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The Epsilon Theory Podcast

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Latest Episodes

Cursed Knowledge #2: Weinstein and the Oscars

July 5, 2021

Harvey Weinstein is a terrible person who did terrible things. But he doesn’t get nearly enough credit, or more accurately blame, for his role in destroying the integrity of the Academy Awards and fundamentally altering how Hollywood makes movies.

Cursed Knowledge #1: The Fast Saga

June 21, 2021

The Fast and Furious movies are famous for intense action and ridiculous plots. But the truth about how these stories get made has more to do with the drama happening behind the camera than in front of it.

ET Podcast #11 – A Working Narrative

June 16, 2021

We write a LOT about work. And the responses we get are … weird.

Once again, the most important narratives are the ones we tell ourselves.

ET Podcast #10 – In Praise of Bitcoin

May 5, 2021

Bitcoin has been subverted by the neutering machine of Wall Street and the regulatory panopticon of the US Treasury Dept.

What remains is a constructed narrative that exists in service to Wall Street and Washington rather than in resistance.

ET Podcast #9 – Make, Protect, Teach

April 22, 2021

How do we change the world? Not through corporations and political parties from the top-down, but through free-thinking citizens from the bottom-up. Not as an alienated flock, but as a cooperative pack. Not with abstractions and transactions, but with making, protecting and teaching.

Let’s gooooooo!

ET Podcast #8 – Leverage and Its Discontents

April 2, 2021

Three blow-ups in three months: Archegos, Greensill, and Melvin Capital.

What do they have in common? Insane leverage employed to maximize private gain while socializing potential losses.

ET Podcast #7 – Inflation Investing

March 11, 2021

We’re going to Pack-source a slate of investment strategies for an inflationary world. Here are five tentpoles to organize and support that effort.

ET Podcast #6 – The Business of Wall Street

February 25, 2021

Very little investing today is buying and selling shares of common stock in individual companies. Instead, we buy and sell what Wall Street calls “products” – mutual funds, ETFs, options, REITs, SPACs, etc.

Dave Nadig, who literally wrote the book on ETFs, helps us understand the history and future of the business of Wall Street.

ET Podcast #5 – Gnostic Nationalism

February 16, 2021

Every political movement has a political philosophy, and for Trumpism and MAGA it’s the Dominion theology of the charismatic/Pentecostal church.

Neither the rise of Donald Trump nor the attack on our Capitol can be understood without an examination of this faith and its constructed political narratives.

Believe it or not.

ET Podcast #4 – Hunger Games

February 5, 2021

What’s happening with Reddit and Gamestop and Robinhood is a revolution, but not the revolution you think.

This isn’t a “democratization” of Wall Street. You were played. Again.

It’s a revolution in Common Knowledge. And that changes everything. Again.