Interviews
Fortune.com interviews Ian Bremmer
Fortune editor at large, Patricia Sellers, discusses dangers and opportunities around the world with The Fat Tail author Ian Bremmer. (more)
The McKinsey Quarterly interviews Ian Bremmer
In this interview, Ian Bremmer discusses The Fat Tail and the value of developing business strategies that help companies and investors limit their risk exposure to political shocks. (more)
WNYC interviews Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer talks about political risks and global investing on the Brian Lehrer show. (more)
Forbes interviews Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer discusses The Fat Tail and political risks from Washington on the Forbes Video Network. (more)
CNBC Europe interviews Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer discusses the G20 meeting, and says "politics are trumping the global economic crisis." (more)
Forbes interviews Ian Bremmer
Michael Mailello of Forbes interviews Ian Bremmer about The Fat Tail and why political risk matters to businesses. "If you want to get the markets right, right now," Bremmer says, "you need to know about Congress, about Treasury, about Obama, about how they're interacting with other global leaders and states around the world." (more)
Q+A with Ian Bremmer on WashingtonPost.com
Ian Bremmer hosts and online Q+A about how politics is increasingly driving the world economy and having direct implications for investors and multinational corporations. (more)
Six Questions for Ian Bremmer, Author of Fat Tail
Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine asks Ian Bremmer six questions about current fat tail risks. "Just in time for the global financial crisis," Horton says, "Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer has a new book... and it deals with one of the most complicated aspects of risk analysis: the occurrence of once-in-a-century but highly transformative events which are routinely disregarded by analysts--to their peril." (more)
Portfolio Interviews Ian Bremmer
Felix Salmon of Portfolio interviews Ian Bremmer about sovereign defaults. "I decided to ask Ian about sovereign defaults," Felix says. "He gave a broad answer to begin with, but then I pushed him on specifics, and he came up with some very interesting analysis." (more)
CNBC interviews Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer discusses the current challenges facing the Obama administration on "Street Signs with Erin Burnett." (more)
Forbes interviews Preston Keat
Preston Keat discusses the top political risks for 2009 on Forbes.com video network. (more)
NPR's Planet Money interviews Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer discusses how the outrage over AIG bonuses is distracting the US leadership from bigger issues. (more)
World Focus interviews Ian Bremmer
Martin Savidge of World Focus interviews Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of The Fat Tail, to discuss how rising social unrest will affect China’s pursuance of free market policies, how politics drive financial markets, and if there is a political solution to the financial crisis. (more)
Newsweek interviews Ian Bremmer
Newsweek says that in The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, "[Ian] Bremmer connects the dots between political disaster and economic turmoil and posits new ways to analyze and prepare for doomsday scenarios." Bremmer then discusses the implications of economic turmoil for political stability--particularly in Russia and China. (more)
Business News Network interviews Ian Bremmer
On BNN's SqueezePlay, Amanda Lang interviews Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, about how political stability affects the global investment environment. Bremmer says politics are driving almost everything in the markets right now. (more)
KUOW.org interviews Ian Bremmer
How do businesses survive in this volatile market? How much do political changes affect the world economy? Is there a way for investors to assess political risks? Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, joins KUOW to discuss these questions and how his new book, The Fat Tail, helps assess political risks in a global market. (more)
Vinny Catalano interviews Ian Bremmer
In this podcast on "Beyond the Sound Bite," Bremmer explores key themes from The Fat Tail--notably the investment importance of political risk management, the power shift from capitals of finance to capitals of politics, and the factors involved in quantifying political risk. (more)