aligning economic incentives with patient needs will deliver better outcomes at lower costs with superior customer service. The market will be won by disruptive, bottom-up, and customer-centric, tech-saavy competitors who will deliver kinder, smarter, and cheaper health care. This is a subject absolutely everyone has a stake in, and Johnson explains in his interview not just what is broken, but how it can be fixed.

Tue, October 15, 2019

Episode 06: Kathryn Ibata-Arens

The Hale Report interviews Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Vincent de Paul Professor of Political Science & Director of the Global Asian Studies Program at DePaul University. Her new book, Beyond Technonationalism, Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia is published by Stanford University Press. An expert in Japan, she spent six years researching entrepreneurship in four countries, Japan, China, India and Singapore. Among her conclusions, just the right amount of protection and openness, combined with size and distance to internal and external markets, leads to the successful competition in biomedical markets. She calls this theory of state Networked Technonationalism or NTN. By contrast, the United States has been the greatest proponent of technoglobalism, fully open borders but now something has changed. In a stunning reversal of trends, China is now defending its use of technologies developed elsewhere in the world as belonging to humanity, and the US is fighting hard to protect its technologies. Perhaps this is important to maintaining its pole position. Ibata-Arens uses a non-Asian metaphor to describe the optimal mix of openness and protection. Janus is the Roman god of beginnings, openings, and doors. Open to the outside, closed and protective to the inside, the Temple of Janus was open only during times of war. Likewise, Asian countries seeing to improve their innovative and entrepreneurial potential have been compelled to open to the outside world, despite the risks to the domestic economy… This dilemma—open and exposed or closed and left behind—presents a challenge to national governments and is the central problematique of this book.

Wed, September 25, 2019

Episode 05: Nikolai Tagarov

EconVue Editor-in-Chief Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Nikolai Tagarov, advisor to the European Commission, about the recent travails in Venezuela. They discuss how the drop in oil prices has been replaced by income from drug trafficking, and how this has led to immigration flows that threaten not just the southern border of the United States, but all of Central America. Tagarov explains how Venezuela became one of the greatest failures in economic history and a contributor to human misery. He calls for a reexamination of the Monroe Doctrine, which allowed the US to intervene in its own neighborhood to protect its vital interests. Bigger picture, Tagarov envisions a new regionally-based multipolarity, replacing the previous unipolarity of the US.

Sun, September 15, 2019

Episode 04: Dali Yang

It was a great honor and pleasure to interview renowned political scientist Professor Dali Yang of the University of Chicago for our most recent Hale Report. His thoughtful and well-researched views on modern China’s political economy are a welcome summertime antidote to current turbulence in the US-China relationship. His books are all classics in their field, and you can find his papers as well on his website, daliyang.org. If you have never read anything he has written about China’s governance transformation, as well as the future of its youngest citizens, you are missing a critical guidepost to understanding the world’s second largest economy.

Mon, June 03, 2019

Episode 03: Jim Bianco

Our podcast this week features an interview with James Bianco , market-savvy macro-economic analyst and head of Bianco Research here in Chicago. He shares his thoughts about the Fed, markets, the long-lost world of stock picking, and the role of cryptocurrencies as a new monetary regime unfolds.

Sat, May 25, 2019

Episode 02: Narimon Safavi

Episode 02: Narimon Safavi by EconVue

Mon, April 08, 2019

Episode 01: Michael Lewis