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Hidden Forces — 503 episodes

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1

How China Is Winning the Iran War | Jon Alterman

2

US Grand Strategy & the Revenge of Geopolitics | Edward Luce

3

Why America Cannot Afford to Lose Another War | Marvin Barth

4

Who Wins and Who Loses in the AI Economy | John Burn-Murdoch

5

The Last Ship Out of Hormuz: Why the REAL Supply Shock Is About to Hit | Rory Johnston

6

Here's Why Trump is in No Rush to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz | John Konrad

7

The God Machine: Demis Hassabis and the Quest for Superintelligence | Sebastian Mallaby

8

Why There Are No Good Options Left in the US War Against Iran | Gregg Carlstrom

9

The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control | Jacob Siegel

10

America's Gamble: Regime Change, Retreat, or State Collapse in Iran | Hamidreza Azizi

11

What History's Greatest Currencies Tell Us About the Future of the Dollar | Barry Eichengreen

12

When Empires Stop Building: The Iran War and the End of American Soft Power | Bruno Maçães

13

The Iran War and the Limits of American Power | Joshua Landis

14

The Coming Storm: Why 2026 Looks a Lot Like 1914 | Odd Arne Westad

15

The Case for a Historic Reallocation to Emerging Markets | Sony Kapoor

16

How Big Tech Weaponized the Internet and How to Fix It | Tim Wu

17

How to Build the Perfect Portfolio | Cullen Roche

18

The Last Bubble? Finding Value in a World on Fire | Jeremy Grantham & Edward Chancellor

19

Why Europe Must Prepare to Go It Alone | Carlo Masala

20

Iran's Counterrevolution & the Future of the Greater Middle East | Kamran Bokhari

21

The Epstein Files Are Worse Than You Think | Patrick Boyle

22

The Mattering Instinct: Our Desperate Need to Find Meaning | Rebecca Goldstein

23

Trump's New Strategy for Latin America: Venezuela, Cuba, & the 'Donroe Doctrine' | Brian Winter

24

Late-Cycle Investment Theory: Foundations for the Coming Decade | Nicolas Colin

25

Trump's National Security Strategy: A Plan to Contain China or Carve Up the World? | Jamie Metzl

26

AI Bubble, Inflation, and the Limits of Monetary Policy | Jason Furman

27

Diagnosing the Metacrisis: Reality & Meaning in Modern Life | Iain McGilchrist

28

China Shock 2.0: State Capitalism at the Frontier | Dinny McMahon

29

How to Navigate the New Investment Paradigm | Lawrence McDonald

30

Investment Implications of the AI CapEx Boom | Chase Taylor

31

Investing on the Front Lines of the AI Arms Race | Nathan Benaich

32

A Practical History of Financial Markets | Russell Napier

33

What Happens When Social Trust Collapses? | Peter Atwater

34

Trump's Plan to Remake the Middle East | Kamran Bokhari

35

The "Boomer Blues" and a Return to Faith | Roger Mitchell

36

China's Quest to Engineer the Future | Dan Wang

37

The End of Neoliberalism and the Coming Storm | Viktor Shvets

38

Why America Needs a New China Strategy | Kurt Campbell & Rush Doshi

39

Who Profits in a Post-American World? | Adam Posen

40

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity | Paul Kingsnorth

41

How the Internet Went From Counterculture to Technofeudalism | Douglas Rushkoff

42

How Stablecoins Will Transform Banking | Charles Calomiris

43

Thematic Investing in an Age of Global Entropy | Marvin Barth

44

The Great Rebalancing: Why Debt, Demographics, and Politics Will Crush Forward Returns | Sony Kapoor

45

America Under Occupation: Truth, Power, & Imperial Decline | Jonathan Kirshner

46

God Mode: The Technological Battle for Global Domination | Bruno Maçães

47

Failed State: Inside Britain's Governance Crisis | Sam Freedman

48

Investing in a World of Permanent Stimulus | Vincent Deluard

49

The Final Phase of the Debt Supercycle | Edward Chancellor

50

Stablecoins are Fueling a New Era of Dollar Dominance | Vance Spencer & Michael Anderson

51

Why Japan's Elections Could Blow Up Global Bond Markets | Weston Nakamura

52

Capital Flight, Trade Policy, and the Fate of the Dollar | Joseph Wang

53

Investing in the Chaos: Macro Signals in a Bot-Filled World | Le Shrub

54

Trump Doctrine: A New Era of Gunboat Diplomacy | Stephen Walt

55

Tehran to Taipei: the Risks of Strategic Overreach | Dmitri Alperovitch

56

Israel-Iran War: Economic and Strategic Consequences | Kamran Bokhari

57

The Party Comes First: Power & Politics in Xi's China | Joseph Torigian

58

Trump vs. Musk: One Big Beautiful Blowup | Lawrence Fossi

59

The Case for a New U.S. Industrial Policy | Ian Fletcher

60

In The Future China Will Be Dominant & the US Irrelevant | Kyle Chan

61

The Path Through Financial Repression | Charles Calomiris

62

Empire of AI: Inside OpenAI's Race to Conquer the Future | Karen Hao

63

Narrative Collapse & the Search for New Theories | Pippa Malmgren

64

Dangerous Dependency: Apple & the Rise of China | Patrick McGee

65

Wealth Preservation During a Fourth Turning | Russell Napier

66

How To Monetize Government Policy | Mark Spindel

67

Trump's First 100 Days and What Comes After | Neil Howe

68

Will the U.S. Dollar Survive the Breakdown of the International System? | Paul Blustein

69

The Economic Fallout from Trump's China Tariffs | Shehzad Qazi

70

Capital Wars and the Death of Fiscal Illusions | Paulo Macro & Le Shrub

71

The Hundred Year Pivot | A New Podcast Series by Demetri Kofinas and Grant Williams

72

Are We About to Enter the First White-Collar Recession? | James van Geelen

73

Why Fiscal Policy Is What Really Matters For Investors | Kevin Muir

74

Navigating the Twin Crises of the 2020s | George Friedman

75

Is the US at Risk of Losing the Long-Game to China? | Rush Doshi

76

Living In Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age | Rod Dreher

77

Ending the Ukraine War: A Reset in U.S.-Russia Relations? | Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Michael Kofman

78

A Turning Point for Value Investing | Mark Holowesko

79

Navigating the Fourth Turning: Power, Technology, & Moral Decline | Demetri Kofinas

80

Taking the Chainsaw to Argentina's Bureaucracy | Federico Sturzenegger

81

Is a Libertarian Revolution Underway in Argentina? | Bowtied Mara

82

Finding Value in an Upside-down World | Charles Heenan & Geoff Legg

83

What's Driving the Rise in Long-Term Bond Yields? | Jim Bianco

84

Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World | Christine Rosen

85

Investing in Argentina, AI, and More in 2025 | Zach Abraham & Chase Taylor

86

The Fall of Damascus and the New Geopolitics of the Middle East | Kamran Bokhari

87

Will AI Generate a New Growth Wave of Creative Destruction? | Herman Mark Schwartz

88

National Capitalism & Death of the International Monetary System | Russell Napier

89

The End of the German Economic Miracle | Wolfgang Münchau

90

De-banking, Censorship, and the Right to Die | Rupa Subramanya

91

Why the Fed Risks Losing Control of the Bond Market | Andy Constan

92

Semiconductors, Tariffs, & Chip Restrictions Under Trump | Chris Miller

93

Who Is Going to Win the 2024 U.S. Elections? | Henry Olsen

94

Turning Point: A New Security Order in the Middle East? | Joshua Landis

95

Financial Markets and the AI Revolution | Adam Butler

96

Moving From an Income-Driven to a Credit-Driven Cycle | Bob Elliott

97

Why the Fed's Rate Decision Marks a Profound Shift in Monetary Policy | James Aitken

98

The U.S. Assassination and Terror Threat | Jacob Ware

99

How Investors Should Think About UAP Risk | David Dorr

100

U.S. Government Investigations Into UFOs & UAP | Luis Elizondo

101

What Really Happened on 9/11? | Ray Nowosielski & John Duffy

102

New Revelations About Saudi Arabia and the CIA's Actions Ahead of 9/11 | Bob Kerrey

103

Is Modern Capitalism Broken? | Patrick Boyle

104

The 'Deep State' and the War in Ukraine (Part II) | Jeffrey Sachs

105

America 2024 & the Battle of the Elites | Nate Silver

106

Making Sense of Chaos: A Revolution in Economic Theory | J. Doyne Farmer

107

What Will an "America First" Economy Look Like? | Jim Grant

108

Making Sense of the Failed Trump Assassination

109

Why Democrats Face an Epic Collapse in 2024 | Henry Olsen

110

How To Assess True Macroeconomic Risk | Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak

111

The 'Deep State' and the War in Ukraine (Part I) | Jeffrey Sachs

112

How to Remake the Electric Grid for AI | Brian Janous

113

The Return of Meme Stock Investing | Spencer Jakab & Andrew Left

114

Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Solved World | Nick Bostrom

115

The Fight Over Elon Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package | Lawrence Fossi

116

China & the American Imperial Economy | Louis-Vincent Gave

117

How to Invest in an Inflationary Recession | Paulo Macro & Le Shrub

118

How I Grew My Brain With Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy | Scott Sherr

119

A World On The Brink of Total War | Dmitri Alperovitch

120

Where Are All the Billionaires? | Victor Haghani

121

America's National Savings and Debt Crisis | Lacy Hunt

122

What Comes After the Chinese Economic Miracle? | Anne Stevenson-Yang

123

Are Gold and Bitcoin Signaling the Return of Money Printing? | Michael Howell

124

A New Era for China's Semiconductor Industry | Paul Triolo

125

What Myths Can Teach Us About the AI Arms Race | Joshua Schrei

126

Exposing the New American Surveillance State | Byron Tau

127

What Makes Someone a Supercommunicator? | Charles Duhigg

128

The Coming Paradigm Shift in the Stock Market | Daniel Peris

129

Superhumans and the Race for AI Supremacy | Stephen Hsu

130

You Will Be Assimilated: China's Plan For Global Domination | David Goldman

131

AI, Transhumanism, and the Future of Humanity | Meghan O'Gieblyn

132

Is the Middle East Headed For Another Major War? | Kamran Bokhari

133

Public Interest Politics & the Human Spirit | Marianne Williamson

134

Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order | Gary Gerstle

135

Are We in a New Crypto Bull Market? | Framework Ventures

136

What's Driving the Fall in Oil Prices? | Rory Johnston

137

How Can We Make Sense of the UAP Conspiracy? | Diana Pasulka

138

What Elites Don't Understand About America | Rudy Havenstein

139

Who Makes The Rules In The Digital Gilded Age? | Tom Wheeler

140

Reflections on Life, Markets, & Investing | Zach Abraham

141

What Happened at OpenAI & Why It Matters | Nathaniel Whittemore

142

American Grand Strategy & the Logic of War | Edward Luttwak

143

Leadership and the Longing to Belong | Jerry Colonna

144

Artificial Intelligence and the Containment Problem | Mustafa Suleyman

145

How to Think About This Political Moment | Marshall Kosloff

146

Mounting Risk of a New World War | Walter Russell Mead

147

How America Broke Its War Machine | Michael Brenes

148

Iran's Role in the Hamas Attacks & Implications for the United States | Kamran Bokhari

149

What the Bond Sell-off Means for Investors | Andy Constan & Mike Green

150

Rise of the New Right & the Battle for America in 2024 | Henry Olsen

151

U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls On China Are Failing | Dylan Patel

152

The New Geopolitics of Global Finance | Brad Setser

153

Tech, Military, & Economic Drivers of US-China Competition | Diana Choyleva

154

Could America Lose a War Against China Over Taiwan? | Alex Velez-Green

155

Dollar Doomerism & Why Things Are Better Than You Think | Michael Nicoletos

156

Perennials & the Post-Generational Society | Mauro Guillen

157

How the US Government Will Force Banks to Fund the Deficit | Charles Calomiris

158

The Worst (Or Possibly Best) Investment Podcast EVER | Le Shrub

159

The Fourth Turning Is Here: Our Great National Challenge | Neil Howe

160

How Confidence Determines the Choices We Make | Peter Atwater

161

You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order | Carol Roth

162

The New Political-Economy | Russell Napier, Edward Chancellor, & Helen Thompson

163

White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan | General Mick Ryan

164

What the Fed's Rate Decision Will Mean for Markets | Andy Constan

165

Why You Should Care About Turkey's Elections | Nicholas Danforth & Amberin Zaman

166

America's New Religions & the Cult of Self-Making | Tara Isabella Burton

167

Why Is the Recession Taking So Long to Show Up? | Bob Elliott

168

What Generational Differences Tell Us About the Future | Jean Twenge

169

Origins of the Ukraine War & What Comes Next | Serhii Plokhy

170

"We're Gonna Get Those Bastards!" | Jared Dillian

171

Understanding the Hoax of the Century | Jacob Siegel

172

Disrupting the Battlefield: How Venture Capital is Changing Modern Warfare | Josh Wolfe

173

How to Think About the Current Moment in A.I. | John Borthwick

174

Engineering Society and the Human Experience | Michael Sacasas

175

The Threats to US Dollar Hegemony | Daniel McDowell

176

Does the Fed Have Any Idea What It's Doing? | Jeff Snider & Brent Johnson

177

How to Manage Risk in the Coming Recession | David Rosenberg

178

Is the Banking Crisis Over or Has It Just Begun? | Jeff Snider

179

What the Bailout of SVB Means for the Fed's Fight Against Inflation | Steven Kelly

180

How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World | Iain McGilchrist

181

What's Happened to Consensus Reality? | Jon Askonas

182

What Pre-WWII France Can Tell Us About America in 2023 | Jonathan Kirshner

183

How to Balance Legitimacy & Power in a Fractured World | Sir Paul Tucker

184

The 1990s and the Cancellation of the Future | Chuck Klosterman

185

The Effect of China's Reopening on Global Growth & Inflation | Shehzad Qazi

186

What Comes After Secular Stagnation? | Barry Eichengreen

187

How Sanctions and Export Controls Weaponize Global Trade & Finance | Agathe Demarais

188

Navigating the Converging Worlds of Macro & Geopolitics | Roger Hirst & Jacob Shapiro

189

Turkey-Syria & the New Geopolitics of the Greater Middle East | Joshua Landis

190

What Is Silvergate Capital & Why Does It Matter? | Edwin Dorsey

191

Are We Headed Towards a Monetary Breakdown? | Jeff Snider

192

Why You Should Care About the Twitter Files | Renée DiResta

193

How Much of Crypto Is a Criminal Conspiracy? | James Block

194

China's Plan to Decouple From the US Dollar | Diana Choyleva & Dinny McMahon

195

Crypto Contagion, Genesis, & the FTX-USDT Connection | Coffeezilla

196

America 2024, Ukraine Politics, & the Ubermensch | Marshall Kosloff

197

The Downfall of FTX and Crypto's Path Forward | Vance Spencer & Michael Anderson

198

Who is Sam Bankman-Fried and What Really Happened at FTX? | Marc Cohodes

199

Energy Security, Geopolitics, & the New Energy Order | Meghan O'Sullivan & Jason Bordoff

200

What are the Politics of a Fed Pivot? | Nick Timiraos

201

How Does China See the World? | Kaiser Kuo

202

Conspiracy Theories: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational | Michael Shermer

203

The Rise of the Global Dollar System | Perry Mehrling

204

How to Prepare the World for a Peaking China | Michael Beckley & Hal Brands

205

Dollar Milkshake Wrecking Ball | Brent Johnson & Michael Kao

206

The Battle Over Semiconductors & US-China Competition | Chris Miller

207

Why There Are Reasons To Be Hopeful About America | Scott Galloway

208

The Rise of Inflation & the Great Demographic Reversal | Charles Goodhart

209

Secular Inflation & the End of the Great Moderation | Nick Timiraos

210

Oil Market Update Report & Live Q&A | Rory Johnston

211

Navigating a World Trapped Between Scarcity & Abundance | Mike Green

212

Machine Intelligence, Humanity, & the Will to Power | Demetri Kofinas

213

Alex Jones & the War on Information | Alex Lee Moyer

214

The Price of Time in a World Without Interest | Edward Chancellor

215

Why Global Liquidity Matters Now More Than Ever | Michael Howell

216

How to Prepare for the Next Taiwan Strait Crisis | Dmitri Alperovitch, Elbridge Colby, & Jamil N. Jaffer

217

A Recession, More Inflation, or Both? | Eric Basmajian

218

Global Macro in an Age of Great Power Conflict | Demetri Kofinas

219

American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict | Elbridge Colby

220

What's Driving the Price of Oil? A Supply-Side Story | Rory Johnston

221

Turkish-Greek Relations & Battle Over the Eastern Mediterranean | Ryan Gingeras

222

Rise of Shadow Banking & Risks of a Financial Crisis | Lev Menand

223

Energy Geopolitics & the Remaking of the Modern World | Helen Thompson

224

Value Investing & How to Have "Soul in the Game" | Vitaliy Katsenelson

225

The Power of Crisis & How to Fight a Geopolitical Recession | Ian Bremmer

226

How to Trade Market Sentiment & Why Inflation Is Coming Down | Jared Dillian

227

The Path Towards Self-Actualization & How to Overcome Your Fears | Demetri Kofinas

228

The Revenge of Risk Rates & the Return of Dividend Investing | Daniel Peris

229

How to Trade the Great Rotation From Big Tech to Commodities | Tony Greer

230

Revenge of the Dollar & the Meltdown in Global Markets | Brent Johnson

231

The Collapse of LUNA & UST and the Vulnerability in Crypto | Nathaniel Whittemore

232

The New Era of Great Power Competition | John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt

233

Revenge of the Old Economy & How to Invest in the Commodity Supercycle | Jeff Currie

234

The End of the Beginning for Crypto | Michael Anderson & Vance Spencer of Framework Ventures

235

How to Position & Prepare Yourself for the End Game | Grant Williams

236

Global Food Shortages & the Need for Energy Security | Doomberg

237

How to Survive in the New Economic & Financial Order | Russell Napier

238

The Information War & Things Worth Fighting For | Demetri Kofinas

239

Preparing the U.S. & Europe for Russian Cyber Attacks | Chris Painter

240

Risks of Nuclear War & the Escalation Ladder | Jon Wolfsthal

241

The Battle for Ukraine & Prospects for World War III | Peter Zeihan

242

Hidden Forces Event in New York City | Thursday, March 31st

243

Quantifying Structural Risk in 'Zombified' Markets | Hari Krishnan & Ash Bennington

244

A History of Venture Capital & How to Make the Future | Sebastian Mallaby

245

Economic Warfare & the Weaponization of the Dollar | Julia Friedlander

246

Russia-Ukraine War & Risks of NATO-Russia Escalation | Dmitri Alperovitch

247

Nillion NMC: A Secure Processing Layer for Web3 | Miguel de Vega

248

Update on Ukraine & US-Russia Escalation

249

The PayPal Mafia & the Founders Who Shaped Silicon Valley | Jimmy Soni

250

Monetary Tightening & the End of the Risk-on Trade | Mohamed El-Erian

251

The Metaverse, Virtual Worlds, and the Problems of Philosophy | David Chalmers

252

Robinhood, Reddit, & the Revolt of the Retail Investor | Spencer Jakab

253

Why Did the Future Arrive First in Russia? | Peter Pomerantsev

254

The Kazakhstan Protests & Russia's Standoff With the West | Joanna Lillis

255

Is America Undergoing a Narrative Reset or Realignment? | Saagar Enjeti & Marshall Kosloff

256

Why Putin Plans to Invade Ukraine & What the West Can Do About It | Dmitri Alperovitch

257

Meditations on Courage & Why Fortune Favors the Brave | Ryan Holiday

258

The 'Restart of History' & How to Invest in a Broken Economy | Demetri Kofinas

259

The Power of Independent Voices & How to Make It in the Gig Economy | Doomberg

260

How the US Navy Creates Prosperity & Why We'll Miss It | Gregg Easterbrook

261

Jim Grant on What Inflation Means for Asset Values, Crypto, and Meme Stocks

262

What Happened to the American Economy & How to Fix It | Julius Krein

263

The Lab-Leak Hypothesis & the Origin of Covid-19 | Alina Chan & Matt Ridley

264

The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future | Eric Schmidt & Dan Huttenlocher

265

A Memoir of Illness, Discovery, & the Body Politic | Ross Douthat

266

Index Funds, ETFs, & the Passive Investing Revolution | Robin Wigglesworth

267

Andrew Yang on His Forward Party and the Rise of a New Political Consensus

268

Uncontrolled Spread: How COVID-19 Crushed Us & How to Fight the Next Pandemic | Scott Gottlieb

269

How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age | David Wessel

270

Wireless Wars: China's Dangerous Domination of 5G | Jon Pelson

271

A Nihilist's Guidebook for the Modern Investor | Demetri Kofinas

272

A.I. Future: Utopia or Apocalypse? Ten Visions For Our Future | Kai-Fu Lee

273

Lessons from the Soviet Union and the Flight to Safety | Simon Mikhailovich

274

The Age of Crisis: COVID-19 & our Post-Pandemic Future | Adam Tooze

275

China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia | Daniel Markey

276

How America Lost the 'Good War' in Afghanistan | Jonathan Schroden

277

Afghanistan Withdrawal & Implications for U.S. Policy in Asia | Laurel Miller

278

Opportunities for Value Investing, China's Digital Currency, & the Pivot to Asia | James Aitken

279

Kofinas Answers Audience Questions in First-Ever "Ask Me Anything" Episode

280

A History of the Future: Hope & Fear in the Social Smartphone Era | Rory Cellan-Jones

281

Is Elon Musk Humanity's Savior or a Supervillain? | Tim Higgins

282

WeWork, Adam Neumann, & the Great Startup Debacle | Maureen Farrell

283

The Asian Financial Crisis & the Birth of the Age of Debt | Russell Napier

284

The Memory Thief & the Secrets Behind How We Remember | Lauren Aguirre

285

Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World | Benjamin Bratton

286

Crypto Ethics & How to 'Make Money Great Again' | Hasu & Demetri

287

Mental Immunity & the Search for a Better Way to Think | Andy Norman

288

The Power of Mimetic Desire in Markets, Politics, & Culture | Luke Burgis

289

Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness | Tim Grover

290

Financial Nihilism, Narrative Investing, & the Hyperreality of Markets

291

Podcast Update: The Will to Win, Mimetic Desire, & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

292

Ultrasound Money & the Ethereum Triple Halving | Nikhil Shamapant

293

The Sources of Chinese Communist Party Conduct | Josh Rogin

294

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe | Niall Ferguson

295

Existential Risks & the Future of Humanity | Toby Ord

296

What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters | Steven Koonin

297

Solving the Oracle Problem: Blockchain's Missing Link | Sergey Nazarov

298

Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism | Mariana Mazzucato

299

The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart | Noreena Hertz

300

Engine of Inequality: The Fed & the Future of Wealth in America | Karen Petrou

301

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyber-Weapons Arms Race | Nicole Perlroth

302

Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit: Arguments for and Against the Network State | Balaji Srinivasan

303

Podcast Update: Cybersecurity, Financial Warfare, the Mission Driven State, & More

304

Generational Conflict, Decentralization, & Global Disorder | Radigan Carter

305

Meme 'Stonks': How Call Options & Reddit Broke Wall Street | Lily Francus

306

Generational Wealth-Building During a Fourth Turning | Radigan Carter

307

Cryptocurrencies, Foreign Threats, & the Fight of a Generation

308

Restoring Trust in an Age of Political Polarization | Kevin Vallier

309

Future of Financial Media & Digital Assets | Jason Yanowitz & Michael Ippolito

310

Social Media Purge: The Urgent Need to Regulate Big Tech | Matt Stoller

311

America's Political Precipice & the Hyperreality of Markets: Grant Williams & Ben Hunt

312

The Code of Capital: Markets, Big Tech, & Blockchain | Katharina Pistor

313

The Future of Freedom, Governance, and the Networked State

314

The Tyranny of Merit: What Has Become of the Common Good? | Michael Sandel

315

Understanding the STABLE Act and the Push to Regulate Crypto | Rohan Grey

316

What's Gone Wrong with the Democratic Party & How to Fix it | David Shor

317

What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks & Romans | Thomas E. Ricks

318

Emerging Markets & the Turkish Lira: Assessing the Risks & Opportunities | Paul McNamara

319

The Long (and Short) of it: A Cynic's Take on Markets & Investing | Jim Chanos

320

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World | Fareed Zakaria

321

Making Sense of Election 2020 and Its Aftermath | Matt Taibb

322

Limits and Consequences of Ponzi Economics on Politics, Markets, & Society

323

Rise of a New Kleptocracy: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World | Tom Burgis

324

The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare | Chris Brose

325

Isolationism: A History of America's Efforts to Shield Itself from the World | Charles Kupchan

326

Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan's Defense & American Strategy in Asia | Ian Easton

327

The Rise of Mohammed bin Salman and the Future of Saudi Arabia | Bradley Hope & Justin Scheck

328

'Accommodative' Monetary Policy & Risks to Central Bank Independence | Bill Nelson

329

The Hype Machine: The Promise and the Peril of Social Media | Sinan Aral

330

The Rise of Carry: the New Financial Order of Decaying Growth & Recurring Crisis

331

Some Thoughts to End the Summer...

332

Erdoğan's Turkey & the Revival of the Ottoman Empire | Soner Çağaptay

333

Uncharted Future: Learning to Navigate an Unpredictable World | Margaret Heffernan

334

Is Gold in a New Bull Market? A Deep-Dive Into Humanity's 5,000-Year-Old Obsession | Rick Rule

335

The Death of Engagement: America's New Cold War with China | Orville Schell

336

The Rise of Decentralized Finance | Framework Ventures' Michael Anderson & Vance Spencer

337

What the Twitter Hack Tells Us About Why the Internet Is Broken & How to Fix It | Muneeb Ali

338

Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars | Irshad Manji

339

The Rise of Ethereum, the Future of DeFi, & the Transformation of Crypto Media | Camila Russo

340

Grandstanding: the Use and Abuse of Moral Talk | Brandon Warmke & Justin Tosi

341

How to Fix America's Broken Health System (And Why It Hasn't Happened) | Vivian Lee

342

'Stonks,' the Rise of Retail Bros, & Powell's Money Printer | Tony Greer

343

Co-Founder of Neoliberal School on the Foreign Policy of Presidents from F.D.R. to Trump | Joseph Nye

344

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation & Political Warfare | Thomas Rid

345

The Age of Monopoly: Power, Censorship, & The New Consensus | Matt Stoller

346

Germany's Constitutional Court Ruling & the Myth of Central Bank Independence | Adam Tooze

347

How the Wealth Gap Drives Imbalances in Global Trade & Finance | Michael Pettis

348

The Great Monetary Inflation & the Future of Digital Money | Michael Casey

349

'The Food Supply Chain is Breaking': Food Security During a Global Pandemic | Lowell Randel

350

Radical Uncertainty: Investing in a Volatile World | Eric Peters

351

Monetary Revolution: Innovation in the Age of Financial Repression | Nic Carter

352

The Power of Authenticity, Narrative, & Breaking the Ad Model | Grant Williams & Ben Hunt

353

Surveying the Damage: The State of China's Economy in the Wake of COVID-19 | Leland Miller

354

The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Supply Chains with ISM CEO | Tom Derry

355

The Second Leg Down: Strategies for Profiting After a Market Sell-Off | Hari Krishnan

356

Gillian Tett | Wartime Economy: The Greatest Financial & Political Crisis Since World War II

357

Why a Spike in the Price of Gold Futures Matters for People Buying Toilet Paper in Nebraska | Josh Crumb

358

George Selgin | Government-Mandated Shutdown: Monetary & Fiscal Policy in Crisis

359

Ben Hubbard | Saudi Arabia's Oil Price War & the Rise of Mohammed Bin Salman

360

Coronavirus: An Analysis Using Complex Dynamic Systems Theory | Yaneer Bar-Yam

361

Theories of War & How the 'Rest' Learned to Fight the West | David Kilcullen

362

Mike Green | Passive Investing's Role in the Coronavirus Market Melt-Down & Prospects for a Melt-Up

363

Laura Huang | Find Your Edge: Learning How to Turn Adversity into Advantage

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