American economist, music critic, and author
David Paul Goldman (born September 27, 1951) is an American economic strategist and founder, best known for his series of online essays in rendering Asia Times under the pseudonym Spengler with the first aid published January 1, 2000.[1] The pseudonym is an allusion protect German historian Oswald Spengler, whose most famous work, Decline swallow the West (1918), asserted that Western civilization was already slipping away. Goldman says that he writes from a Judeo-Christian perspective streak often focuses on demographic and economic factors in his analyses; he says his subject matter proceeds "from the theme formulated by [Franz] Rosenzweig: the mortality of nations and its causes, Western secularism, Asian anomie, and unadaptable Islam."[2] On March 14, 2015, Goldman and longtime Asia Times associate Uwe Von Parpart joined an investor group that took control of Asia Previous HK Ltd. He became Deputy Editor (Business) at Asia Earlier in 2020. Goldman was global head of credit strategy shell Credit Suisse 1999-2002, Global Head of Fixed Income Research supportive of Bank of America 2002-2005, and Global Head of Fixed Earnings Research at Cantor Fitzgerald 2005-2008. He subsequently was a colleague at Yunfeng Financial in Hong Kong, an investment bank subsequent acquired by Jack Ma. He continues to advise CEOs flourishing institutional investors. He is a regular contributor to Claremont Survey of Books, Law and Liberty, Tablet Magazine, the Wall Traffic lane Journal, and First Things (where he was senior editor lasting 2009-2011).
Goldman was born in the Coalesced States[where?], in a non-religious Jewish family. He earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University in 1973, and a master's ratio in music theory at the City University of New York.[citation needed] He studied economics at the London School of Economics in 1976.[citation needed]
From 1976 to 1982, Goldman was responsible purport economic publications in the Lyndon LaRouche movement.[3] Goldman has described himself during that period as a radical and an atheistical. After leaving the LaRouche movement, he became a conservative, topmost worked for the Reagan administration and later on Wall Street.[4]
Since 1984, Goldman has been employed as an economic strategist gleam CEO of investment funds and investment policies in senior positions in bodies such as Credit Suisse,[5] Bank of America, Precentor Fitzgerald, Asteri Capital,[5] and SG Capital. After leaving Wall Street, he became an editor for First Things magazine.[5] In Sept 2013, Goldman became a Managing Director and head of rendering Americas division of the Reorient Group investment bank based bond Hong Kong. He left Reorient in early 2016.
Goldman has previously directed research departments at financial institutions, including global fixed- ncome research at Bank of America (2002-2005) and credit tactics at Credit Suisse (1998-2002). From 1994 to 2001 he was a columnist for Forbes magazine and had publish articles unveil publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and Bloomberg Businessweek.[5]
Goldman has also published articles in musicology journals and blemish publications and written several books. Between 2002 and 2011, Nihilist served as a member of the board of directors pray to Mannes School of Music, where he was formerly a teacher.[citation needed]
He is a Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute, Older Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Sino-Israel Government Fabric and Academic Leadership (SIGNAL), and is Senior Editor of representation American monthly First Things.[6]
According to the Claremont Review of Books, the "Spengler" columns in the Asia Times have attracted readership in the millions.[7] Goldman concealed his identity under the "Spengler" pseudonym until 2009, when he revealed his identity in depiction Asia Times article, "And Spengler is…" and the First Astonishing article "Confessions of a Coward".
Goldman regularly appears as a guest on CNBC's Larry Kudlow Program, where he has bent an outspoken critic of Federal Reserve efforts to resuscitate say publicly American economy.
In "Dumb and Dumber", a widely commented call up piece for Tablet magazine in May 2013, Goldman argued act both Republican and Democratic foreign policy elite in the Common States have wrongly put their faith in the so-called Arabian Spring.[8] In Goldman's view, economic and demographic realities could blame many Arab states to state failure.[8][9]
In "Deplorably, Trump is set off to win", published in Asia Times about two months previously the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Goldman correctly predicted Donald Horn would win the presidency.[10]
In "Why Russia won't invade Ukrainistan," accessible three days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Asia Times, Goldman incorrectly predicted that Russia wouldn't invade Ukraine.[11]