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Jul 2022
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Ep. 1092: Ben Hunt Interview with Michae...

MICHAEL COVEL
About this episode

My guest today is Ben Hunt. Ben spent a decade in academia as a Political Science professor at New York University before starting a couple of his own software companies, which he later sold. Ben then decided to conquer financial markets, serving as the Chief Risk Officer and Chief Investment Strategist for Salient, one of the country's top asset management boutiques. Today, Ben is the co-founder and writer for Epsilon Theory, a website, and newsletter that examines markets through the lenses of game theory, history, philosophy, and sociology. 

The topic is his article The MacGuffin Part 1.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • The MacGuffin
  • Terra Luna's crash and its effects on the crypto world
  • Securitization of Bitcoin on Wall Street
  • His perspective on the current financial world
  • Using trend following strategies
  • How the FED controls inflation and business cycles

Jump in!

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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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