“The Wolf Den” hosted by Dan David

Peter Humphrey, The Man Who Loved China

We jump right into the horrifying details of the arrest imprisonment, interrogation, and torture of Peter Humphrey.   Sit back have a stiff drink and cancel that trip to the CCP.

Peter spent 46 years in business, education, media, investigations, and philanthropy in China. His story is something everyone needs to hear not because of the tragedy of it, Peter does not want you to feel sorry for him. It should be a cautionary tale. His story should be an alarm for anyone who thinks Western values mean anything to the CCP.  

He currently wears many hats. He’s a political analyst, journalist, commentator, documentary adviser, and expert witness focusing on business in China. Peter has worked with Harvard University, King's College London, and RUSI. He has spoken at many universities and think tanks. He is a contributor to The Diplomat, Sunday Times, and Financial Times, and has advised many news outlets on China stories and documentaries.

Peter is a strident advocate campaigning against the PRC practice of forced televised confessions and donates his time to mentoring families of arbitrarily imprisoned foreigners in China.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-w-humphrey-

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/asia/peter-humphrey-china-prisoners-intl-hnk/index.html

Recent articles:

Forced prison labor has foreign prisoners in China packing Christmas cards for Tesco and oats for Quakers. Exclusive. (Sunday Times, 22 & 29 Dec 2019, 19 Jan 2020)

My Life Inside a Chinese Prison, by Peter Humphrey (Financial Times, 16 Feb 2018)

Peter Humphrey, The Man Who Loved China

The Pack and Peter go through his history through his imprisonment in a Chinese gulag for the crime of investigating the wrong person.   Sit back have a stiff drink and cancel that trip to the CCP.

Peter spent 46 years in business, education, media, investigations, and philanthropy in China. His story is something everyone needs to hear not because of the tragedy of it, Peter does not want you to feel sorry for him. It should be a cautionary tale. His story should be an alarm for anyone who thinks Western values mean anything to the CCP.  

He currently wears many hats. He’s a political analyst, journalist, commentator, documentary adviser, and expert witness focusing on business in China. Peter has worked with Harvard University, King's College London, and RUSI. He has spoken at many universities and think tanks. He is a contributor to The Diplomat, Sunday Times, and Financial Times, and has advised many news outlets on China stories and documentaries.

Peter is a strident advocate campaigning against the PRC practice of forced televised confessions and donates his time to mentoring families of arbitrarily imprisoned foreigners in China.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-w-humphrey-

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/asia/peter-humphrey-china-prisoners-intl-hnk/index.html

Recent articles:

Forced prison labor has foreign prisoners in China packing Christmas cards for Tesco and oats for Quakers. Exclusive. (Sunday Times, 22 & 29 Dec 2019, 19 Jan 2020)

My Life Inside a Chinese Prison, by Peter Humphrey (Financial Times, 16 Feb 2018)

Recent Lectures and Speeches:

This week The Pack is thankful for American Hero Matt Eversmann (@EversmannMatt on Twitter). The former Army Ranger was featured in several books and films depicting his time in the Military and was the lead protagonist portrayed by Josh Hartnett in the hit "Black Hawk Down".  Matt now writes with James Patterson and helps veterans who are struggling to transition to civilian life.  

Eversmann Advisory

is a veteran-owned and operated organization with a diverse range of strategic partners who develop employment initiatives and strategically embed talent. We train exceptionally talented men and women to be more competitive in the market.

Matt is also the co-author of two books with James Patterson yes that James Patterson

E.R. Nurses: True Stories from America's Greatest Unsung Heroes

They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories.  The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes.

Walk-in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America's Bravest Warriors

These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades in arms. Here, in the voices of the men and women who’ve fought overseas from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is a rare eye-opening look into what wearing the uniform, fighting in combat, losing friends, and coming home is really like

Matt is featured in the 2008 PBS documentary “Send Me”

"Send Me" follows as he returns to combat with the U.S. military in the fight against ISIS and the Taliban. The film provides an insider's look into the lives of active-duty U.S. military personnel stationed in far-flung outposts overseas.

But what Former first Sergeant Eversmann is known for and detailed in two books and a movie you may have heard of

The Battle of Mogadishu: First-Hand Accounts from the Men of Task Force Ranger with Dan Shilling

Day of the Rangers: The Battle of Mogadishu 25 Years On

by Leigh Neville,

The Movie You May have heard of – Black Hawk Down

 The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-eversmann-a7647b4/

https://eversmannadvisory.com/

This week The Pack is joined by returning champion Sam Reynolds (On Twitter @thesamreynolds & @blockworks), a journalist with Blockworks based in Taipei. With Blockworks he covers digital assets and institutional investors in the world’s most exciting economies. 

Prior to Blockworks, he was an editor with Taipei-based Forkast News, where he covered blockchain throughout Asia. Sam also contributes to Wccftech, one of the largest technology news websites in the world. 

Sam is The Pack's go-to guy when it comes to questions on Crypto and the Microsemi industry. We dig into how microchips are being made, who the major players are, what is causing the bottleneck, what are the threats and when we will see a change.   We also touch on crypto and how microchip manufacturers and miners have a frenemies-type relationship.  It all gets wrapped up with some basic rationale of why the supply chain isn't helping anyone.   

https://blockworks.co/ - Understand the crypto markets in just 5 minutes.

On this week’s episode, The Pack gets a little weird for Halloween. We are joined by former UK Ministry of Defense Undersecretary in Charge of UFOs, Nick Pope (@nickpopemod on Twitter).

Nick Pope ran the British Government’s UFO Project from 1991 to 1994. Among his other duties, he led research on and investigations of UFOs, alien abductions, crop circles, and other strange phenomena.

The media called him “The Real Fox Mulder”. His government background and his level-headed views have made him the media, film, and TV industry’s go-to guy when it comes to UFOs, the unexplained, and alien conspiracy theories.

Nick Pope has consulted on and helped to promote a number of alien-themed movies, TV shows, and video games. He has hosted, consulted on, and contributed to numerous TV shows, has written six best-selling books, and lectures all around the world.

The Pack asks Nick one of the most important questions for mankind: “Are we alone?”

We dig into what Nick is allowed to discuss, hear which counties are helping us in the search for alien life, and learn what would be the worst-case scenario should aliens exist... or visit.

From crop circles to government admissions, we cover it all. 

Pour yourself a tall brimming glass of Romulan Brandy, sit back, and enjoy.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickpopeofficial/

http://nickpope.net/wpte19/

https://www.amazon.com/Encounter-Rendlesham-Forest-Best-Documented-Incident/dp/1250038103

On this week’s episode, The Pack is joined by a former punk-rocker and current Senior Contributing Writer for Institutional Investor magazine. Richard Teitelbaum (@rteitelbaum100 on Twitter) is a journalist and author specializing in the financial markets.

Richard is the author of The Most Dangerous Trade: How Short Sellers Uncover Fraud, Keep Markets Honest, and Make and Lose Billions (John Wiley, 2015), about the life and lore of the short selling community, a must-read for any who follow The Dark Side.

Currently he is writing in-depth profiles and fascinating investigative stories for Institutional Investor. Previously, he oversaw corporate finance coverage as News Editor at The Wall Street Journal. At Bloomberg News Richard covered hedge funds, investment banks, and the financial crisis. His investigative reports examined the TARP bailout, the disclosure of nonpublic information by the U.S. Treasury Department to market participants, and the New York Federal Reserve Bank's role in the AIG takeover.

On this podcast, we talk about Richard’s book, the obvious mental issues you need to have to be an activist short seller, and some potential topics for a new book for Richard that range from the history of short selling to a biography of AOC.

The Packs also uncovers some of Richard’s investigative techniques, and hears who were the most memorable interviews he’s done, and others that he would like to forget. 

Sit back, have a drink, and enjoy..

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-teitelbaum-17b27517/

https://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous-Trade-Billions-Bloomberg/dp/1118505212

On this week’s episode, The Pack is joined by Todd Cipperman (@Cipperman on Twitter). Todd is the founding principal of Cipperman Compliance Services (CCS) and author of the book, The Compliance Advantage: Ten Must-Know Trends to Protect Your Investment Firm.

We dig into the exciting world of compliance and discuss how many executives try to find that grey area between what is legal and what will put them in the crosshairs of the SEC. We talk about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, and about insider trading cases involving Mark Cuban, Martha Stewart, Kelly Loeffler, and Diane Feinstein. Who should go to jail and what is legal?

Todd has over 25 years of experience in the investment management and financial services industries. He has represented a wide range of investment management clients, always with a focus on distribution issues facing investment managers and broker-dealers. He previously served as general counsel of SEI Investments, a public mutual fund and financial technology firm, including its $65 billion proprietary mutual fund family. He has also served as general counsel of one of the largest international equity managers. Prior to that, Todd spent several years in private practice on Wall Street, representing both buy- and sell-side clients in investment management and capital markets transactions.

Sit back, have a drink, and enjoy.

Links

https://twitter.com/CippermanCS

https://www.cipperman.com/todd-cipperman/

The Compliance Advantage: Ten Must-Know Trends to Protect Your Investment Firm

Available on Amazon

This week The Pack is joined by Aaron Task (@aarontask on Twitter). Aaron is a podcaster and journalist based in New York. He has written articles for Fortune Magazine, Business Insider, Muck Rack, Investment U, and others. He is currently the host of Alpha Trader Podcast for Seeking Alpha.  

Aaron was the digital editor at Fortune Magazine and the host of Fortune’s first podcast, Fortune Unfiltered. Prior to that Aaron was Editor-in-Chief at Yahoo Finance and host of the “Dailey Ticker” from 2008 until 2015. 

He also was Executive Editor at the Street.com in the early days from 1998 to 2007. Aaron was often a substitute host for Jim Cramer’s Real Money Radio and The John Batchelor Show on ABC Radio. He was also editor of the book Bailout Nation, by Barry Ritholtz. 

Arron and The Pack swap stores from the 2008 recession forward. We cover some of his interviews that include the former President of South Korea, three US Presidents, and rock-and-roll legends Gene Simmons and Dee Snider. In this journey with Aaron we cover a multitude of topics, including how unfunny SNL’s Pete Davidson is and the punch-ability of his face.  Sit back, have a laugh, and enjoy.

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/alpha-trader/id1481726535

Social Networks:

aarontask.net 

https://twitter.com/aarontask

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarontask/

https://www.facebook.com/aarontask

Publications and Interviews

Alison Task books: https://allisontask.com/books/

Al Gore interview: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/daily-ticker-al-gore-154841205.html

Bailout Nation: https://www.amazon.com/Bailout-Nation-New-Post-Crisis-Update/dp/0470596325

*** One Note in our recording It was Ann Coulter trolling George Soros NOT Laura Ingraham 

This week the Pack goes outside the world of finance. We are joined by constitutional scholar and Emeritus Professor of Law at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz (@alandersh on Twitter). Alan speaks freely and comfortably about a little bit of everything, his past, his beliefs, current events, past clients, the scourge of woke-ism and cancel-culture, the rough texture and dissonant tone of our times.

Alan Dershowitz has long been celebrated for his work in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. The youngest full professor ever at Harvard Law School, he taught from 1964 through 2013, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst. Throughout his long career, he has written more than two-score books, at least one every year. His latest is coming soon, The Case For Color Blind Equality In The Age Of Identity Politics.

Dershowitz has always believed in maintaining his sharpness in the courtroom as well as classroom, and has always undertaken complex, high-profile, and often unpopular cases, causes, and clients. He has represented a long list of luminaries on both sides of popular sentiment, including Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, Leona Helmsley, Julian Assange, Jim Bakker, O.J. Simpson, Jeffery Epstein, and Harvey Weinstein. 

In 2018 he agreed to represent President Donald Trump, Dershowitz winning his latest landmark case. This and many of his recent pronouncements rubbed wrong the American Left, which had always been his fan-base, neighbors in New York, and social peers. What so many of them misunderstood, and what Alan explains so well in this wide-ranging conversation, is that he took and won the case in defense of the US Constitution, the protections and rights provided by which he sees as increasingly under dire threat from that same Left that once so warmly embraced and now so churlishly scorns him.

So often the great among us are left to walk alone... join the Pack as we keep this brilliant mind and brave man company for a while  in comfortable conversation.

This week on the podcast the pack visits with Gordon G. Chang.  We cover just about every area that China is eating our lunch in from having all our DNA, the future and some say the inevitable fall of Taiwan to the duplicity of US universities and corporations.  Sit back have a hot tea and brush up on your Mandarin.  

Gordon is an attorney, the author of several books on China, a columnist, and public intellectual.  He lived for several decades in China and greater Asia, working for major US law firms Baker & Mackenzie and Paul, Weiss. Gordon has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the CIA, the State Department, and the Pentagon, and has appeared before the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs. He is a former contributor at The Daily Beast. His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, National Review, and Barron’s among others He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, Bloomberg Television, and others, as well on as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Gordon has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities.

Show Links

http://www.gordonchang.com/index.html

https://twitter.com/GordonGChang