The Hale Report

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. Sinc...

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, fi...

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 h...

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...

Lyric Hughes Hale, Editor-in-Chief of EconVue, interviews Richard Katz, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics In International Affairs, the New York correspondent for Weekly Toyo Keizai, a leading Japanese business magazine, and formerly the editor of The Oriental Economist Report, a monthly newsletter on Japan.

Lyric Hughes Hale, Editor-in-Chief of EconVue, interviews Albert Bressand, an energy expert.

In Episode 19 of the Hale report, Lyric Hughes Hale interviews economist Robert J Shapiro, Chairman of Sonecon, a Washington-based private consultancy for economic and security-policy related issues. They discuss inflation, COVID, inequality, the 2020 census, China, blockchain and the Internet.

Lyric Hughes Hale, editor-in-chief of EconVue, interviews Robert Madsen, senior economist at Hale Strategic. They talk about the U.S. response to COVID, Biden administration's first 176 days, the future of Silicon Valley, Japan and China's changing role in global geopolitical landscape.

EconVue editor-in-chief Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Joe Atikian about his new book, Autonomous, The Coming Crash of Self-Driving Cars. Joe is a Toronto author writing on economics and technology. His professional background was focused on the electrical utilities and automotive industries in engineering, design & development, and management. Joe has written about global and regional transitio...

In Episode 16 of the Hale Report, Lyric Hale interviews Winston Ma, investor, author, and adjunct professor at NYU focusing on technology & the digital economy. They discuss his new book, "Digital War: How China's Tech Power Shapes the Future of AI, Blockchain and Cyberspace".

The Hale Report podcast with University of Toronto professor Dan Breznitz to talk about his book, Innovation. It seems we have been looking in all the wrong places for the secrets of successful innovation.

A podcast on the implications of blockchain with Sheila Warren, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets at the World Economic Forum. Sheila's background as a Wall Street lawyer has served her well in Silicon Valley; she approaches the subject of cryptocurrencies and blockchain with clarity and objectivity. Some quick takes: crypto is not going away, and we are just discovering how it can be u...

Our guest is the eminent economist Paul Sheard, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, an expert in both monetary policy and the Japanese economy. Dr Sheard explains how innovations originally conceived at the Bank of Japan decades ago including quantitative easing have been used to combat recent financial crises. He recommends structural changes that could ostensib...

EconVue Editor-in-Chief, Lyric Hughes Hale today speaks with Karen Petrou, co-founder of Federal Financial Analytics in Washington, DC, and the subject is inequality. Miss Petrou is widely thought of as one of the brightest minds in Washington. Her research focuses on economic policy, especially in regard to banking regulation. If you don't know her work yet, check out her new book, "Engine of Ine...

Joined by Dr. William Overholt, who is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Business, Lyric and Dr. Overholt talked about US-China relations.

In this episode of the Hale Report, editor Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Robert J Gordon, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University. He discusses how Covid has impacted the US economy, and what we can expect as the pandemic recedes. Will productivity improve as a result of shifts in employment, or will it remain flat, as it has for decades in spite of technological improvements?

Welcome to the Hale Report at EconVue’s studio in Chicago. Today is Friday, March 13th 2020 and we will be having a conversation with two renowned experts in their fields. Ezra Vogel is professor emeritus at Harvard University, a scholar of both Japan and China, and Noriyuki Shikata is a career diplomat who has served at the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. He is conducting research at Harvard this ye...

Today's guest is a fellow Chicagoan, best-selling author Michele Wucker. Her thought-provoking book, the Gray Rhino, was published in 2016 by St Martin’s Press. Michele’s key insight is that even when we see the future charging at us, we often fail to act.

Our guest is a longtime friend and expert contributor to EconVue, David W. Johnson. He is CEO of 4sight Health and author of a new book, The Customer Revolution in Healthcare just published by McGraw Hill. He discusses how aligning economic incentives with patient needs will deliver better outcomes at lower costs with superior customer service. The market will be won by disruptive, bottom-up, and...

The Hale Report interviews Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Vincent de Paul Professor of Political Science & Director of the Global Asian Studies Program at DePaul University. Her new book, Beyond Technonationalism, Biomedical Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Asia is published by Stanford University Press. An expert in Japan, she spent six years researching entrepreneurship in four countries, Japan, Chi...

EconVue Editor-in-Chief Lyric Hughes Hale interviews Nikolai Tagarov, advisor to the European Commission, about the recent travails in Venezuela. They discuss how the drop in oil prices has been replaced by income from drug trafficking, and how this has led to immigration flows that threaten not just the southern border of the United States, but all of Central America. Tagarov explains how Venezue...