What's up, everybody? My name is Demetri Kofinas, and you're listening to Hidden Forces, a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens to challenge consensus narratives and learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
Where you're about to hear is the third episode in a podcast series hosted by me and my co-host, Grant Williams, titled The 100-Year Pivot. In it, we speak with some of the smartest and most plugged-in people we know to help position ourselves, our organizations, our families, and our portfolios for the once-in-a-century economic, political, and geopolitical reordering that we believe is currently underway.
In today's conversation, Grant and I speak with economic historian, author of the Solid Ground newsletter, and keeper of the Library of Mistakes, Russell Napier, about the end of the economic, monetary, and global trading and security order that has been the biggest driver of global growth for the last 30 years. The consequences of the changes we discuss for economic and national security, social cohesion, investment, and wealth preservation are nothing short of tectonic.
Among other things, we discussed the Trump administration's economic and trade strategy, efforts to isolate China, the creation of new monetary systems and the search for new safe assets, the realignment of global power, the escalating risk of war with China, and how investors can seek to anticipate and position themselves for the accelerating repatriation of capital flows, the onset of capital controls, and a prolonged, potentially multi-decade period of financial repression
where wealth preservation will take precedence over making money and chasing outsized financial returns. If you want early access to this conversation, go to hiddenforces.io slash subscribe and join our premium feed so you can listen to this episode and other subscriber-only content on your mobile device using your favorite podcast app, just like you're listening to this episode right now.
And with that, please enjoy this incredibly timely and important conversation with our guest, Russell Napier.