Ep. 556: R.P. Eddy Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is R.P. Eddy, an American businessman, venture investor, former U.S. government official and former U.N. diplomat. He is currently the CEO of Ergo, a strategy and geo political intelligence firm. R.P. is also co-author of “Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.” R.P. profiled in depth Cassandras ranging from: Fukushima, Katrina, Madoff, 2008 collapse, the rise of Isis, and the invasion of Kuwait.
The topic is his book Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Indicators and warning
- Analysis and foresight
- Pax Americana
- Fukushima
- Corruption vs. competence
- Bernie Madoff
- Black Swans
- 2008 collapse
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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.1 | My guest today, R.P. Eddie, American businessman, venture investor, former U.S. government official, |
| 0:39.3 | and former U.N. diplomat. Currently, CEO of Ergo, a strategy and geopolitical intelligence firm, |
| 0:47.4 | and along with his co-author Richard Clark, their new book, Warnings, Finding Cassandra's |
| 0:55.1 | to stop catastrophes. |
| 0:58.1 | Look, the world's dicey place these days, |
| 1:00.7 | but there are some people that have insights |
| 1:03.0 | about the future bad happenings. |
| 1:07.5 | Great insights from R.P. Eddy. |
| 1:09.8 | I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:19.9 | So, RP, back in the early 1990s, something happened that really affects all of us to this day. And there was a guy, a guy, I believe he was |
| 1:30.8 | at the CIA. And he could tell, looking at satellite imagery, he could tell that Saddam Hussein |
| 1:38.0 | was about to go into Kuwait. Now, there's ways, and look, I'm a novice here, but that when it |
| 1:43.8 | comes to intelligence, when it comes to military, and I'm, look, I'm a novice here, but that when it comes to intelligence, |
| 1:44.9 | when it comes to military, and knowing how things unfold, there are a lot of experienced |
| 1:51.1 | people on this planet, or maybe there's not a lot, but there are some very experienced folks |
| 1:55.2 | that know exactly what's going on when they see certain things line up. |
| 2:00.2 | And there was an individual back in the day that |
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