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Peter Zeihan – The Future of Geopolitics - [Invest Like the Best, EP.123]
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Peter is a geopolitical strategist who combines expertise in demography, economics, energy, politics, technology, and security to assess an uncertain future. Before founding his own strategy firm, Peter helped develop the analytical models for Stratfor, one of the world’s premier private intelligence companies.
I came across Peter via his books the Accidental Superpower and the Absent Superpower. We discuss America’s changing place in the world and four additional countries poised to do well in the future. Spoiler alert: he believes the U.S. is particularly well positioned.
While we don’t discuss equity markets per se, all of what we talk about will obviously impact companies across the world for the remainder of our careers. Please enjoy our conversation.
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Show Notes
(First Question) – His model of the world
– What makes for a strategically advantaged country
– History of the Bretton Woods agreement and the order that it created
– The security apparatus that has made globalization of manufacturing possible
– The US’s pullback from being the naval police of global trade
– The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America
– How energy has played into America’s disinterest abroad
– Moving towards global disorder
– Characterizing factors that will impact countries in any collapse
– How this manifest in physical conflict
– How the new world order will end the ease of innovation we are accustomed to today
– What gets the US to reengage before this new world order
– Demographics that make a country prepared for this, Japan as an example
– A look at China
– What the story is about Argentina
– How North America fares based on their geography and relationships
– The trader wars that are currently ongoing
– US political system
– Most important policy issues moving forward
– His view on American infrastructure
– Technologies that interest him the most
– What he is watching most closely in his research, starting with media
– What are and should be the countries of the future
– Kindest thing anyone has done for Peter
– Favorite places he’s been
Learn More
For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.
Sign up for the book club, where you’ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub
Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag
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