E7/ Jim Rickards

Pandemics and Economics – Are Policy Makers Making us Sicker? (March 4, 2021) James G. Rickards is an American lawyer, economist, investment banker, speaker, media commentator, and author on matters of finance and precious metals. He is the author of Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis (2011) and six other books. In the … Read more

E17 / Valerie Hansen

How Ancient Chinese History can Inform our Understanding of Contemporary China (April 8, 2021) Professor Hansen a star professor at Yale University, has taught there since 1988. She currently teaches three lecture courses: China Present to Past (with Peter C. Perdue); The World Circa 1000 (with Anders Winroth); and The Silk Road Rediscovered and the following … Read more