Bill Browder and the Fall of Glasnost: A Tale of Murder and Corruption in Russia
In Episode 33 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Bill Browder about how his wealth was plundered by Russian oligarchs and placed in the hands of Vladimir Putin. This is the story of Bill Br...
19 Feb 20181h 8min
Ari Paul | How the Top Crypto Funds Are Trading and Investing in Cryptocurrency
In Episode 32 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Ari Paul about the inner workings of hedge funds focused exclusively on the cryptocurrency space. Over the course of the last year, cryptocu...
12 Feb 20181h 6min
Chris Burniske | How Do You Value a Cryptocurrency? Cryptoeconomics and How to Build a Financial Model for Valuing Cryptoassets
In Episode 31 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Chris Burniske about how to value a cryptocurrency. Chris is a co-founder of Placeholder, a New York venture firm that specializes in c...
29 Jan 20181h 9min
Tim O'Reilly | We Can Predict the Future Only by Learning to Map the Present
In Episode 30 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas asks the question, "how can we learn how to predict the future?" According to his guest, Tim O'Reilly, learning how to predict the future starts with bu...
22 Jan 20181h 5min
The Iranian Protests and the Forces Driving Change Across the Middle East | Hooman Majd
In Episode 29 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Hooman Majd about how to interpret the Iranian protests within the wider political, cultural, and financial dimensions of the greater Middle...
8 Jan 20181h 11min
Industrial Society and Its Future | Machine Intelligence, Encryption, and the Will to Power
In Episode 28 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas lays out his vision for a future driven by the emergent forces we have been covering in 2017. He reads passages from Ted Kaczynski's "Industrial So...
1 Jan 201826min
Gary Shilling | Regulatory Reform and the Impact of the Trump Tax Plan on the U.S. Economy
In Episode 27 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with economist Gary Shilling, who famously called the bottom in what has become a 36-year bull market in US Treasuries, about the ramifications o...
18 Des 20171h 4min
Climate Science, Climate Models, and Climate Change. What Is Driving The Earth's Warming? | NASA's Gavin Schmidt
In Episode 26 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with NASA's Chief Climate Scientist and Head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Gavin Schmidt. The two cut through the controversy ...
11 Des 20171h 12min
