Richard Duncan is the author of three books on the global economic crisis. His international bestseller book — The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, forecasted the global economic crisis of 2008 with extraordinary accuracy.

Read the full transcript of the interview here: Richard Duncan Podcast Transcript

He began his career as an equities analyst in Hong Kong in 1986. Richard has served as global head of investment strategy at ABN AMRO Asset Management in London, and worked as a financial sector specialist for the World Bank in Washington D.C. He also headed equity research departments for James Capel Securities and Salomon Brothers in Bangkok. Aside from that, he also worked as a consultant for the IMF in Thailand during the Asia Crisis.

He is now the publisher of the video-newsletter Macro Watch, which can be found on his website:

http://www.richardduncaneconomics.com/

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Here are the questions for the podcast:

• What do you do?
• What happened to US and Global equity markets two weeks ago?
• Is this recession or depression?
• What kind of shape this recovery event will form – ‘V’, ‘U’ or something else? Why?
• Do you see this as short term recession or long term recession?
• Dow jumped higher by 1600 points today. Do you think we are in recovery mode?
• What should an investor do now? Will the real estate market crash because of Covid-19?
• Any real estate or finance books you recommend?
• Any website or apps if someone wants to understand more about investment, real estate etc?
• How can my listeners reach out to you?

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