
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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Path Through Financial Repression | Charles Calomiris

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

Narrative Collapse & the Search for New Theories | Pippa Malmgren

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

Wealth Preservation During a Fourth Turning | Russell Napier

Dangerous Dependency Apple & the Rise of China Patrick McGee

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

How To Monetize Government Policy | Mark Spindel

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

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

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

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