The Hale Report

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.