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What Odd Lots Says About Geopolitics
19 episodes about geopolitics
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Key Insights on Geopolitics
Current geopolitical problems are minor compared to threats like Hitler in the 1930s or nuclear standoffs during Cold War I
- Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August influenced Kennedy's handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, though she never intended to shape foreign policy
- Ray Dalio identifies five forces driving civilizational cycles: monetary systems, domestic politics, geopolitics, acts of nature, and technological innovation
- Bitcoin reached $70,000 and gold hit $5,400/ounce as markets priced geopolitical risk, with Polymarket seeing record $529M trading volume
- Martin Wolf describes the Iran situation as a 'nightmare scenario' but notes markets remain resilient, with the S&P 500 hitting records despite geopolitical chaos
- Social media warfare allows influencers to direct attention and provide targeting coordinates, becoming new form of geopolitical entertainment
- Scott Horton has conducted 6,200+ interviews since 2003, documenting American foreign policy failures across multiple administrations
- Private credit market stress preceded the Iran war, suggesting systemic fragility independent of geopolitical events
Episodes
How the 1994 World Cup Transformed the Business of Football Forever
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
Why the Price of Oil, Beef, Electricity, and Everything Else Makes No Sense
Martin Wolf on the 'Terrifying' Superpower That the US Wields
Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive
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
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
This Is How Big Money Is Trading the War in Iran
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
War in Iran Is Redrawing the Map for Natural Gas
What War in Iran Means for China's Teapot Oil Refineries
War in Iran Is Creating a Fertilizer Crisis Like Never Before
Rory Johnston on How Oil Could Surge to Over $200 a Barrel
Pimco CEO Manny Roman on Japanese Bonds and the Sell America Trade
Greg Grandin on how the Monroe Doctrine Became the Donroe Doctrine
Books on geopolitics
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