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02:14 – Introduction to Edward Fishman
08:24 – The failures of economic warfare
14:04 – What Stuart Levy can teach us about economic
19:26 – Who even want to work at banks nowadays?
22:10 – The most successful sanction in modern times
27:02 – The dangers of sanctions, export controls and tarifs
32:56 – What is a denial order and why is it such a powerful tool?
37:52 – What is the entity list and what is it used for?
38:55 – Technology chokepoints and the challenges they pose
46:08 – The secret to the American success
48:29 – Is the price cap on Russian oil actually working as intended?
53:31 – The oil market is changing
55:17 – Where is the global economy heading?

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02:29 – Introduction to Julia Lane
03:42 – We need to rethink how we generate trustworthy data
12:49 – How does data collection look like in the U.S?
18:14 – How do we find out what firms are working in artificial intelligence?
24:53 – How Lane believes we can solve the challenges of collecting trustworthy data
30:38 – How you maintain trust from an operational point of view
32:38 – What we can learn from the New Zealand data collection system
35:57 – How confident can we be in the economic data
38:26 – We need a standardised approach to data collection
40:10 – Lane's future plans for solving the challenges of data collection

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02:09 – Introduction to Daniel Crosby
07:55 – What caused Crosby to write his book?
11:28 – How would Crosby like people to read his book?
13:40 – Does there exist a perfect moment to invest?
17:19 – Crosby's perspective on valuations
21:08 – Does it makes sense to use financial advisors?
25:33 – Taking the worst case off the table
30:00 – How to achieve psychological, financial safety with a low budget
32:25 – The relationship between fees and performance
34:47 – Giving your accounts a purpose
38:04 – The name of your accounts matters
41:23 – We have been wrong about will power
45:01 – Off-loading your mental bandwidth
46:42 – The cheat meal of your financial life
48:03 – Are we thinking too much about happiness?

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02:14 – Introduction to Carola Binder
03:20 – How did she approach her research?
07:55 – What does inflation historically mean?
11:19 – How the view on paper money has changed over time
16:25 – How the role of the Fed has evolved historically
22:35 – How gold has impacted the
24:17 – Controlling paper money – advancing democracy or centralizing power?
29:16 – Is 2% inflation the wrong target?
35:27 – Incorporating asset prices into central bank decision making
40:29 – How does Binder measure inflation expectations?
47:10 – Has inflation expectations risen since the Covid19 period?
49:57 – Does the high governmental debt imply a high inflation period ahead?

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02:04 – Introduction to Richard Holden
06:06 – A whole year without cash
08:08 – What are the benefits of cash?
12:40 – The implications of a cashless society
23:53 – A big hurdle
26:04 – Building a better mouse trap
28:08 – Dealing with the U.S. banking regulation
31:13 – The Fed Coin – How could it work?
38:11 – The dark side of the Fed Coin
41:36 – How the borrowing process works in banks
44:55 – How would the Fed control credits?
51:56 – Is Holden working with the Australian government?

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02:07 – Introduction to Philipp Carlsson
03:08 – What motivated Carlsson to write his book?
05:13 – A framework for assessing macro risk
09:00 – How do we react to doomsayings?
11:18 – Covid19 – the perfect example of a false alarm
15:15 – The new area of tightness
18:27 – It is all about labour cost
23:46 – The deflationary power of technology
26:46 – The outlook of the labour market
32:22 – Why inflation expectations will stay achored in a world of tightness
39:38 – What happens in a world with an upward bias to inflation?
43:26 – The difference between existential and tactical crises
46:56 – Carlsson's framework for assessing the risk of debt
52:04 – Carlsson's outlook for the economy going forward

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Episode TimeStamps:

02:21 – Introduction to Mark Mills
09:05 – What causes revolutions?
12:27 – How Artificial Intelligence will impact the energy sector
22:02 – Should we be worried about the energy consumption of AI?
29:10 – Are renewables and recycling a viable solution?
37:37 – Putting Mills in the shoes of a mining director
44:13 – The future of battery technology
48:48 – Manufacturing as a service – the new ecommerce?
52:39 – How choke points in manufacturing will challenge the economy
56:16 – Is the economy stronger than we think?

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02:09 – Introduction to Ernest Scheyder
03:11 – Why are lithium and copper so important?
05:44 – The outlook of the U.S lithium production
09:12 – Who is Ioneer and the environmental impact of lithium production
17:26 – What is Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) and why is it important?
23:17 – Supply and demand in lithium
25:02 – The challenges of recycling batteries
31:07 – Is a fully circular economy even possible?
34:14 – The negative consequences of copper mining
39:19 – A part of the people
41:53 – The complexities of tribal relations in the U.S.
43:46 – Is outsourcing copper mining morally irresponsible?
47:25 – The challenges of attracting labour in the mining industry
52:00 – How did Scheyder approach the writing of his book?

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02:05 – Introduction to Charles Duhigg
06:30 – Every conversation is a negotiation
09:21 – It takes two to tango?
11:09 – The importance of listening
13:42 – The magic of understanding each other
15:05 – What is stopping us from having deep connections?
18:40 – How to ask the right questions
23:18 – Advice for having meaningful conversations
28:02 – The business value of deep connections
31:27 – The importance of non-verbal communication
36:28 – How to match the mood of other people
38:48 – The role of identities in communication
42:23 – What does Duhigg means with “identity threat”?
47:48 – How does it apply online?
51:11 – Communication vs. manipulation

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02:16 – Introduction to Koen De Leus and Philippe Gijsels
06:22 – Why haven't we seen higher productivity?
12:11 – What is the chance that productivity could increase?
17:36 – When can we expect productivity to increase?
19:51 – Will AI “steal” our jobs?
24:43 – How you can navigate in the AI trends as an investor
32:17 – Is it even possible for “normal” investors to benefit from AI?
35:26 – Is the energy transition a good investment?
40:51 – A new commodity or metal super cycle?
45:10 – Exploiting the commodity trends
48:12 – Is natural gas a good transition fuel?
52:01 – Why is Philippe so positive on gold?
56:48 – What are their inflation expectations?
01:02:19 – Challenging years ahead?
01:08:00 – Key takeaways from Niels

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02:07 – Introduction to Peter Oppenheimer
04:59 – What do financial cycles derive from?
07:19 – What drives the cycles?
09:31 – A desynchronisation in the cycles
12:15 – Are we entering an optimism phase?
14:39 – Interpreting the signals
17:38 – Does Peter see room for interest rates to rise?
21:59 – What drives the high corporate profits in GDP?
26:54 – Are companies losing their margins?
29:17 – The potential of AI
31:54 – Can high energy consumption ruin the development of AI?
35:48 – Where will the investment in AI come from?
40:00 – Going full cycle
41:37 – The engines of growth
43:43 – Did the central bank response stop markets from becoming volatile?
48:13 – The role of central banks
51:22 – Getting out of a period of high debt

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02:22 – Introduction to Hannah Ritchie
09:17 – How does Hannah describe herself and her work?
10:56 – How has global CO2 emission developed?
16:01 – How is China managing their intermittency problem?
19:10 – How does nuclear play a role for our future?
21:53 – Natural gas – a perfect bridge?
23:35 – Are EVs a viable solution for transportation?
26:55 – Addressing the criticism of EVs
30:31 – Why does a plant based diet have such a big environmental impact?
34:05 – Why organic farming methods and local meat isn't really sustainable
37:59 – Why is Ritchie skeptical about vertical farming?
40:50 – Can plastic be positive for the environment?
43:16 – Managing the plastic waste
47:27 – Importing and export plastic waste
49:38 – How to be an optimal data scientist
56:11 – Key takeaways from Niels