Hidden Forces

By Demetri Kofinas

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What Elites Don’t Understan...

12.07.2023

In Episode 342 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Rudy Havenstein, the owner and operator of a satirical Twitter account that regularly mocks Western policymakers and politicians for their endless wars, corporate bailouts, and tone-deaf public statements about the ...

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12.07.2023 What Elites Don’t Understand About America \| Rudy Havenstein In Episode 342 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Rudy Havenstein, the owner and operator of a satirical Twitter account that regularly mocks Western policymakers and politicians for their endless wars, corporate bailouts, and tone-deaf public statements about the ...
12.04.2023 Who Makes The Rules In The Digital Gilded Age? \| Tom Wheeler In Episode 341 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Tom Wheeler, the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the author of the recently published book “Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?” Wheeler ...
11.27.2023 Reflections on Life, Markets, & Investing \| Zach Abraham In Episode 340 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Zach Abraham, the Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Bulwark Capital Management and the host of the Know Your Risk Radio Program. Zach and Demetri spend the first hour of ...
11.21.2023 What Happened at OpenAI & Why It Matters \| Nathaniel Whittemore In Episode 339 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Nathaniel Whittemore, host of the AI Breakdown for a timely conversation about the latest news surrounding the firing of OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. This was recorded on Monday, ...
11.20.2023 American Grand Strategy & the Logic of War \| Edward Luttwak In Episode 338 of Hidden Forces, speaks with Dr. Edward Luttwak about American grand strategy and the logic of war. Dr. Luttwak is an author and consultant to governments and companies around the world and is known for his work ...
11.13.2023 Leadership and the Longing to Belong \| Jerry Colonna In Episode 337 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jerry Colonna, the co-founder and CEO of the executive coaching and leadership development company Reboot, the host of the Reboot Podcast, and the author of the recently published book “Reunion: ...
11.06.2023 Artificial Intelligence and the Containment Problem \| Mustafa Suleyman In Episode 336 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman about the containment problem and the AI dilemma that he outlines in his book, “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma." ...
11.02.2023 How to Think About This Political Moment \| Marshall Kosloff In Episode 335 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Marshall Kosloff. Marshall is the host of The Realignment and Arsenal of Democracy podcasts and is a media fellow at Hudson Institute. Marshall and Demetri spend the first hour applying ...
10.30.2023 Mounting Risk of a New World War \| Walter Russell Mead In Episode 334 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with famed historian of American Foreign policy Walter Russell Mead about the evolving war in the Middle East and why we are living through the most dangerous period in international affairs ...
10.23.2023 How America Broke Its War Machine \| Michael Brenes In Episode 333 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Brenes, the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University who recently authored an article for Foreign Affairs about the U.S. defense industrial base titled “How ...
10.16.2023 Iran's Role in the Hamas Attacks & Implications for the United States \| Kamran Bokhari In Episode 332 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with geopolitical analyst and forecaster Kamran Bokhari. Kamran is the Senior Director of the Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy and has served ...
10.10.2023 What the Bond Sell-off Means for Investors \| Andy Constan & Mike Green In Episode 331 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Andy Constan and Mike Green after a week of turmoil in the bond market that saw a dramatic repricing of long-term government debt, raising debt servicing costs for the US ...
10.09.2023 Rise of the New Right & the Battle for America in 2024 \| Henry Olsen In Episode 330 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Henry Olsen, author of “Working Class Republican” and “The Four Faces of the Republican Party,” about where the United States and other western democratic countries find themselves politically today, the ...
10.04.2023 U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls On China Are Failing \| Dylan Patel In Episode 329 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dylan Patel, a semiconductor and A.I. analyst and the founder of boutique Semiconductor research and consulting firm SemiAnalysis, about how U.S. semiconductor export controls are failing and what the U.S. ...
10.02.2023 The New Geopolitics of Global Finance \| Brad Setser In Episode 328 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Brad Setser, the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he specializes in global trade and capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis, and sovereign debt restructuring. Brad ...
09.25.2023 Tech, Military, & Economic Drivers of US-China Competition \| Diana Choyleva In Episode 327 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Diana Choyleva in what was originally recorded as a live Q&A; for members of our Genius Community. The subject of the Q&A; is the latest state of US-China relations with ...
09.18.2023 Could America Lose a War Against China Over Taiwan? \| Alex Velez-Green In Episode 326 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Alex Velez-Green, the fmr. National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, who helped staff the senator on the Armed Services Committee and advised him on matters related to strengthening ...
09.15.2023 Reflections on Current Affairs & the Need for Frameworks This is the first in a special series of episodes dedicated to exploring Demetri’s frameworks and ideas about the most consequential forces shaping our lives and the world around us. You can subscribe to our premium content and gain access ...
09.11.2023 Dollar Doomerism & Why Things Are Better Than You Think \| Michael Nicoletos In Episode 325 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Nicoletos, the founder and CEO of DeFi Advisors, an independent investment advisory firm specializing in macro and digital assets. Michael and Demetri spend the first twenty minutes discussing Michael’s ...
08.21.2023 Perennials & the Post-Generational Society \| Mauro Guillen In Episode 324 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Mauro Guillen, a Professor of Multinational Management and Vice Dean of the Executive MBA Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mauro combines his training as a ...
08.14.2023 How the US Government Will Force Banks to Fund the Deficit \| Charles Calomiris In Episode 323 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the former Chief Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Director of the Center for Politics, Economics, and History at the University of Texas at ...
08.07.2023 The Worst (Or Possibly Best) Investment Podcast EVER \| Le Shrub In Episode 322 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with someone he has gotten to know mainly by following his anonymous account on Twitter where he goes by the name Shrubbery Capital or Le Shrub, for short. Le Shrub consistently ...
07.27.2023 The Fourth Turning Is Here: Our Great National Challenge \| Neil Howe In Episode 321 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with bestselling author, renowned historian, economist, and theorist of generational change, Neil Howe. Twenty-five years ago, Neil and his late co-author William Strauss put forward a provocative new theory of American ...
07.24.2023 How Confidence Determines the Choices We Make \| Peter Atwater In Episode 320 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Peter Atwater, a recognized expert on the impact of confidence on individual and group decision-making, which he examines in his book, “The Confidence Map: Charting a Path From Chaos to ...
07.13.2023 You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order \| Carol Roth In Episode 319 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Carol Roth, the author of “You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back.” The argument that Carol makes in the book ...
07.03.2023 The New Political-Economy \| Russell Napier, Edward Chancellor, & Helen Thompson In Episode 318 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political and financial historians Edward Chancellor, Russell Napier, and Helen Thompson. All three have appeared individually on the podcast before and joined Demetri ahead of his latest Genius community dinner ...
06.26.2023 White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan \| General Mick Ryan In Episode 317 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with General Mick Ryan. Mick Ryan is an author, strategist, and retired major general who has commanded at multiple levels in the Australian Army and served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and East ...
06.14.2023 What the Fed’s Rate Decision Will Mean for Markets \| Andy Constan In Episode 316 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Andy Constan about this week’s FOMC meeting and what the Federal Reserve rate decision could signal about the direction of interest rates, inflation, and economic growth. Will it be heralded ...
06.05.2023 Why You Should Care About Turkey’s Elections \| Nicholas Danforth & Amberin Zaman In Episode 315 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas is joined by Nicholas Danforth and Amberin Zaman to discuss the significance of the recent elections in Turkey for Turkish politics, the country’s complex relationship with its neighbors and allies in Europe ...
05.29.2023 America’s New Religions & the Cult of Self-Making \| Tara Isabella Burton In Episode 314 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with novelist, sociologist, and theologian Tara Isabella Burton about America’s new religions, the evolution of the self in contemporary culture, and what it all means for the future of Western society. ...
05.18.2023 Why Is the Recession Taking So Long to Show Up? \| Bob Elliott In Episode 313 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Bob Elliott, the co-founder and CEO of Unlimited, a financial services firm that uses machine learning to create products that replicate the index returns of alternative investments. Demetri asked Bob ...
05.15.2023 What Generational Differences Tell Us About the Future \| Jean Twenge In Episode 312 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofians speaks with Jean Twenge, a researcher and professor of psychology who has written extensively about generational differences. Jean Twenge explains what we know about every generation born since 1925, arguing that the ...
05.08.2023 Origins of the Ukraine War & What Comes Next \| Serhii Plokhy In Episode 311 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Serhii Plokhy, the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and a leading authority on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Plokhii has published extensively on the international history ...
05.01.2023 “We’re Gonna Get Those Bastards!” \| Jared Dillian In Episode 310 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with writer and author Jared Dillian in what was originally aired as a Live Q&A; for members of the Hidden Forces Genius Community. Jared is the editor of The Daily Dirtnap, ...
04.24.2023 Understanding the Hoax of the Century \| Jacob Siegel In Episode 309 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jacob Siegel, a senior editor at Tablet magazine and the author of a widely shared article about disinformation titled, “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.” The ‘hoax’ ...
04.17.2023 Disrupting the Battlefield: How Venture Capital is Changing Modern Warfare \| Josh Wolfe In Episode 308 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital about the state of venture investing and how venture capital is disrupting the battlefield and changing the nature of warfare. Josh ...
04.10.2023 How to Think About the Current Moment in A.I. \| John Borthwick In Episode 307 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the founder and CEO of Betaworks, John Borthwick about the current moment in artificial intelligence. In John’s first appearance on the podcast in 2017, Demetri and he spoke about the ...
04.06.2023 Engineering Society and the Human Experience \| Michael Sacasas In Episode 306 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Sacasas. Michael is the executive director of the Christian Study Center in Gainesville Florida and the author of The Convivial Society, a widely read newsletter about technology, culture, and ...
03.30.2023 The Threats to US Dollar Hegemony \| Daniel McDowell In Episode 305 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Daniel McDowell, the author of “Bucking the Buck,” a timely new book that seeks to establish a clear relationship between the heightened use of financial sanctions and the rise of ...
03.27.2023 Does the Fed Have Any Idea What It’s Doing? \| Jeff Snider & Brent Johnson In Episode 304 of Hidden Forces, Demetri shares the recording from a Live Q&A; he hosted on Thursday, March 23rd with Brent Johnson and Jeff Snider. The three discussed the FOMC’s latest rate hike decision and if the Fed is ...
03.22.2023 How to Manage Risk in the Coming Recession \| David Rosenberg In Episode 303 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with economist David Rosenberg. David is the founder and president of Rosenberg Research, an economic and financial market consulting firm that provides advice to thousands of retail and institutional clients across ...
03.20.2023 Is the Banking Crisis Over or Has It Just Begun? \| Jeff Snider In Episode 302 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jeff Snider. Jeff is Chief Strategist for Atlas Financial and co-host of the Eurodollar University podcast where he untangles the inner workings of the global monetary and Eurodollar reserve currency ...
03.13.2023 What the Bailout of SVB Means for the Fed's Fight Against Inflation \| Steven Kelly In Episode 301 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Steven Kelly about the government's decision to bail out depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and what this decision means for monetary policy and the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation. This ...
03.13.2023 How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World \| Iain McGilchrist In Episode 300 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. Most people know Dr. McGilchrist for having authored “The Master and His Emissary” a book about what we popularly refer to as “the Divided Brain” and its ...
03.06.2023 What’s Happened to Consensus Reality? \| Jon Askonas In Episode 299 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jon Askonas a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America where he works on the connections between the republican tradition, technology, and national security. Jon is the author ...
02.20.2023 What Pre-WWII France Can Tell Us About America in 2023 \| Jonathan Kirshner In Episode 298 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College, Jonathan Kirshner. Dr. Kirshner belongs to the school of international relations known as “classical realism,” which places a unique emphasis ...
02.13.2023 How to Balance Legitimacy & Power in a Fractured World \| Sir Paul Tucker In Episode 297 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Paul Tucker. During his time at the BoE, Sir Paul sat on the bank’s monetary policy, financial stability, and prudential ...
02.06.2023 The 1990s and the Cancellation of the Future \| Chuck Klosterman In Episode 296 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chuck Klosterman, a bestselling author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. His most recent book about the 1990s describes a decade that happened long ago, but not ...
01.30.2023 The Effect of China’s Reopening on Global Growth & Inflation \| Shehzad Qazi In Episode 295 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Shehzad Qazi, the Managing Director of China Beige Book, which provides institutional investors and corporate decision-makers with market-leading insights derived directly from their nationwide proprietary data on the Chinese economy. ...
01.23.2023 What Comes After Secular Stagnation? \| Barry Eichengreen In Episode 294 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen. In his first appearance on this podcast nearly five years ago, Dr. Eichengreen discussed the legacy ...

Older episodes

12.07.2023 What Elites Don’t Understand About America \| Rudy Havenstein In Episode 342 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Rudy Havenstein, the owner and operator of a satirical Twitter account that regularly mocks Western policymakers and politicians for their endless wars, corporate bailouts, and tone-deaf public statements about the ...
12.04.2023 Who Makes The Rules In The Digital Gilded Age? \| Tom Wheeler In Episode 341 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Tom Wheeler, the former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the author of the recently published book “Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?” Wheeler ...
11.27.2023 Reflections on Life, Markets, & Investing \| Zach Abraham In Episode 340 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Zach Abraham, the Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Bulwark Capital Management and the host of the Know Your Risk Radio Program. Zach and Demetri spend the first hour of ...
11.21.2023 What Happened at OpenAI & Why It Matters \| Nathaniel Whittemore In Episode 339 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Nathaniel Whittemore, host of the AI Breakdown for a timely conversation about the latest news surrounding the firing of OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. This was recorded on Monday, ...
11.20.2023 American Grand Strategy & the Logic of War \| Edward Luttwak In Episode 338 of Hidden Forces, speaks with Dr. Edward Luttwak about American grand strategy and the logic of war. Dr. Luttwak is an author and consultant to governments and companies around the world and is known for his work ...
11.13.2023 Leadership and the Longing to Belong \| Jerry Colonna In Episode 337 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jerry Colonna, the co-founder and CEO of the executive coaching and leadership development company Reboot, the host of the Reboot Podcast, and the author of the recently published book “Reunion: ...
11.06.2023 Artificial Intelligence and the Containment Problem \| Mustafa Suleyman In Episode 336 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman about the containment problem and the AI dilemma that he outlines in his book, “The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma." ...
11.02.2023 How to Think About This Political Moment \| Marshall Kosloff In Episode 335 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Marshall Kosloff. Marshall is the host of The Realignment and Arsenal of Democracy podcasts and is a media fellow at Hudson Institute. Marshall and Demetri spend the first hour applying ...
10.30.2023 Mounting Risk of a New World War \| Walter Russell Mead In Episode 334 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with famed historian of American Foreign policy Walter Russell Mead about the evolving war in the Middle East and why we are living through the most dangerous period in international affairs ...
10.23.2023 How America Broke Its War Machine \| Michael Brenes In Episode 333 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Brenes, the Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale University who recently authored an article for Foreign Affairs about the U.S. defense industrial base titled “How ...
10.16.2023 Iran's Role in the Hamas Attacks & Implications for the United States \| Kamran Bokhari In Episode 332 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with geopolitical analyst and forecaster Kamran Bokhari. Kamran is the Senior Director of the Eurasian Security & Prosperity Portfolio at the New Lines Institute for Strategy & Policy and has served ...
10.10.2023 What the Bond Sell-off Means for Investors \| Andy Constan & Mike Green In Episode 331 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Andy Constan and Mike Green after a week of turmoil in the bond market that saw a dramatic repricing of long-term government debt, raising debt servicing costs for the US ...
10.09.2023 Rise of the New Right & the Battle for America in 2024 \| Henry Olsen In Episode 330 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Henry Olsen, author of “Working Class Republican” and “The Four Faces of the Republican Party,” about where the United States and other western democratic countries find themselves politically today, the ...
10.04.2023 U.S. Semiconductor Export Controls On China Are Failing \| Dylan Patel In Episode 329 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dylan Patel, a semiconductor and A.I. analyst and the founder of boutique Semiconductor research and consulting firm SemiAnalysis, about how U.S. semiconductor export controls are failing and what the U.S. ...
10.02.2023 The New Geopolitics of Global Finance \| Brad Setser In Episode 328 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Brad Setser, the Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he specializes in global trade and capital flows, financial vulnerability analysis, and sovereign debt restructuring. Brad ...
09.25.2023 Tech, Military, & Economic Drivers of US-China Competition \| Diana Choyleva In Episode 327 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Diana Choyleva in what was originally recorded as a live Q&A; for members of our Genius Community. The subject of the Q&A; is the latest state of US-China relations with ...
09.18.2023 Could America Lose a War Against China Over Taiwan? \| Alex Velez-Green In Episode 326 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Alex Velez-Green, the fmr. National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, who helped staff the senator on the Armed Services Committee and advised him on matters related to strengthening ...
09.15.2023 Reflections on Current Affairs & the Need for Frameworks This is the first in a special series of episodes dedicated to exploring Demetri’s frameworks and ideas about the most consequential forces shaping our lives and the world around us. You can subscribe to our premium content and gain access ...
09.11.2023 Dollar Doomerism & Why Things Are Better Than You Think \| Michael Nicoletos In Episode 325 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Nicoletos, the founder and CEO of DeFi Advisors, an independent investment advisory firm specializing in macro and digital assets. Michael and Demetri spend the first twenty minutes discussing Michael’s ...
08.21.2023 Perennials & the Post-Generational Society \| Mauro Guillen In Episode 324 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Mauro Guillen, a Professor of Multinational Management and Vice Dean of the Executive MBA Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mauro combines his training as a ...
08.14.2023 How the US Government Will Force Banks to Fund the Deficit \| Charles Calomiris In Episode 323 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the former Chief Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Director of the Center for Politics, Economics, and History at the University of Texas at ...
08.07.2023 The Worst (Or Possibly Best) Investment Podcast EVER \| Le Shrub In Episode 322 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with someone he has gotten to know mainly by following his anonymous account on Twitter where he goes by the name Shrubbery Capital or Le Shrub, for short. Le Shrub consistently ...
07.27.2023 The Fourth Turning Is Here: Our Great National Challenge \| Neil Howe In Episode 321 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with bestselling author, renowned historian, economist, and theorist of generational change, Neil Howe. Twenty-five years ago, Neil and his late co-author William Strauss put forward a provocative new theory of American ...
07.24.2023 How Confidence Determines the Choices We Make \| Peter Atwater In Episode 320 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Peter Atwater, a recognized expert on the impact of confidence on individual and group decision-making, which he examines in his book, “The Confidence Map: Charting a Path From Chaos to ...
07.13.2023 You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order \| Carol Roth In Episode 319 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Carol Roth, the author of “You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back.” The argument that Carol makes in the book ...
07.03.2023 The New Political-Economy \| Russell Napier, Edward Chancellor, & Helen Thompson In Episode 318 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political and financial historians Edward Chancellor, Russell Napier, and Helen Thompson. All three have appeared individually on the podcast before and joined Demetri ahead of his latest Genius community dinner ...
06.26.2023 White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan \| General Mick Ryan In Episode 317 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with General Mick Ryan. Mick Ryan is an author, strategist, and retired major general who has commanded at multiple levels in the Australian Army and served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and East ...
06.14.2023 What the Fed’s Rate Decision Will Mean for Markets \| Andy Constan In Episode 316 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Andy Constan about this week’s FOMC meeting and what the Federal Reserve rate decision could signal about the direction of interest rates, inflation, and economic growth. Will it be heralded ...
06.05.2023 Why You Should Care About Turkey’s Elections \| Nicholas Danforth & Amberin Zaman In Episode 315 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas is joined by Nicholas Danforth and Amberin Zaman to discuss the significance of the recent elections in Turkey for Turkish politics, the country’s complex relationship with its neighbors and allies in Europe ...
05.29.2023 America’s New Religions & the Cult of Self-Making \| Tara Isabella Burton In Episode 314 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with novelist, sociologist, and theologian Tara Isabella Burton about America’s new religions, the evolution of the self in contemporary culture, and what it all means for the future of Western society. ...
05.18.2023 Why Is the Recession Taking So Long to Show Up? \| Bob Elliott In Episode 313 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Bob Elliott, the co-founder and CEO of Unlimited, a financial services firm that uses machine learning to create products that replicate the index returns of alternative investments. Demetri asked Bob ...
05.15.2023 What Generational Differences Tell Us About the Future \| Jean Twenge In Episode 312 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofians speaks with Jean Twenge, a researcher and professor of psychology who has written extensively about generational differences. Jean Twenge explains what we know about every generation born since 1925, arguing that the ...
05.08.2023 Origins of the Ukraine War & What Comes Next \| Serhii Plokhy In Episode 311 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Serhii Plokhy, the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and a leading authority on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Plokhii has published extensively on the international history ...
05.01.2023 “We’re Gonna Get Those Bastards!” \| Jared Dillian In Episode 310 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with writer and author Jared Dillian in what was originally aired as a Live Q&A; for members of the Hidden Forces Genius Community. Jared is the editor of The Daily Dirtnap, ...
04.24.2023 Understanding the Hoax of the Century \| Jacob Siegel In Episode 309 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jacob Siegel, a senior editor at Tablet magazine and the author of a widely shared article about disinformation titled, “A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century.” The ‘hoax’ ...
04.17.2023 Disrupting the Battlefield: How Venture Capital is Changing Modern Warfare \| Josh Wolfe In Episode 308 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Josh Wolfe, co-founder and managing partner at Lux Capital about the state of venture investing and how venture capital is disrupting the battlefield and changing the nature of warfare. Josh ...
04.10.2023 How to Think About the Current Moment in A.I. \| John Borthwick In Episode 307 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the founder and CEO of Betaworks, John Borthwick about the current moment in artificial intelligence. In John’s first appearance on the podcast in 2017, Demetri and he spoke about the ...
04.06.2023 Engineering Society and the Human Experience \| Michael Sacasas In Episode 306 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Michael Sacasas. Michael is the executive director of the Christian Study Center in Gainesville Florida and the author of The Convivial Society, a widely read newsletter about technology, culture, and ...
03.30.2023 The Threats to US Dollar Hegemony \| Daniel McDowell In Episode 305 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Daniel McDowell, the author of “Bucking the Buck,” a timely new book that seeks to establish a clear relationship between the heightened use of financial sanctions and the rise of ...
03.27.2023 Does the Fed Have Any Idea What It’s Doing? \| Jeff Snider & Brent Johnson In Episode 304 of Hidden Forces, Demetri shares the recording from a Live Q&A; he hosted on Thursday, March 23rd with Brent Johnson and Jeff Snider. The three discussed the FOMC’s latest rate hike decision and if the Fed is ...
03.22.2023 How to Manage Risk in the Coming Recession \| David Rosenberg In Episode 303 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with economist David Rosenberg. David is the founder and president of Rosenberg Research, an economic and financial market consulting firm that provides advice to thousands of retail and institutional clients across ...
03.20.2023 Is the Banking Crisis Over or Has It Just Begun? \| Jeff Snider In Episode 302 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jeff Snider. Jeff is Chief Strategist for Atlas Financial and co-host of the Eurodollar University podcast where he untangles the inner workings of the global monetary and Eurodollar reserve currency ...
03.13.2023 What the Bailout of SVB Means for the Fed's Fight Against Inflation \| Steven Kelly In Episode 301 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Steven Kelly about the government's decision to bail out depositors at Silicon Valley Bank and what this decision means for monetary policy and the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation. This ...
03.13.2023 How Our Brains Model Reality & the True Nature of the World \| Iain McGilchrist In Episode 300 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. Most people know Dr. McGilchrist for having authored “The Master and His Emissary” a book about what we popularly refer to as “the Divided Brain” and its ...
03.06.2023 What’s Happened to Consensus Reality? \| Jon Askonas In Episode 299 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jon Askonas a professor of politics at the Catholic University of America where he works on the connections between the republican tradition, technology, and national security. Jon is the author ...
02.20.2023 What Pre-WWII France Can Tell Us About America in 2023 \| Jonathan Kirshner In Episode 298 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Boston College, Jonathan Kirshner. Dr. Kirshner belongs to the school of international relations known as “classical realism,” which places a unique emphasis ...
02.13.2023 How to Balance Legitimacy & Power in a Fractured World \| Sir Paul Tucker In Episode 297 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Paul Tucker. During his time at the BoE, Sir Paul sat on the bank’s monetary policy, financial stability, and prudential ...
02.06.2023 The 1990s and the Cancellation of the Future \| Chuck Klosterman In Episode 296 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chuck Klosterman, a bestselling author and essayist whose work focuses on American popular culture. His most recent book about the 1990s describes a decade that happened long ago, but not ...
01.30.2023 The Effect of China’s Reopening on Global Growth & Inflation \| Shehzad Qazi In Episode 295 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Shehzad Qazi, the Managing Director of China Beige Book, which provides institutional investors and corporate decision-makers with market-leading insights derived directly from their nationwide proprietary data on the Chinese economy. ...
01.23.2023 What Comes After Secular Stagnation? \| Barry Eichengreen In Episode 294 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Distinguished Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen. In his first appearance on this podcast nearly five years ago, Dr. Eichengreen discussed the legacy ...

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What Elites Don’t Understand About America | Rudy Havenstein

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

Reflections on Life, Markets, & Investing | Zach Abraham

What Happened at OpenAI & Why It Matters | Nathaniel Whittemore

American Grand Strategy & the Logic of War | Edward Luttwak

Leadership and the Longing to Belong | Jerry Colonna

Artificial Intelligence and the Containment Problem | Mustafa Suleyman

How to Think About This Political Moment | Marshall Kosloff

Mounting Risk of a New World War | Walter Russell Mead

How America Broke Its War Machine | Michael Brenes

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

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

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

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

The New Geopolitics of Global Finance | Brad Setser

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

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

Reflections on Current Affairs & the Need for Frameworks

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

Perennials & the Post-Generational Society | Mauro Guillen

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

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

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

How Confidence Determines the Choices We Make | Peter Atwater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What Generational Differences Tell Us About the Future | Jean Twenge

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

“We’re Gonna Get Those Bastards!” | Jared Dillian

Understanding the Hoax of the Century | Jacob Siegel

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

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

Engineering Society and the Human Experience | Michael Sacasas

The Threats to US Dollar Hegemony | Daniel McDowell

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

How to Manage Risk in the Coming Recession | David Rosenberg

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

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

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

What’s Happened to Consensus Reality? | Jon Askonas

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

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

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

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

What Comes After Secular Stagnation? | Barry Eichengreen

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