FF 267 - New Zealand Lockdowns and Evolving Economies with Fergus Hodgson

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🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On today’s episode of Finding Freedom Fergus Hodgson joins John to discuss how COVID lockdowns have impacted higher education and how he sees college and business evolving in the future. Fergus is originally from New Zealand, so naturally he spends some time discussing the lockdowns in his native country. Fergus gives the straight truth of the what’s happening inside New Zealand and it’s not pretty. Fergus Hodgson is an independent economic consultant, previously the editor-in-chief of the PanAm Post and the director of fiscal policy studies with the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. He holds a BA in economics from Boston University, a graduate diploma in political science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a certificate in Cuban studies from the University of Miami. Currently, he studies finance at Rice University in Houston, Texas. And is the director of Econ Americas. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Amazon. Fergus has been on Lions of Liberty twice previously. With Marc back in 2016 and again with Brian on Electric Liberty Land in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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