Lessons for the 2020s - With Historian Niall Ferguson

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🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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The first of our two-part conversation with Naill Ferguson is on applied history’s lessons of the 1920s and the 1970s...for the 2020s. Niall is a historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and he previously taught at Harvard, NYU and Oxford. He’s the managing director of Greenmantle, a macroeconomic and geopolitical advisory firm. Niall is also the author of 17 books including “The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook” and “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe”.

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0:00.0	the 19 pandemic was worse in terms of public health but in terms of economic impact
0:07.1	2021 stands out because the impact on public debt, the impact on the fed balance sheet, the impact on all kinds of aspects of economic life
0:17.1	looks more like the impact had a pandemic right into non-transitory
0:38.0	inflation, combined with geopolitical power vacuums around the world challenging the influence of the West.
0:45.0	Sound familiar?
0:46.4	Neil Ferguson thinks so.
0:48.4	Does the U.S. today have a lot in common with the 1920s and more specifically with Britain a twilight superpower
0:54.9	between the two world wars. Neil is also keeping his applied historian's eye on
1:00.2	the 1970s, the Carter years.
1:03.0	What can we learn from the Carter presidency about the Biden presidency?
1:07.0	This is the first episode of our Call Me Back series.
1:11.0	We hope you'll join the new set of conversations. Speaking of conversations, we are dividing this conversation with
1:17.4	Neil into two parts, which we didn't plan for when we first had down with Neil, so apologize in advance for the abrupt
1:24.4	ending at the end of today's conversation. The first part we are dropping now and
1:28.7	the second part we will drop next week. Today's is a historical look back to understand the period we're in
1:35.0	now. Part two will be focused on the crack-up going on in higher education.
1:39.4	It's a topic that Neil has thought a lot about, that he's actually lived, and that he's actually
1:45.0	doing something about with the new university he's starting.
1:48.8	We didn't want to give Short Shrift to either topic, so we divided them into two parts. This is call me back.
1:55.0	And I'm pleased to welcome Historian, best-selling author, Neil Ferguson, to the podcast.
2:04.0	Welcome to the new podcast.
2:06.1	It's great to be on the new podcast, same as the old podcast.
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