The Hale Report

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”