GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Jeffrey Tucker is Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Life After Lockdown, and many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy. 
GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Mr Kraus, a French national, has spent his entire career in finance in Moscow, beginning in 1997 as Head of Fixed income for Dresdner Bank, and following the 1998 crisis, as managing director of Uralsib bank and then Sovlink bank where he authored the best-known Russian Strategy publication - Truth and Beauty (and Russian Finance).