Mitch Feierstein
Mitchell B. Feierstein is a British-American investor, banker and writer. He has worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and works as a columnist for The Independent and the Huffington Post. Feierstein appears regularly as a financial commentator on SKY, BBC and RT’s Keiser Report. In 2012 he published his first book, Planet Ponzi, which gives his perspective of the global credit crisis.
Feierstein stood as a Brexit Party candidate in the 2019 UK General Election for the Reading East constituency. They came 5th with 1.5% of the vote.[citation needed]
Early life and education[]
Feierstein was born in New York City, and educated at Hamden Hall Country Day School in Hamden, Connecticut.[1] Feierstein studied economics at Vassar College and was on the Vassar College President's International Advisory Committee 2009 until it was disbanded in 2018.[2] Feierstein served on the Council from Jan 9, 2009 to June 30, 2018.[3]
Career[]
Feierstein worked for several broker dealers and banks on Wall Street in the 1980s and was a pioneer in liquidity of interest rate derivative products on Wall Street in the 1990s. He worked as Senior Portfolio Manager of the , part of one of the largest hedge-fund groups operating in Europe. He acts as a consultant for a number of governments in their disaster and contingency planning and has testified before the UK Parliament on regulation of carbon credits. He is CEO of the Glacier Environmental Fund.[4] He also part-owns a vineyard in Tuscany, Italy.[5] He lives in London and New York.
Planet Ponzi[]
This book suggests that governments, having borrowed to bail out private companies, are now issuing worthless bonds to finance their borrowing.[6][7][8][9]
References[]
- ^ "Mitch Feierstein 1977 reaches out across the pond!". Hamden Hall Country Day School. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ email from VP of Alumnae/i Affairs to this editor "Development Letter sent to all PIAC members on November 10, 2017, disbanding the President's Advisory Council as of June 30, 2018.[better source needed]
- ^ "Mixed Media". Vassar. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
- ^ "Chancellor builds his policies on a Ponzi homes plan". Independent. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ Anderson, Bruce (22 June 2013). "When an economist turns into a winemaker". The Spectator. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ Berger, Hugo. "Planet Ponzi: Gloomy economic predictions". The National. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ Williamson, Christine (March 19, 2012). "Hedge fund manager's website Planet Ponzi offers insight on economy". Pensions & Investments. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- ^ "Media Spotlight". Mortgage Strategy: 23. August 2012.
- ^ Julian Knight (19 February 2012). "Julian Knight: We can't afford to rob the future to feed the present". The Independent. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
- Living people
- HuffPost writers and columnists
- Vassar College alumni
- Hamden Hall Country Day School alumni
- American chief executives
- Brexit Party parliamentary candidates