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About Daniel Peris
Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Hermes in Pittsburgh. Trained as a historian of modern Russia, he is the host of the Keep Calm and Carry On Investing podcast and the author most recently of Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors.Daniel Peris is Senior Vice President at Federated Hermes in Pittsburgh. He can be reached at DanielxPeris@gmail.com or via Twitter @HistoryInvestor. His History and Investing blog and Keep Calm & Carry On Investing podcast are here.
NBN Episodes hosted by Daniel:
June 10, 2024
Broken Bargain
Think that today's debates about the role of the Federal Reserve Bank, financial regulation, "too big to fail", etc. are new? Think again. Who should …
February 12, 2024
Fiscal Therapy
The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting …
January 10, 2024
Economics in Two Lessons
Trying to follow the key macroeconomic debates that are swirling around DC, CNBC, the WSJ and the NYT? If you are but don't want to go back to graduat…
January 2, 2024
A Brief History of Doom
Richard Vague really really cares about private-sector debt. And he thinks you should too. In A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial …
January 1, 2024
The Enlightened Capitalists
Is the University of Chicago-blessed, "greed is good" near-term profits approach to business wearing out its welcome? James O'Toole's The Enlightened…
July 5, 2023
My Russia: War Or Peace?
In his timely My Russia: War or Peace? (RiverRun Press, 2023), Mikhail Shishkin provides a searing account of Russian political culture that explains …
January 11, 2023
Cigarettes and Soviets
Seeing cigarette smoking as a cultural phenomenon of Western modernity is perhaps easier when the test case is outside the US where the narrative is d…
December 16, 2022
When McKinsey Comes to Town
An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting …
November 2, 2022
The Economy of Promises
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power & Credit in America (Princeton UP,…
October 6, 2022
The Price of Time
Edward Chancellor's just published history of interest rates could not be better timed. As the world adjusts to rising rates after decades of falling …
September 21, 2022
Pilgrimage to the Museum
In Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God through Art and Time (Sophia Institute Press, 2022), Stephen Auth takes you on a provocative and col…
June 17, 2022
Soul in the Game
Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life (Harriman House, 2022) is a book of inspiring stories and hard-won lessons on how to live a meaningful …
January 25, 2022
The Revolution That Wasn't
In The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio/Penguin, 2022), WSJ columnist Spencer Jakab weaves tog…
January 10, 2022
The Life Cycle of Russian Things
This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past sev…
December 22, 2021
The Firebird and the Fox
Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge UP, 2019) by Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Univers…
October 22, 2021
The Last Liberal Republican
History is told, it is said, by the victors. And so it is in regard to Richard Nixon. We all know how his presidency ended. What too few of us recall …
October 18, 2021
The Economics of Higher Education
In this episode, Daniel Peris, the host of the “Keep Calm and Carry On Investing” podcast, and David Finegold have a wide-ranging discussion of econom…
October 13, 2021
The Myth of Private Equity
Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathing …
October 12, 2021
Navalny
Everyone has heard of Alexei Navalny, the leader of Russia's opposition to Putin's rule. But what do we really know of him? Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, …
September 3, 2021
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory
Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized th…
August 23, 2021
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiq…
July 13, 2021
Weak Strongman
Putin is not the unconstrained, all-powerful boogeyman he is made out to be in the popular Western media. So says Timothy Frye, Professor of Political…
June 14, 2021
Russia and America
In recent times, US-Russia relations have deteriorated to what both sides acknowledge is an “all time low.” Russian interference in the 2016 US presid…
May 24, 2021
The Spirit of Green
Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming? Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William No…