Gillian Tett: Anthro-Vision | SALT Talks
Gillian Tett is an Editor-at-Large for the Financial Times, where she is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US. She has written about the financial instruments that were part of the cause of the financial crisis that started in the fourth quarter of 2007, such as CDOs, credit default swaps, SIVs, conduits, and SPVs. She became renowned for her early warning that a financial crisis was looming.
In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards. Tett’s past roles at the FT have included US managing editor, assistant editor, capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro and background
6:07 - Anthropology intelligence
8:15 - Anthropology in finance
14:16 - Cambridge Analytica
17:55 - Anthropology and the pandemic
22:28 - Checks and balances
25:15 - Donald Trump’s communication style
29:50 - Social media effects
32:48 - Societal divide around mask-wearing
34:32 - Tech disruptions in finance
38:09 - Cryptocurrencies
40:54 - Societal anxieties
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