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About the Riverside Conversations...
The Riverside Conversations: a
series of conversations for
television hosted by Jim Rogers.
Each installment will be 50 minutes
long and concentrate, in depth, on
one important issue.
The setting is Jim Rogers' mansion
at Riverside Drive on the Upper West
Side of Manhattan, the house
overlooking the Hudson and a wide
stretch of New Jersey on the river's
west bank.
Three people are having dinner. They
are engrossed in a conversation they
take with them to the salon where
they continue over brandy and an
occasional cigar.
The conversation is about, say, the
implications of an all out American
attack on Iraq, or the shape of 'the
economy'. All three are approaching
the conversation from a global
perspective; all three are able to
connect the political with the
economical, the past with the
future, and today's delusions with
tomorrow's likely realizations.
The host, Jim Rogers, historian,
philosopher and investor, is driving
his two guests towards clear
statements, towards explanations and
predictions that may be complex but
are still down-to-earth, clear cut,
tangible, and even practical. His
intention is to push his two guests
gently but firmly not so much into
high sounding intellectual positions
but into statements that provide
others, the viewers, with insights
and instruments on which to build
their own future behavior.
All of us have to deal with many,
many things. But it is getting
increasingly hard to deal with the
repercussions of what it means to
truly live in a globalized world. We
all get to hear about the crisis in
Argentina, the Enron scandal, the
failure of the ECB to make its mark,
the impending attack on Iraq or the
results of the Johannesburg Summit
on environmental matters. We all
know these things affect us,
somehow. Some of us even realize
that the many connections between
our individual lives and what
happens in the world are much more
direct and concrete than we would
have bargained for. But only a very
few know how to shortcut to the
essence of these issues and define
the alternatives and tools necessary
to be able to make judgements and
decisions on the level of actually
coping with these problems on an
individual level.
To put it differently, more and more
of us have become 'global
consumers'. We either directly or
indirectly (through our pension
funds) invest all over the world, we
support NGO's that have a global
presence, we think about where we
want to live when we're 64, we need
to decide where our company will go,
what our children will study, how to
find co-supporters for causes that
have far outgrown the level of the
nation state, etc., etc. As global
consumers we need to know so many
things in order to be able to make
the decisions necessary for our own
survival.
We do know how to get at the 'facts'
because they are everywhere: on the
internet, in all those magazines and
papers, on television and radio. But
the more facts, the bigger the
confusion, that is how it often
works out for most people. How to
enlighten ourselves? Which filters
to use?
The media are not into connecting
the dots, they are into selling the
dots. The politicians are not into
connecting the dots, they are into
winning votes by manipulating the
dots.
The aim of The Riverside
Conversations is to connect the
dots. It is being produced for those
who are interested in how to deal
with the bigger picture, how to cope
with global developments. It's
produced for students and CEO's, for
members of national parliaments and
people who ponder their retirement
plans, it is for all who realize
they live in a new, truly global
world.
To be clear, the series is not going
to tell anyone to invest in company
X, or to buy a house at the Bay of
Y. The conversations are about what
bigger issues mean and will mean,
about identifying and even
predicting trends, about the
correlation between politics,
culture, demographics and economics.
They take up a current issue in
order to highlight the future in
such a way that future action may be
built on it. Because that is what we
need.
The guest are selected anew for each
episode. Jim Roger's dinner guests
in the first episode (recorded in
New York on February 4, 2003 and
broadcast five days later) are the
Swiss investor Marc Faber, who
operates from out of Hong Kong but
flew in for the occasion, and the
American Pulitzer Prize winner and
oil expert Daniel Yergin, who's
office, CERA, is in Boston.
The series is based on a
collaboration between Jim Rogers,
the host, and George Brugmans, the
producer.
While the action takes place in Mr.
Rogers' mansion in New York, "The
Riverside Conversations" are
produced in The Netherlands where
Mr. Brugmans is a commissioning
editor with VPRO, a Dutch national
public broadcaster.
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