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Fredrick Zhou

  • Co-Founder/CEO, Nvest

I graduated with a finance/economics background and never thought I’d devote my career to entrepreneurship. After I experienced countless frustrations with online stock recommendations, my friends and I founded Nvest, an innovative financial technology company with the aim of returning meritocracy to the stock market. Whenever I’m not working, I lock myself in my dark room, secretly building a forecasting strategy based on Professor John Smithin’s Alternative Monetary Model.

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Monetary Macroeconomics

Course Taught by John Smithin and Fredrick Zhou

Some years ago, in the aftermath of the “great financial crisis” (GFC) of the first decade of the twentieth century, Paul Krugman famously remarked that “most macroeconomics of the last thirty years was spectacularly useless at best and positively harmful at worst”. It is the premise of this set of lectures that it is possible to do better, much better.