The Judgment Call Podcast

Maciej Wojtal is the founder and CIO of Amtelon Capital which is focused on investing in Iranian equities. Maciej has worked with Citigroup and JP Morgan before running his own fund. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for free! Divvy – get business credit without a personal guarantee...

Jared Dillian is the author of Street Freak: Money and Madness at Lehman Brothers, named one of the top business books of 2011 by Businessweek magazine. Jared runs The Daily Dirtnap, LLC, which provides daily market commentary and insight to a range of institutional clients. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book...

Stephen Clapham is a retired hedge fund partner who now trains stock analysts at some of the world's largest and most successful institutional investors. Stephen is also the author of The Smart Money Method: How to pick stocks like a hedge fund pro and hosts his own podcast. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book...

market bubble in passive investing/ index investing Mike Green has been a student of markets and market structure for nearly 30 years. Mike works with Simplify to create ETF products that give retail investors an edge. Before that Mike has worked with Logica Capital Advisers and Thiel Macro. You may watch this episode on Youtube - #100 Mike Green (The gravitational force of passive investing on capital allocation and geopolitics). Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back...

Thaddeus Kozinski is a professor of theology and philosophy at the Divine Mercy University. He is the author of Modernity as Apocalypse: Sacred Nihilism and the Counterfeits of Logos and The Political Problem of Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Can't Solve It. You may watch this episode on Youtube - Thaddeus 'the Catholic' (Pluralism, Liberalism, Postmodernism, Idolatry, World Government). Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10...

You may watch this episode on Youtube - Max Wiethe (The state of financial industry and financial journalism). Max Wiethe is an editor and journalist at Real Vision where Max hosts a weekly series of interviews with financial industry heavyweights. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up...

correct idea You may watch this episode on Youtube - Julio Maria Muhorro (Tales of Entrepreneurship in Africa). Julio Maria Muhorro is an entrepreneur and business coach based in Mozambique and South Africa. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for free! Divvy – get business credit...

enormous (and prophetic) body of written workpostmodernismNetocratssensocracyworld governmentcharter citiesmarketing as a whole evilattentionalismabolish advertisingproductivity growthmany parallel truthsmultiverse theory You may watch this episode on Youtube - #96 Alexander Bard (The philosophy of everything). Alexander Bard is a musician, author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, political activist and philosopher. Alexander is co-author of a number of books incl. Syntheism -...

Options Insight You may watch this episode on Youtube - #95 Imran Lakha (How to use option strategies to improve your market edge). Imran Lakha has been working with Citibank, Bank of America and Credit Suisse trading options. He now teaches options strategies at Options Insight. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class...

faster than light speed travelFaster Than Light Speed You may watch this episode on Youtube - #94 Erik Lentz (How to build an actual warp drive). Apologies for the sound quality during the first few minutes - it gets much better after the initial five minutes! Erik Lentz is a Ph.D. physicist and focuses on the theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects of searching for dark matter as well as faster than light travel. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your...

Hedge Fund Telemetry You may watch this episode on Youtube - #93 Thomas Thornton (The past, present and future of Hedge Funds). Thomas Thornton is a former portfolio manager, senior trader, and technical analyst with Level Global Investors and Galileo Capital. Thomas is writing a daily investment newsletter at Hedge Fund Telemetry. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel...

aigo.ai You may watch this episode on Youtube - # 92 Peter Voss (How and when will we build really intelligent machines?). Peter Voss is a serial entrepreneur and currently runs aigo.ai. The company implements a 'Third Wave of AI' with deep understanding of natural language, have short- and long-term memory, learn interactively, use context, and are able to reason and hold meaningful ongoing conversations. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less...

Simplify You may watch this episode on Youtube - #91 Harley Bassman (How to become a Convexity Maven?). Harley Bassman looks back at a checkered career of 35+ years at Wall Street and also runs Convexity Maven. Harley currently works with Simplify. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for...

00:00:23 How Esther got started working on the intersection between mind and body and healthy living? 00:13:32 What impact Ether’s research has on the ability to improve living conditions with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Are we getting to few germs and viruses so that our immune system turns on ourselves? 00:21:11 How stress and our environment impacts our body and mind and how we can model it. 00:28:01 How do we identify environments that makes us calm? Why is a view of nature...

00:00:34 What drove Bill to start minds.com back in 2011? Why minds.com is fundamentally different than other social networks? 00:07:31 Why did the ‘legacy’ social networks get so big? 00:11:22 Is there a better engagement algorithm? How ‘manipulative’ is the current engagement algorithm? 00:14:20 Why social networks all have such a similar business model and why they all struggle to keep you on the site (through emotional manipulation). 00:18:15 Are conservative media outlets really at an...

The WEIRDest People in the World You may watch this episode on Youtube - Joe Henrich (WEIRD people and what drives a culture's success?). Joe Henrich is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University (and formerly a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia). He is particularly interested in the question of how humans evolved from "being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe",...

You may watch this episode on Youtube - Jeff Barr (The amazing story of Amazon Web Services). Jeff Barr is the Chief Evangelist for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has been its chief promoter since 2004. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for free! Divvy – get business credit without a...

Marc Faber is the publisher of the GLOOM BOOM & DOOM report and is a world famous investor known for his 'contrarian' investment approach. You may watch this episode on Youtube - #86 Marc Faber (Gloom Boom & Doom). Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for free! Divvy – get business...

00:00:35 How Matthew got started in the video game industry? 00:03:58 How the video game industry has evolved since Matthew started? 00:15:43 How video game studios elect plans for a new game? 00:21:06 How much revenue is there in video games really? Is the demographics of users changing? 00:30:23 Given the addictive potential of video games – should we emphasize the skills users learn from video games more? 00:53:49 Will we live in an ‘all simulated’ world? Is that a good or bad thing?...

Thomas Power is a serial entrepreneur and independent Board Director based in the United Kingdom. You may watch this episode on Youtube - #84 Thomas Power (The Power of Social Networks). Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for free! Divvy – get business credit without a personal...