Walter Hutchens’ Blog

My second appearance on Dialogue, a show on China’s national English language television channel (CCTV-9), came off pretty much as expected.

The other discussant was Prof. Wang Changyun, a finance professor from People’s University.

The show’s host Tian Wei did her best to provoke Prof. Wang and I into a lively discussion about the current turbulence in China’s stock markets. Prof. Wang and I, however, are more academic analysts than pundits, so I’m not sure she got what she wanted.

I think I managed not to say anything too stupid (always my first fear) and made a few points I wanted to make. My expertise, such as it is, concerns market regulation more than trading, so I really wasn’t the perfect guest to talk about “stock market fever.”

My main impression about television is that the discussion is always over before it’s really started. The first time I was on Dialogue it was pre-recorded and edited down, but this time it was broadcast live so the available time was even more truncated.

Later I’ll get a DVD with the segment on it and may upload it here (and the station may put the show on the Internet as they did last time), but here are a few low res screen captures my wife made when the show was rebroadcast later on the same night after it first aired.