Richard Duncan

Richard Duncan is the author of three books on the global economic crisis.  The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures (2003) explained why a worldwide economic calamity was inevitable given the flaws in the post-Bretton Woods international monetary system.  It was an international bestseller.  The Corruption of Capitalism (2009) described the long series of US policy mistakes responsible for the crisis.  It also outlined the policies necessary to permanently resolve it.  His latest book, published in 2012, focuses specifically on the role that credit creation has played in this disaster.  It's entitled The New Depression: The Breakdown Of The Paper Money Economy.Since beginning 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, worked as a financial sector specialist for the World Bank in Washington D.C., and headed equity research departments for James Capel Securities and Salomon Brothers in Bangkok.  He also worked as a consultant for the IMF in Thailand during the Asia Crisis.  He is now chief economist at Blackhorse Asset Management in Singapore.Richard has appeared frequently on CNBC, CNN, BBC and Bloomberg Television, as well as on BBC World Service Radio.  He has published articles in The Financial Times, The Far East Economic Review, FinanceAsia and CFO Asia.  He is also a well-known speaker whose audiences have included The World Economic Forum's East Asia Economic Summit in Singapore, EuroFinance Conferences in Miami and Copenhagen, The Chief Financial Officers' Roundtable in Shanghai, and the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul.Richard studied literature an economics at Vanderbilt University (1983) and international finance at Babson College (1986); and, between the two, spent a year traveling around the world as a backpacker.