This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.com China’s splendid isolation nurtured a particular Chinese self-perception. Chinese elites grew accustomed to the notion that China was unique—not just ‘a great civilization’ among others, but civilization itself. On China, Kissinger, 2011…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.com Oops…looks like I didn’t send out the link to the actual podcast. Sorry about that. Here you go! We know the internet is simultaneously a recent invention, integrated into every niche of our lives, and difficult to understand fully. I like to anchor theoretical …

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.com Summary: * Keep an eye on Serbia. * No US easing. More below: Over the weekend, the hard-right made gains in European Parliamentary voting. Last week, Senator Tuberville (R. Alabama) said Putin “doesn’t want Ukraine.” That extreme rightwing leaders are gaining e…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.com Man has always asked the question: what is it all about? J. Krishnamurti, 1969 Stories are intrinsic to being human, a survival mechanism. Some forms of story—poetry—can be created virtually for free and others—movie making—cost millions of dollars. But just bec…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.com “In spite of all the farmer’s work and worry, he can’t reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.” Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926 The difference between the Soviet Union and the United States is the former repelled people an…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit paulpodolsky.substack.com We hear about sanctions all the time. Biden just put more on China. Do they matter? If so, in what way?J provides a framework to help us all understand. This is J’s second appearance. In our conversation last year, here, you can hear J’s background and how he cr…

Send us a Text Message. David is former CIA and the author of Damascus Station and Moscow X. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get …

Send us a Text Message. Barton is trained as an accountant and equity investor. We all know how much tech is driving the stock market. He sheds light on how to make sense of what is going on. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Suppo…

Send us a Text Message. Jim returns to the show to share his perspective on Ukraine, the border and the November election. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this …

Send us a Text Message. Jason is an accountant, fluent Chinese speaker and Wall Street veteran. I always learn from my talks with Jason and I think you will too. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public …

Send us a Text Message. Ivan is a renowned college sports journalist and the father of three, one of whom took his own life. It's a terrifying story and one we all need to hear. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. T…

Send us a Text Message. Scott Nelson is the Georgia Athletic Association Professor of History at the University of Georgia and an expert in the history of commodities. In this podcast he shares the history of grain and the impact on Ukraine, global commerce and Russia. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. Th…

My conversation with Lyn Alden, author of Broken Money. Twitter: @LynAldenContact Disclaimer: I write and podcast for entertainment purposes only. This is not investment advice.

Send us a Text Message. Page is the Director of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and Harold Brown Professor of US National and Security Policy at Columbia University. She is an expert in how wars begin and end. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Liste…

Send us a Text Message. Remy is a comedian and YouTube star. His father emigrated from Iraq and his mother from Lebanon and some of his humor is Arab-centric. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public epi…

Send us a Text Message. Yasheng is the author of The Rise and Fall of the East, How Exams, Autocracy, Stability and Technology brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. He is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and inv…

Send us a Text Message. Yashca is a professor at Johns Hopkins and founder of the digital magazine Persuasion. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other s…

Send us a Text Message. Bill is the author of several books. His most recent is a joint-effort with renowned doctor Peter Attia on how to increase your odds of not getting heart disease, dementia, diabetes or cancer or, in short, how to live well. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and …

Send us a Text Message. Spencer founded Probable Futures to help us all become climate change literate. Before that he was Director of Investment Research at Wellington Management. He holds a PhD from Harvard. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podc…

Send us a Text Message. Leonid is a drone operator on Ukraine's front lines. This conversation is a bit "salty" so if that's jarring, don't listen. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public episode. If yo…

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Jonny Miller, writer, podcaster, and breathwork facilitator. Jonny wrote some of my favorite recent pieces, including the amazing operating manual for the nervous system and How to Pay Off Your Emotional Debt. Jonny also puts together terrific small wikis like this one on emotional resilience, the ‘spiri…

Send us a Text Message. Faye is the co-founder of Dipsea, which produces "short and sexy" audio stories designed by and targeted to women. She talks about finding her path, erotica and what makes a good story. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podc…

I had a chance to interview William Duggan, professor at Columbia Business School and author of Strategic Intuition. He explained how Kendo led him to his big idea, the difference between creative/strategic intuition and expert intuition (with examples including Howard Schultz, Henry Ford, and Elizabeth Holmes), and the roles of memory, passion, an…

Send us a Text Message. Francisco was born in Venezuela and later watched that country's Democracy implode. He is now a journalist, a contributing editor to Persuasion and an expert on both Latin America and populism. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Ap…

Send us a Text Message. Chris Murphy is a Democratic US Senator representing Connecticut. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc…

Hello everyone, I had the pleasure of chatting with Jared Dillian, author of The Daily Dirtnap and We're Gonna Get Those Bastards, about his new book Those Bastards. Years ago, I read his book Street Freak and I fondly remembered his wit, candor, depth of introspection, and keen eye for the antics of markets. Those Bastards is a collection of Jared…

Send us a Text Message. Dachi is a civil rights activist in Georgian (Tbilisi not the US state) and a key member of the organization Shame. I met him on my trip there and recorded our conversation in Shame's Tbilisi office. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen …

Send us a Text Message. J is an expert in global shipping stocks, which means he understands exactly what went wrong with the supply chain during the pandemic. He is also a person who, in addition to serving in the military, has developed a successful business in financial advice, independent of any financial institution, a fascinating case study. …

Send us a Text Message. Andrew is a senior member of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Russia expert and author of Accidental Czar, the Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin. He served at the National Security Council, State Department and Pentagon. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how trad…

Send us a Text Message. John is a journalist, author and teacher who has carefully documented the US role in abetting Pinochet's rule over Chile in the 1970s. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This is a public epi…

Send us a Text Message. Henry is a former Financial Times reporter and author of Volt Rush, which delves into what metals are required to make the electric car industry work. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This is how traders and investors excel. Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify Support the Show. This…

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Send us a Text Message. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling (retired) has fought and lead troops in multiple wars, trained some of those leading Ukraine's defense, traveled to over 100 countries, and provides commentary to CNN. He is also a husband, father and grandfather. He has given a lot of thought to what it means to be a good leader. Talking Trading - Exp…

My conversation with Paul Podolsky author of Master, Minion and the Things I Didn’t Learn in School Substack.

Send us a Text Message. George is an expert in public relations, West Virginia and facing a tough disease, Parkinson's. In this conversation, he shares his perspectives on all three and what "be here now" means in practice. This episode was produced by Dave Manahan. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the sharemarket. This …

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Send us a Text Message. Vitaliy is a money manager and the author of three books including Soul in the Game. He was born in the Soviet Union and emigrated to the US. He suggests we look at both what makes a good investment and also how to properly account for the cost of pursuing wealth. This episode was produced by Dave Manahan. Support the Show. …

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Send us a Text Message. Peter founded Transparency International in 1993 and it has since grown to have over 100 chapters around the world. Leaders such as former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan have lauded TI's work. Peter, a lawyer and former World Bank official, founded the organization as a way to track and quantify a global force that most peo…

Send us a Text Message. Eleena began dancing as a child and rose to become a member of the Corps de Ballet at the American Ballet Theater. She takes us inside that remarkable life. What does it require to pull off those jumps and create that grace and magic? Her story is about grit, art and also knowing when to stop. This episode was produced by Da…

My conversation with Adam Mead, author of The Complete Financial History of Berkshire Hathaway.

Send us a Text Message. Dmitry has written 85 books including novels, poetry and biography, and published too many articles to count. In 2019, Bykov survived an apparent assassination attempt using a nerve agent and the Russian state now lists him as a "foreign agent," which means he says things they don't like to hear. In our conversation he discu…

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Send us a Text Message. Leopold and Victor are father and son. Leopold emigrated from Grenada, drove a bus in New York City for almost 30 years to support three children, one of whom is Victor, who is now finishing medical school. The two talk about their relationship, racism and changing stations. Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you ca…

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