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.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Daniel:

William Gale, "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (Oxford UP, 2019)

February 12, 2024

Fiscal Therapy

William Gale
Hosted by Daniel Peris

The US government is laboring under an enormous debt burden, one that will impact the living standards of future generations of Americans by limiting …

John Quiggin, "Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly" (Princeton UP, 2019)

January 10, 2024

Economics in Two Lessons

John Quiggin
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

Richard Vague, "A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial Crises" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

January 2, 2024

A Brief History of Doom

Richard Vague
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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 …

James O'Toole, "The Enlightened Capitalists: Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" (HarperBusiness, 2019)

January 1, 2024

The Enlightened Capitalists

James O'Toole
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

Mikhail Shishkin, "My Russia: War Or Peace?" (RiverRun Press, 2023)

July 5, 2023

My Russia: War Or Peace?

Mikhail Shishkin
Hosted by Daniel Peris
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In his timely My Russia: War or Peace? (RiverRun Press, 2023), Mikhail Shishkin provides a searing account of Russian political culture that explains …

Tricia Starks, "Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR" (Cornell UP, 2022)

January 11, 2023

Cigarettes and Soviets

Tricia Starks
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, "When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm" (Doubleday, 2022)

December 16, 2022

When McKinsey Comes to Town

Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Hosted by Daniel Peris

An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting …

Bruce G. Carruthers, "The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America" (Princeton UP, 2022)

November 2, 2022

The Economy of Promises

Bruce G. Carruthers
Hosted by Daniel Peris

A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America, The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power & Credit in America (Princeton UP,…

Edward Chancellor, "The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022)

October 6, 2022

The Price of Time

Edward Chancellor
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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 …

Stephen F. Auth, "Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man's Search for God Through Art and Time" (Sophia Institute Press, 2022)

September 21, 2022

Pilgrimage to the Museum

Stephen F. Auth
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

Vitaliy Katsenelson, "Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life" (Harriman House, 2022)

June 17, 2022

Soul in the Game

Vitaliy Katsenelson
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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 …

Spencer Jakab, "The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors" (Penguin, 2022)

January 25, 2022

The Revolution That Wasn't

Spencer Jakab
Hosted by Daniel Peris

In The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors (Portfolio/Penguin, 2022), WSJ columnist Spencer Jakab weaves tog…

Matthew P. Romaniello, et al., "The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600-Present" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

January 10, 2022

The Life Cycle of Russian Things

Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks
Hosted by Daniel Peris

This collection of articles, edited by Matthew Romaniello, Alison Smith, and Tricia Starks, takes up the history of material culture over the past sev…

Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

December 22, 2021

The Firebird and the Fox

Jeffrey Brooks
Hosted by Daniel Peris

Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks (Cambridge UP, 2019) by Jeffrey Brooks, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins Univers…

John Roy Price, "The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy" (UP of Kansas, 2021)

October 22, 2021

The Last Liberal Republican

John Roy Price
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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 …

The Economics of Higher Education

October 18, 2021

The Economics of Higher Education

David Finegold
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

Jeffrey C. Hooke, "The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments" (Columbia Business School, 2021)

October 13, 2021

The Myth of Private Equity

Jeffrey C. Hooke
Hosted by Daniel Peris

Jeffrey Hooke's The Myth of Private Equity: An Inside Look at Wall Street's Transformative Investments (Columbia Business School, 2021) is a scathing …

Jan Matti Dollbaum et al., "Navalny: Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?" (Oxford UP, 2021)

October 12, 2021

Navalny

Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet and Ben Noble
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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, …

Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley, "Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters" (Routledge, 2021)

September 3, 2021

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory

Jon Lukomnik and James P. Hawley
Hosted by Daniel Peris

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing that Matters (Routledge, 2021) tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized th…

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)

August 23, 2021

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer
Hosted by Daniel Peris

Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiq…

Timothy Frye, "Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia" (Princeton UP, 2021)

July 13, 2021

Weak Strongman

Timothy Frye
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

Andrei P. Tsygankov, "Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry" (Polity, 2019)

June 14, 2021

Russia and America

Andrei P. Tsygankov
Hosted by Daniel Peris

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…

William D. Nordhaus, "The Spirit of Green: The Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World" (Princeton UP, 2021)

May 24, 2021

The Spirit of Green

William D. Nordhaus
Hosted by Daniel Peris

Can classical economics help figure out climate change and support policies that slow global warming? Yale Sterling Professor of Economics William No…

Louis Nelson, "Mosaic: War Monument Mystery" (239 Productions, 2021)

May 14, 2021

Mosaic

Louis Nelson
Hosted by Daniel Peris

The Korean War is now America's seminal war. It was the first war conducted with the new United Nations, the first war fought against the Chinese Comm…