The Hale Report

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.

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 secu...

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

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 Enterpr...

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 econo...

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.

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.

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

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...

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 Mar...

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 w...

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: Ameri...

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.

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 restructu...

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.

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 o...

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....

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 Adv...

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 ow...

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 t...

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 mo...

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.