Ep. 649: Jed Rothstein Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jed Rothstein, the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker who specializes in hard-to-get stories from around the world that help people understand one another better. Whether seeking out heavy metal musicians who become Arab-Spring revolutionaries (PBS’s Before the Spring After the Fall); pioneering doctors (HBO’s Coma and Pandemic); Al Qaeda terrorists (The Oscar-nominated HBO documentary Killing in the Name); defenders of free speech (The 2009 Sundance film Shouting Fire); journalists on the front lines (Independent Lens’ Democracy on Deadline)–Rothstein works with people to help them tell their own stories in their own words. His films and television programs have played in festivals around the world, enjoyed special screenings at the United Nations, and been broadcast on HBO, PBS, National Geographic, Amazon Prime, The Discovery Channel, IFC, Channel 4, the BBC, CNN and elsewhere.

The topic is his documentary The China Hustle.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

China

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Coval.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is Jed Rothstein.
0:35.7	He's the director of a new film, a new documentary film,
0:39.0	The China Hustle. Executive producers include Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner, Alex Gibney. If you don't
0:45.5	recall the name Alex Gibney, Alex was the man behind the Enron documentary, one of the great
0:52.5	films of the last 20 years. Gosh, it might be longer than that. No, it's got great films of the last 20 years. Gosh, it might be longer than
0:56.5	that. No, it's got to be in the last 20 years. I'm not looking it up right now, but the Enron
1:00.3	film was a great film. Alex is involved in that. But today, it's not Enron, but perhaps some might
1:05.1	argue that the China hustle is a kissing cousin of the Enron film. Some might argue that it's right there in the
1:13.8	same headspace, just as bad. Others might argue something entirely different. In a nutshell,
1:21.2	and I'm paraphrasing a little bit, but essentially post the Great Recession, it became very fashionable for U.S. investors to invest in
1:33.2	Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges.
1:38.3	Now, there was a whole process to this, many people involved on both sides from China to U.S. players.
1:45.3	A very interesting story with many perspectives, and I think you will really enjoy checking
1:50.5	this film out.
1:52.1	It might make you angry for different reasons.
1:56.8	There's going to be different perspectives on this.
1:58.6	I felt myself looking at it from multiple angles, not just the obvious angle with the title
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