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Category: Economics
- January 18, 2015Ep. 311: Mebane Faber Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Mebane Faber, a noted author (The Ivy Portfolio), blogger, and portfolio manager with Cambria Investment Management. Faber is involved in many different areas of the market, extremely practical…
- January 11, 2015Ep. 309: Mark Mobius Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Mark Mobius, Ph.D., executive chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, joined Templeton in 1987. Currently, he directs the Templeton research team which is based in 18 global emerging…
- November 17, 2014Ep. 293: The State Episode with Doug Casey and Charles Hugh Smith with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guests today are Doug Casey and Charles Hugh Smith. Casey is the founder and chairman of Casey Research, a provider of paid subscription newsletter services espousing libertarian viewpoints as the justification…
- November 1, 2014Mainstream Financial Media & Wrestling: Hip Tied
Great connections from Ben Hunt: My point is not that mass-mediated financial advice is kinda like professional wrestling. My point is that mass-mediated financial advice is EXACTLY like professional wrestling. And I…
- September 19, 2014Ep. 275: Joel Mokyr Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Joel Mokyr, an economic historian at Northwestern University. He focuses on technological progress, and how it affects growth. From Mokyr’s perspective, we haven’t seen anything yet. He’s not…
- September 15, 2014Central Banks, What Have they Become? Ben Hunt’s View
A recent piece from Ben Hunt (see my Trend Following Radio Podcasts with Ben Hunt: ep 252, and ep. 447: In every important respect, the Fed and the ECB and their brethren…
- August 28, 2014Ep. 269: Robert Aumann Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
My guest today is Robert Aumann, the fourth Nobel Prize winner to appear on this podcast. Aumann is an Israeli-American mathematician, and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences.…