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Demetri Kofinas
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I get you access to the people and ideas that matter, so you can build financial security and always stay ahead of the curve | Host of
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New York Cityhiddenforces.ioJoined February 2009
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Demetri Kofinas
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People need to stop making the, “but Jim Baker promised” argument. NATO is an international treaty organization and the US is a republic. Gorbachev was never under the impression that the US Secretary of State of a one-term president is in any position to grant such a guarantee.
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David Vance
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In 1990, Gorbachev was assured that after the break up of the Soviet Union, NATO would not expand East. Look what happened…
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I wonder how this alters Twitter user behavior, knowing that generating more replies on their threads earns them more money. This is not in line with creating a more vibrant marketplace of ideas.
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Elon Musk
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Starting today, Twitter will share ad revenue with creators for ads that appear in their reply threads
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@eshow1969
If you listen to one
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this year….make it this one (but also recalibrate your priorities 😉).
@ChinaBeigeBook
is THE authority on China data. I have been following them, and Leland, for a very long time. This 👇is worth the time.
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COO of @ChinaBeigeBook @shehzadhqazi joins me to discuss the macro implications of China's reopening on global growth & inflation. We also consider the effects of rising geopolitical tensions on trade, the impact of semiconductor export controls, & more. hiddenforces.io/podcasts/effec
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"The feeling of the era, and what that feeling supposedly signified, isolates the 1990s from both its distant past and its immediate future. It was a period of ambivalence, defined by an overwhelming assumption that life, and particularly American life, was underwhelming."
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I recently finished Chuck Klosterman's "The Nineties" ahead of a conversation I'm recording with him this week. I'd love to hear from anyone who's read the book, has fond memories of the decade, or has thoughts about its cultural significance and how it differs from today.
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Ellen Nakashima
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NEW: U.S. military poised to secure new access to key Philippine bases on heels of a significant revamp of U.S. force posture in Japan. Allies are concerned about rising threats in the region. By
@rebtanhs
and me.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. military poised to secure new access to key Philippine bases
The expansion is part of a broader push in the Indo-Pacific to buttress U.S. force posture, reinforce alliances and deter China.
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Demetri Kofinas
@kofinas
I recently finished Chuck Klosterman's "The Nineties" ahead of a conversation I'm recording with him this week. I'd love to hear from anyone who's read the book, has fond memories of the decade, or has thoughts about its cultural significance and how it differs from today.
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COO of
@ChinaBeigeBook
@shehzadhqazi
joins me to discuss the macro implications of China's reopening on global growth & inflation. We also consider the effects of rising geopolitical tensions on trade, the impact of semiconductor export controls, & more.
hiddenforces.io
What Effect Will China’s Reopening Have on Global Growth & Inflation?
Shehzad Qazi discusses the effect of China's reopening on global growth and inflation, as well as the impact of geopolitical tensions and export controls on China’s economy.
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Gabriel Limma
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This conversation between
@kofinas
and Prof Joshua Landis is one of the most insightful we can hear about geopolitics and what are the developments from the American Proxy-War against Russia in Ukraine, as well as the war in Syria.
hiddenforces.io
The War In Syria & the New Geopolitics of the Greater Middle East
Joshua Landis explains why we may be on the verge of a reset in Turkey-Syria relations, what this means for the US and Europe, and how the balance of power is shifting in the Greater Middle East.
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Demetri Kofinas
@kofinas
... ineptness of its leaders, the corruption of its press, and by a feeling of growing confusion, hopelessness, and cynicism in its people." — William Shirer, The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940
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... enlightened. In the ensuing years, I watched with increasing apprehension the Third Republic go downhill, its strength gradually sapped by dissension and division by incomprehensible blindness in foreign, domestic, and military policy, by the ...
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More reflections on the comparisons of 1930s French society to America in the 2020s: "I loved and worked in France for a good many years, beginning in 1925 when the country was not only the greatest power on the continent of Europe but, to me at least, the most civilized and ...
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Raymond Aron reflecting upon the conditions of France in the decade before its collapse and subsequent collaboration with the Third Reich: "In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another." Sounds rather familiar.
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Matt Ridley
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"The risk of a laboratory-associated pathway leading to the pandemic – the lab leak theory – has been significantly under-played despite growing circumstantial evidence...Some internal UNEP reviewers seemed reluctant to permit such discussion at all."
dailymail.co.uk
There has been suppression of the truth over origin of covid in China
Public health officials in Beijing have tentatively increased their official death toll from this ghastly pandemic after the gap between their claimed figures and reality risked public ridicule
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@kofinas
Raymond Aron reflecting upon the conditions of France in the decade before its collapse and subsequent collaboration with the Third Reich: "In essence, France no longer existed. It existed only in the hatred of the French for one another." Sounds rather familiar.
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@kofinas
Any good recommendations for someone trying to order a Blue Yeti microphone to be delivered to an address in London?
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@kofinas
Incredible.
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Project Veritas
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BREAKING: @Pfizer Exploring "Mutating" COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines "Don't tell anyone this...There is a risk...have to be very controlled to make sure this virus you mutate doesn't create something...the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest." #DirectedEvolution
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I've read many non-academic books on neuroscience and several on the philosophy of mind, some of which were mentioned in the replies. Only one person mentioned the name of the book/author that will be coming on HF. I'm very excited about this episode.
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What is your favorite book on the psychology/philosophy of neuroscience and/or the brain?
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Are we entering a new economic paradigm where sovereign debt levels become unmanageable, multilateral cooperation breaks down, and state power grows at the expense of capital and labor?
@B_Eichengreen
joins me on this
@HiddenForcesPod
to discuss.
hiddenforces.io
What Comes After Secular Stagnation? | Barry Eichengreen
Are we entering a new economic paradigm where sovereign debt levels become unmanageable, multilateral cooperation breaks down, and state power grows at the expense of capital and labor?
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