
Hidden Forces
Why does the price of gold futures matter to people buying toilet paper in Nebraska? How can we stop social media from eroding our democracy? Are we really in a new Cold War with China? On Hidden Forces, media entrepreneur and market analyst Demetri Kofinas uses a financial and cultural lens to help listeners make connections, challenge consensus narratives, and realize novel solutions to complex problems. Entrepreneurs, investors, scholars, artists, and others seeking to understand today’s complex societal problems trust Hidden Forces to give them an edge. Michael Casey and Sheila Warren write that Kofinas is “a master at drawing big-picture narratives” around complex problems, while Nathaniel Whitmore says Hidden Forces is “one of the most unique podcasts in the business space because it comes at business and markets topics with an interesting and broad, polyglot lens.” Podcast episodes feature a wide variety of luminaries, visionaries, and contrarians.
Episodes


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

Opportunities for Value Investing, Chinese Digital Currency, & the Pivot to Asia | James Aitken

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness | Tim Grover

Financial Nihilism, Narrative Investing, & the Hyperreality of Markets

Ultrasound Money & the Ethereum Triple Halving | Nikhil Shamapant

The Sources of Chinese Communist Party Conduct | Josh Rogin

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe | Niall Ferguson

Existential Risks & Humanity's Future | Toby Ord

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