Valuetainment Economics, Released on 1/22/21

Economist Danielle DiMartino Booth sits down with Vikram Mansharamani to talk about a wide range of topics from Big Data and how they are tracking people, India as a growing power, Bitcoin and gold comparison, China, Taiwan and US relations, why we should push to explore more in space and on the moon, a third political party and the belief people have in the US dollar as the reserve currency. Oder his newest book “Think for Yourself.”

Vikram Mansharamani is a lecturer at Harvard University, where he teaches students to use multiple perspectives in making tough decisions, and the author of “Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst.” His latest book is “Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and A.I.”

Danielle DiMartino Booth is CEO & Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence LLC, a research and analytics firm. She spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America. DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Credit Suisse, where she worked fixed income and the public and private equity markets. Danielle earned her BBA as a College of Business Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.

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