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Breaking News #4: From Ross Perot to RFK Jr – The Evolving Narratives of Political Entrepreneurs

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the tactics and tools used by upstart political entrepreneurs. Our political system is setup to heavily favo…
Harper Hunt September 14, 2023
16 Comments

Inflation in the Twenty-First Century: A Circular Flow No Longer

The flow of dollars between the US and China is no longer circular, and that has enormous implications for how the US finances its budget deficits. N…
Kevin Coldiron September 12, 2023
15 Comments

Cursed Knowledge #19: The Snappiest Place on Earth

We live in a very safe world. And we've worked hard to make it safe. But sometimes we take that safety for granted. And sometimes we think that safety…
Harper Hunt September 7, 2023
2 Comments

The Time I Got A High School Paper Extension In A Bar: The Fourth Turning (But Not In The Way You Think)

Wanna guess what book both Steve Bannon and Al Gore handed out to members of Congress? ET contributor Matt Zeigler knows it was "The Fourth Turning",…
Matt Zeigler September 6, 2023
22 Comments

Inflation in the Twenty-First Century: Unintended Consequences

"My house in California sits within a short walk of the Hayward fault. Most of the time nothing happens, but occasionally we are jolted awake by an ea…
Kevin Coldiron September 1, 2023
22 Comments

Breaking News #3: ESG, Vivek Ramaswamy and The Influence of Political Entrepreneurs

Political entrepreneurs are all around us. They influence what we think. They influence how we think. But we often don't recognize it. In this episode…
Harper Hunt August 31, 2023
8 Comments

Cursed Knowledge #18: The Bone Wars

The Bone Wars. A decade long battle of ego between two dueling paleontologists. It's a tale of obsession, sabotage, and academic backstabbing. This cl…
Harper Hunt August 24, 2023
5 Comments

Breaking News #2: The Drumbeat of Inflation

The recession-is-coming narrative is dead and the inflation-is-over narrative is dominant, making the Fed's job that much harder and making resurgent …
Harper Hunt August 17, 2023
16 Comments

Cursed Knowledge #17: Frances Ethel Gumm and the Wizard of Oz

Harper and Ben finally get a chance to talk about the Wizard of Oz and the not so wonderful behind the scenes production. Of course this was par for t…
Harper Hunt August 10, 2023
1 Comment

How To Live Forever: The Future Is Shaped By The Art We Make

A beautiful note by musician/composer Scott Bradlee, of Postmodern Jukebox fame, on the permanence and power of art. Mythology IS the song. What wil…
Scott Bradlee August 8, 2023
10 Comments

Breaking News #1: The Water In Which We Swim

In our kick-off episode, Ben, Matt and Jack talk about why we're here - to break open the news reported by mainstream media to reveal the nudging lang…
Harper Hunt August 3, 2023
0 Comments

The Economic Perception Model

Recession - like beauty - is in the eye of the beholder. Unlike beauty, though, our economic perceptions are far more likely to fall into the self-imp…
Kyla Scanlon August 2, 2023
9 Comments

Hagakure: The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai

This is the Way. Not just for the samurai but for the trader.
Brent Donnelly July 28, 2023
5 Comments

Cursed Knowledge #16: Women in Refrigerators

A revamped Cursed Knowledge is back! In this brand new episode, Ben joins Harper in the studio to talk about the all too common trope of killing off f…
Harper Hunt July 27, 2023
3 Comments

Root, Root, Root For Our Home Team

"I can't find Dad." In which a stressed-out family makes an active choice to look past the totems of Team Red and Team Blue to find the truth of thei…
Matt Zeigler July 11, 2023
8 Comments

Fostering Reality in an Unreal World

ET contributor Brent Donnelly captures the spirit and the content of our Epsilon Connect conference better than anything we could have done ourselves.…
Brent Donnelly July 5, 2023
1 Comment

Derivative Hoops

A synthetic basketball lasted only one year (2007-2008) in the NBA. But Synthetic Basketball? Oh, that's here to stay.
Hubie Brownstone June 20, 2023
4 Comments

When The Best Conference Speaker Is Your Uber Driver (Epsilon Connect 2023 Notes)

The best speaker at Epsilon Connect 2023 was my Uber driver. Buckle up, honeys.
Matt Zeigler June 15, 2023
15 Comments

Trading is a lot like Poker

With the passing of Doyle Brunson, it's a good day to compare poker to trading.
Brent Donnelly May 16, 2023
1 Comment

Dedollarization is Not a Thing

People like to throw around the phrase “gradually, then suddenly” as a witty rejoinder to suggest a dedollarization of the world is a nonlinear pr…
Brent Donnelly March 31, 2023
37 Comments
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