WealthTrack: Niall Ferguson – Implications of America’s exploding debt
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December 14th, 2009 by Prieur du Plessis, Investment Postcards from Cape Town
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This week Consuelo Mack is joined on WealthTrack by historian Niall Ferguson. He is also the author of several excellent best sellers, including his most recent “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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Ferguson tells Consuelo what the seismic global economic and market shifts of recent years mean for our future, particularly the longer-term implications of America’s exploding debt. He is erudite, articulate, energetic, charming and professionally prolific, making for a must-view interview.
Note: The transcript of this interview is not available yet, but will be posted here as soon as it arrives.
Source: Wealthtrack, December 11, 2009.
Dr. Prieur du Plessis is an investment professional with 26 years' experience in investment research and portfolio management. More than 1,200 of his articles on investment-related topics have been published in various regular newspaper, journal and Internet columns, including his blog, Investment Postcards from Cape Town. He has also published a book, Financial Basics: Investment. Prieur is Chairman and principal shareholder of South African-based Plexus Asset Management, which he founded in 1995. The group conducts investment management, investment consulting, private equity and real estate activities in South Africa and a number of foreign countries. He also serves as Honorary Consul of Slovenia for South Africa, actively developing economic, cultural and scientific relations between Slovenia and South Africa. Prieur is 54 years old and live with his wife, television producer and presenter Isabel Verwey, and two children in Cape Town, South Africa. His leisure activities include long-distance running, traveling, reading, motor-cycling and scripophily. Read more from the author/contributor here.
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