RANE Podcast Series

In this episode of the RANE Insight podcast series, host Emily Donahue speaks to Bill Edwards Associate Principle of Protective Design & Security Services Thornton Tomasetti. s the third quarter approaches, a large portion of the workforce may be back. But what would that actually mean?. Edwards says there must be changes to the workplace to ensure workers, clients and visitors will be safe as COVID-19 restrictions begin lifting. Collaboration and creative thinking are necessary to address workplace issues businesses may never have encountered. Topics covered include: How do businesses prepare for a returning workforce? For multinational or multi-state businesses what are best practices for reopening?

In this episode of the RANE Insight podcast series, host Emily Donahue speaks to Bill Edwards Associate Principle of Protective Design & Security Services Thornton Tomasetti. As the third quarter approaches, a large portion of the workforce may be back. But what would that actually mean? Edwards says there must be changes to the workplace to ensure workers, clients and visitors will be safe as COVID-19 restrictions begin lifting. Collaboration and creative thinking are necessary to address workplace issues businesses may never have encountered. Topics covered include: How do businesses prepare for a returning workforce? For multinational or multi-state businesses what are best practices for reopening?

In this Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, the conversation is about impending resumption of work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. You may recall it was interrupted last year when US sanctions forced the company providing pipe laying vessels to bow out of the project. RANE analyst, Sim Tack says it looks like the U.S. won't be able to stop it. Subscribe to RANE Worldview for full coverage of Nord Stream 2 at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this episode of the RANE Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to senior global analyst, Matthew Bey. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, a shellshocked global economy and tangled supply chains, it might seem U.S. - China Trade tensions would be on the decrease. Not so. New  U.S. export controls against China aimed at limit Beijing's overall access to U.S. technology will come at the cost of further fragmenting the global tech sector’s highly integrated supply chain network. You can read the article at RANE Worldview. Sign up today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In this episode of the RANE Essential Geopolitics podcast, host Fred Burton speaks to senior global analyst, Matthew Bey. Amid the COVID-19 crisis, a shellshocked global economy and tangled supply chains, it might seem U.S. - China Trade tensions would be on the decrease. Not so. New  U.S. export controls against China aimed at limit Beijing's overall access to U.S. technology will come at the cost of further fragmenting the global tech sector’s highly integrated supply chain network. You can read the article at RANE Worldview now. Start your subscription here: https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

In 2007, then-Secretary General of Liaoning Province, Li Keqiang (kuh-chung), told the United States Ambassador that China's gross domestic product (GDP) numbers were "man-made" and that they were for "reference only." Now, as China's second-in-command after General Secretary Xi Jinping, and as Xi's handpicked coordinator of China's COVID-19 response, Li is in charge of informing the world of China's coronavirus infection tally. The tally, much like China's GDP numbers, have raised questions about whether they can be trusted. Official Chinese government numbers have been suspect for years, with China-focused economists preferring to refer to other measures, such as pollution levels, instead of relying on government GDP numbers. With the global outbreak of COVID-19 and its response reliant upon government numbers, their untrustworthiness has been cast into stark relief. In this RANE podcast, RANE Network experts dive into how businesses can parse the government data to get an accurate view of China, what other methods they should rely on, and how they can best build in the assumption of faulty data into their China-centered businesses. Click Here to learn how RANE can help you navigate the geopolitical, intelligence, compliance and other risk of COVID-19 and more business issues.

In this episode of the RANE Insight Series, some common sense advice on working safely while working remotely. Many companies have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by reducing or banning corporate travel and by asking some or all of their employees to work from home. While having employees work from home will help reduce transmission of the virus in the workplace, it also brings with it some additional risks. As the disruptions from responses to COVID-19 mount, it is important to consider the second- and third-order impacts of the extreme efforts being put in place to curb the spread. In this podcast, RANE Founder and former Associate General Counsel and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, David Lawrence, sits down with FBI Special Agent Brad Carpenter and former FBI Deputy Director and current President and CEO of Consortium Networks Tim Murphy to discuss best practices for remote work and ways that companies can protect their systems and data in the coming months.

In this podcast, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Isaac Weisfuse to discuss his perspectives on the current pandemic and the lessons learned from his experiences working in New York on its 2006 pandemic preparedness plan. This happened as an aggressive strain of the flu was making its way across Asia and the Middle East. Dr. Weisfuse, is a medical epidemiologist with over 25 years of experience in public health at the local and national levels. As a Deputy Commissioner, his responsibilities included the control of infectious diseases in New York City and public health emergency preparedness and response. He led his agency as an incident commander in a number of emergency activations including the 9/11 attack, NYC’s anthrax attack, and the 2009 influenza pandemic. He is now an adjunct professor at Cornell University Public Health.

In this episode of the RANE Essential Geopolitics Podcast, Fred Burton speaks with RANE's Senior European Analyst, Adriano Bosoni. Bosoni says that the COVID-19 pandemic has severely delayed free trade agreement negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom. This, combined with logistical and political obstacles, has made it unlikely that the two sides will reach a comprehensive trade deal before Britain's scheduled departure from the EU single market by year's end. Subscribers of RANE Worldview get full access to all of RANE's content. Check it out here: https://worldview.stratfor.com/. 

In this episode of the RANE Essential Geopolitics podcast, the conversation turns to the Asia Pacific. Countries in the region - from China to Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and more - have had differing reactions to the coronavirus. That has led to vastly different infection rates and deaths. Podcast listeners can subscribe to RANE Worldview at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.