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#634: Niall Ferguson, Historian — The Coming Cold War II, Visible and Invisible Geopolitics, Why Even Atheists Should Study Religion, Masters of Paradox, Fatherhood, Fear, and More

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Insights from a Wall Street Analyst on Predicting Global Events

The speaker accurately predicted a global pandemic in January 2020/nThere is a predicted inflation mess at the beginning of 2021/nThere is an 80% probability of Russia invading Ukraine at the beginning of this year/nThe speaker talks to policy makers and shares their thoughts with them/nThe speaker finds their work intellectually rigorous and emphasizes the consequences of being wrong in their field/nThe speaker is privileged to be paid to think and read, which is not a luxury afforded to those in government who are constantly in meetings and calls

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