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What Odd Lots Says About Geopolitics

18 episodes about geopolitics

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Key Insights on Geopolitics

Geopolitics has "entered the corporate world and is dead centre" in C-suite discussions, requiring new expertise and board focus

  • Bitcoin reached $70,000 and gold hit $5,400/ounce as markets priced geopolitical risk, with Polymarket seeing record $529M trading volume
  • The U.S. economy is supported by aggressive fiscal stimulus, but faces headwinds from trade policies and geopolitical fragility.
  • Mills claims Trump's foreign policy failures stem from his 'underratedly agreeable personality' and inability to say no to hawkish advisors
  • Mills argues Israeli influence on U.S. foreign policy represents a 'disgusting amount' of control over American decision-making
  • Ray Dalio identifies five forces driving civilizational cycles: monetary systems, domestic politics, geopolitics, acts of nature, and technological innovation
  • "The world will either be running on American AI or be running on Chinese AI" - Mark, emphasizing the geopolitical stakes of AI dominance
  • 24/7 permissionless markets allowed real-time price discovery during geopolitical crisis while traditional finance waited for Monday open

Episodes

Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip

Why Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman Built The World's Largest Computer Chip

Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

Deutsche Bank's Ozan Tarman and Aditya Singhal on Understanding the Macro Risks

Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense

Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields

Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive

How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

How Taiwan Became the World's Most Perilous Geopolitical Chokepoint

Jack McClendon on Why It's So Hard to Create a New American Oil Boom

Jack McClendon on Why It's So Hard to Create a New American Oil Boom

Brad Setser on the War in Iran and the Future of the US Dollar

Brad Setser on the War in Iran and the Future of the US Dollar

War in Iran Is Already Reshaping East Asia's Energy Future

War in Iran Is Already Reshaping East Asia's Energy Future

This Is How Big Money Is Trading the War in Iran

This Is How Big Money Is Trading the War in Iran

Here's Why The Iran War Is Prompting A Safe Haven Rethink

Here's Why The Iran War Is Prompting A Safe Haven Rethink

Greg Brew on Surging Energy and the 'Strategic Trap' of the War in Iran

Greg Brew on Surging Energy and the 'Strategic Trap' of the War in Iran

War in Iran Is Redrawing the Map for Natural Gas

War in Iran Is Redrawing the Map for Natural Gas

What War in Iran Means for China's Teapot Oil Refineries

What War in Iran Means for China's Teapot Oil Refineries

War in Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before

War in Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before

Rory Johnston on How Oil Could Surge to Over $200 a Barrel

Rory Johnston on How Oil Could Surge to Over $200 a Barrel

Pimco CEO Manny Roman on Japanese Bonds and the Sell America Trade

Pimco CEO Manny Roman on Japanese Bonds and the Sell America Trade

Greg Grandin on how the Monroe Doctrine Became the Donroe Doctrine

Greg Grandin on how the Monroe Doctrine Became the Donroe Doctrine

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