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com forward slash free. What does Vlatimer Putin want to do in Ukraine or in Syria or in the Baltics? I don't know.

Thus you want to recreate the Soviet Union? I would if I ran Russia. I mean who knows?

Just like a school yard with bullies is a very peaceful school yard if there's a one big bully. Now normatively morally we may not like it, but hey, he or she, they impose order.

This week on Adventures in Finance, Geopolitics takes center stage in our commentary feature.

Yeah, this week I revisit a conversation I hope with Marco Pepich, the chief geopolitical strategist at BCA research in

Montreal last year. Populism in Europe is mutating and it's mutating into a

form that I as an investor don't really care about. As an investor the only only thing I care about, given that I don't

invest in the euros, is are these guys going to take their countries out of the euro area

or not? Bringing fresh insight to this timeless interview, is co-founder of Real Vision Raoul Pal.

Is the role of government to drive GDP growth or is it to look after the population

and maybe sacrifice GDP growth?

And my co-host and co-founder of Real Vision, Grant Williams.

What's happening here, if these Central Banks are actually being taken places

rather than going to where they want to go,

people really have to look at this through a whole new framework.

Also on this week's show we have our long short segment where Grant and I go through the good and not so good stories of the week.

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