ET Podcast #13 – Wanting
It's the only question that really matters here in the Age of Nudge: why do we want what we want?
A conversation with Luke Burgis, author of "Wantin…
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ET Podcast #12 – Proof of Plant
I think this is how crypto can change the world. Not as "money" and not as Bitcoin! TM and not as a security and not as this speculative coin versus t…
ET Podcast #11 – A Working Narrative
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
Bitcoin has been subverted by the neutering machine of Wall Street and the regulatory panopticon of the US Treasury Dept.
What remains is a construct…
ET Podcast #9 – Make, Protect, Teach
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. N…
ET Podcast #8 – Leverage and Its Discontents
Three blow-ups in three months: Archegos, Greensill, and Melvin Capital.
What do they have in common? Insane leverage employed to maximize private ga…
ET Podcast #7 – Inflation Investing
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
Very little investing today is buying and selling shares of common stock in individual companies. Instead, we buy and sell what Wall Street calls "pro…
ET Podcast #5 – Gnostic Nationalism
Every political movement has a political philosophy, and for Trumpism and MAGA it's the Dominion theology of the charismatic/Pentecostal church.
Neit…
ET Podcast #4 – Hunger Games
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 St…
ET Podcast #3 – The Ireland Event
In episode #3 of the Epsilon Theory podcast, Rusty and I discuss the spike in Covid cases in Ireland and the risk of seeing a similar "Ireland Event" …
ET Podcast #2 – Personal Finance
A conversation with Brian Portnoy, author of The Geometry of Wealth, about the role of money in shaping a life of meaning. How do we give better advic…
ET Podcast #1 – Is That All There Is?
In this kick-off Epsilon Theory webcast, I'm joined by renowned cryptocurrency miner and trader @notsofast for a wide-ranging conversation on Bitcoin …