Kiril Sokoloff: "What's the Most Important Question in Today's World?"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
4.8 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we meet with legendary financial icon Kiril Sokoloff to take a bird's eye view of the global energy/financial situation.
Why is the financial community so complacent about peak oil and the relationship between increasing energy scale and growth? Can we make predictions about the future by looking back at history?
Kiril shares his professional experiences with scenario planning, disruption, and investing as well as his passion for history and the practice of Buddhism to influence and inform decision making and life.
About Kiril Sokoloff:
Kiril is an investor, a researcher, and long-time editor of the highly respected weekly publication "13D – What I Learned this Week". For 50 years he has predicted major inflection points in energy and commodity prices correctly including 1980, 2002, and 2008 and recently stated sanctions on Russia will result in economic suicide for Europe.
Kiril is active in philanthropy in areas of healthcare, education, and the scaling of human consciousness.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Great Simplification with Nate Higgins. |
| 0:06.0 | That's me. |
| 0:07.8 | On this show, we try to explore and simplify what's happening with energy, the economy, |
| 0:14.3 | the environment, and our society. |
| 0:17.6 | Together with scientists, experts, and leaders, this show is about understanding the bird's-eye |
| 0:23.2 | view of how everything fits together, where we go from here and what we can do about it |
| 0:28.7 | as a society and as individuals. |
| 0:32.8 | Over 20 years ago, I left Wall Street in order to take a deep dive into understanding energy, |
| 0:40.3 | ecology, and macro-human and planetary systems. |
| 0:44.4 | As was the case then and now, the financial community was energy blind. |
| 0:50.1 | Sure, investors know that oil and gas and electricity are very important, but they rarely |
| 0:55.8 | recognize that the entire arena of financial markers is fully dependent on inexpensive |
| 1:02.8 | and growing energy supplies. |
| 1:05.4 | This is not a financial podcast, yet finance, since I've been alive at least, is both driving and steering |
| 1:14.3 | our cultural car, which happens to be built and powered by non-renewable energy and materials. |
| 1:20.7 | With me today, to take a bird's eye view of the global energy financial situation is |
| 1:26.8 | legendary financial icon Kirl Sokoloff. |
| 1:30.6 | Kierl is an investor, a researcher, and a longtime editor of the highly respected publication |
| 1:36.0 | 13D, what I learned this week. |
| 1:39.4 | For 50 years, he has predicted major inflection points in energy and commodity prices correctly, |
| 1:46.2 | including 1980, 2002, and 2008, and recently stating that sanctions on Russia will result |
| 1:53.7 | in economic suicide for Europe. |
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