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by Demetri Kofinas
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  • Why Younger Generations Are Convinced They Are Falling Behind | Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak

    October 22, 2026 · 1 hr 18 min

    Episode 504 of Hidden Forces is the thirteenth episode in the Hundred Year Pivot podcast series. In it, Demetri Kofinas and co-host Grant Williams speak with Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, global chief economist at Boston Consulting Group and…

  • Are We Verging on Another Escalation in the Middle East? | Ali Vaez

    October 19, 2026 · 47 min

    In Episode 503 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Ali Vaez, deputy program director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Crisis Group and a closely watched analyst of Iran's foreign and nuclear policy, about where the war…

  • Is It Time to Start Buying Bonds? | Jim Bianco

    October 12, 2026 · 55 min

    In Episode 502 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jim Bianco, founder of Bianco Research and Bianco Advisors, about why he has turned bullish on bonds after six years of warning they were overvalued, what the K-shaped economy…

  • How Melting Ice Is Redrawing the Global Order | Rana Foroohar

    October 5, 2026 · 60 min

    In Episode 501 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Rana Foroohar about her book, Sea Change, and her argument that, as polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the Arctic has become the most consequential and least understood…

  • Why the China Threat Is Overblown | Logan Wright

    September 28, 2026 · 56 min

    In Episode 500 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Logan Wright, director of China macro and financial sector research at the Rhodium Group and author of Broken China, about why China's economic troubles are structural rather…

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  • How to Invest for A Hundred Years | Inigo Fraser Jenkins

    September 24, 2026 · 53 min

    In Episode 499 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Inigo Fraser Jenkins, a strategist at AllianceBernstein and author of the research paper "The Hundred Year Portfolio," about how investors should rethinking portfolio…

  • Will AI Really Kill Us All? | Harper Reed & John Borthwick

    September 21, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    In Episode 498 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Harper Reed, entrepreneur and founder of an AI research lab focused on autonomous agents, and John Borthwick, founder and CEO of Betaworks about the real and perceived risks…

  • The Great Financial Reset Has Begun | Marieke Flament & Nicolas Colin

    September 14, 2026 · 54 min

    In Episode 497 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin, co-authors of the Currency of Power newsletter, about why the global financial system may be on the cusp of a structural transformation…

  • Are Rumors of an Imminent Russian Attack Warranted? | Yaroslav Trofimov

    September 7, 2026 · 50 min

    In Episode 496 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Yaroslav Trofimov, Ukrainian-born chief foreign affairs correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and author of Our Enemies Will Vanish, about the Russia-Ukraine war, CIA…

  • Bessent's Wager and Why the World is Calling America's Bluff | Henry Farrell

    August 31, 2026 · 52 min

    In Episode 495 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with political scientist Henry Farrell, co-author of Underground Empire, about how the United States built its empire, why the hidden infrastructure underwriting American hegemony is…

  • The West's Forgotten War and the New Russia | Mark Galeotti

    August 17, 2026 · 56 min

    In Episode 494 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Mark Galeotti — host of In Moscow's Shadows and one of the most informed and provocative voices on modern Russia — about the war in Ukraine, the risk that it spills over into…

  • The Internet Will Die and So Will You | John West

    August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

    In Episode 493 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with computational journalist and author John West about the surprising impermanence of the Internet, the shift from human agency to platform agency, the business models that have…

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Get the edge with Hidden Forces where media entrepreneur and financial analyst Demetri Kofinas gives you access to the people and ideas that matter, so you can build financial security and always stay ahead of the curve.