Grant Williams | Quantum Uncertainty and Spooky Correlations at the Zero-Bound

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 59 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Grant Williams about the crisis brewing in emerging markets, the collapse in cryptocurrencies, and the palace intrigues of Elon Musk. All of these phenomena exhibit the common feature of "quantum weirdness at the zero-bound," where the laws of classical economics break down, space-time preferences collapse, and quantum entanglements lead to spooky correlations that threaten the very fabric upon which markets are made and prices discovered.

Grant Williams is perhaps known best for industry leading, long-form conversations with some of the most brilliant fund managers, short sellers, and financiers from around the world. He is also the founder and editor of the popular financial newsletter, "Things that Make you go Hmmm," as well as a co-founder of Real Vision. Grant began his career working in the City of London in 1985, joining the trading desk of John Galvanoni at Fleming & Company. Not long after, Grant moved to Tokyo, where he was busy trading the Nikkei from 1986 until its epic collapse in 1989. A financial journeyman, Grant has never ceased to travel, moving from one city to the next for the last thirty-five years. In 2013, Grant Williams and Raoul Pal came together to set the seeds for Realvision, a subscription media company that aims to become the Netflix of financial media.

This is an episode full of laughter, history, and creative wisdom. It's a conversation you will not want to miss.

Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas

Editor & Engineer: Stylianos Nicolaou

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0:27.0	And with that, please enjoy this week's episode.
0:30.0	What's up everybody? I'm Demetric of Phoenix and you're listening to Hidden Forces
0:36.7	where each week I speak with experts in the fields of technology, science, finance, and culture to help you gain the tools to better navigate
0:46.2	an increasingly complex world so that you're less surprised by tomorrow and better able
0:51.8	to predict what happens next.
0:54.0	My guest this week is Grant Williams who may hold the Guinness Book of World Records
1:00.0	for longest interviews with macro fund managers, short sellers, and other iconoc
1:05.8	classes of the financial persuasion. He is also the founder and editor of the popular
1:11.1	financial newsletter Things That Make You Go Hmm, as well as a co-founder
1:16.0	of Real Vision, a subscription level financial media company focused on bringing real conversations
1:22.3	about markets and the economy to people from Beijing to Baltimore.
1:27.0	I've known Grant for a good while now, so I couldn't help but reminisce with him a bit about some of our earlier experiences in financial media.
1:36.0	We discuss how the media landscape has changed, including the role of social media,
1:41.0	before delving into a series of topics ranging from the crisis
1:45.3	brewing in emerging markets the plight of cryptocuracies and the palace
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