James Robinson is winning the Nobel Prize for Economics this year alongside his co-author Daron Acemoglu and fellow economist, Simon Johnson. This is obviously extremely exciting for him, but as well selfishly, rather exciting for me… because in episode 24, James Robinson was one of the first people I ever interviewed for this podcast. James co-wro…

Jack Weatherford returns to the pod which marks a pretty sentimental moment for me (links are at the bottom of this email, before the transcript snippet). Jack’s first appearance was #19 of the podcast. To this day, it’s my favourite podcast I’ve ever recorded. These are links to the first appearance. Jack Weatherford #19 on Spotify Jack Weatherfor…

Nat Eliason is an absolute legend. I’ve been subscribed to his newsletter, following his tweets, and listening to his interviews for what feels like years now. He’s a prolific online writer who recently published his debut book, a memoir of a crypto side quest he spiralled deep down into which is serves as revelatory for the sheer insanity that is …

Levison Wood is an author, journalist, tv star, photographer, film producer, script writer, fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and as well to top it all off… former Officer in the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. If you’ve never heard of Levison Wood, he’s written books that have taken us all across the world. He was propelled into fame with …

David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - Apple David De Jong First Appearance On The Pod - Nazi Billionaires, #127 - Spotify David De Jong is a Dutch historian and investigative journalist. Early in his career, he found himself in New York reporting for Bloomberg on hidden fortunes and the power of family offices all ac…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella and in this podcast we discuss the various outcomes and implications of the 2024 US election contra Trump & Harris. The End Of The American Empire…

Stephanie Baker is a journalist whose been writing between the intersection of business and politics for almost 30 years with Bloomberg. Stephanie's just published her first book and it is just amazing and the consequence of covering these topics for a lifetime. The network, the knowledge, the weird language of sanctions of financial opacity. It’s …

Opus Dei are a predatory catholic cult that started in Spain in the early 20th century and grew and grew over the years into a global organisation that set out with the singular vision to re-christianise the entire world. Gareth Gore stumbled into this story when researching and writing the collapse of one of Spains largest financial institutions, …

Youtube - https://youtu.be/iCNiZfMASNs Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter ---- Johan Norberg is a prolific author and academic, he’s one of the most notable members of the Cato Institute and as well someone who has recently bronzed in the blinding spotlight of both Javier Milei and Elon Musk. Johan is a staunch defender of globalisation …

Subscribe To The Curious Worldview Newsletter Curious Things Mentioned During The Episode Offshore Finance Starter Pack 'Curious Worldview Podcast' Episodes Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg ---- Just how cancerous and pernicious to culture, politics and a globalised world is offshore finance and financial opacity? Few if any people in the world …

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... I am stoked to welcome back one of the most out there and interesting writers, thinkers and speakers, Rory Sutherland. He founded the behavioural science team at the Ogilvy group, he is one of Europe’s most powerful advertising executives and author many many books and…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Other episode of the podcast that suit this episode... Brian Klaas – Fluke & Randomness Russ Roberts – EconTalk Luca Dellanna – Ergodicity All The Way Down Scott Patterson – Chaos Kings Nassim Taleb & Incerto Podcast Follow me on Instagram – @ryanfhogg Everything Is Pr…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Jon Lee Anderson Charlie Walker Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Why We Travel - Ash Bhardwaj Ash Bhardwaj is an author, journalist, film-maker and former british army who amongst his many expeditions has ventured the likes of journeying 8500km along the Russian Eur…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Bill Browder Nassim Taleb Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg This is an interview with Victor Haghani who is among many other things… the Co-Founder of LTCM (long term capital management), the Founder of Elm Wealth and the author of Missing Billionaires. In this inter…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Russ Roberts – Taleb & Hitchens Scott Patterson – Taleb & Chaos Kings Magnus Ranstorp – Terrorism & Political Violence James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Samo Burja founded Bismarck Analysis, of which Bismarck Brief has spun off, whic…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - the ultimate compliment to the podcast... Jos Benschop – SVP Science ASML - Episode #56 Chris Miller – Chip War - Episode #81 ASML Bloody Good Business Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on youtube - https://youtu.be/Kxmf6P-JHa8 ASML is certainly among the most critical businesses to the modern economy.…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/Kx8N66hK8kI Sam Leith is the literary editor for the oldest surviving weekly magazine in the world, an organisation which started publication in 1828 which means… the magazine for which he is th…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://youtu.be/ZzsFPOUzlHg Micheal Hilliard is a geopolitical analyst host and creator of 'The Red Line Podcast'… and! a fellow Aussie coming to us today from Australia’s glorious West coast capital, Perth. Mi…

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✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe Follow me on Instagram - @ryanfhogg Watch on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@curiousworldview/videos https://atlasgeographica.com/ernest-scheyder/ #170 - Ernest Scheyder runs directly towards the impossible trade-offs of mining in the ‘War Below’... The electrifi…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter - https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/jon-lee-anderson/ #169 - I once responded to a question in a grant application that the people I admired most were great adventurers, great writers and great journalists… the kicker naturally being, that the best was a combination of a…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/patrick-watts/ #168 - The following is with Patrick Watts who is one hell of an interesting fella, this was a really fun episode to record! The podcast is about the themes from his debut book, The End Of The American Empire. The End Of T…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/bill-browder-russia/ #167 - Bill Browder is back for his #2 appearance on the pod! This was recorded in his London offices, and builds upon the themes from our first conversation. Bill discusses the very real threat of assassination by b…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe https://atlasgeographica.com/brian-klaas/ #166 - Brian Klaas is an associate professor in global politics at University College London, author of several books, host of a really good podcast, creator of a huge substack and someone who has created a life for himself …

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe #165 - Christopher Neijd is a police lieutenant for Southern Stockholm, he’s been in the force for more than 14 years, and is a close mates of Rhino who was episode #146 as a member of Sweden’s SWAT force, called Piketen. This is an interview about Christopher's exp…

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/mike-salbro-aboriginal-in-sweden/ Originally uploaded July 2021, episode #31 of the pod! Today, over 130 episodes later, I am re-uploading this ep to bring it the top of the feed! Mike’s story is full of twists, turns, tragedies and …

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter!! https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe The podcast's year in review! Check out stats of the podcast, reflection on best. episodes of the year, dreams and ambitions for the future. Pump the good juice! And see you next year mate ;)Di Ryan Faulkner-Hogg

✍︎: The Curious Worldview Newsletter!! https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/elizabeth-kolbert/ #162 - Elizabeth Kolbert writes about science, and the environment. She is staff writer at the New Yorker and now, the second pulitzer prize winning journalist to have joined this podcast. Elizabeth was awarded t…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/lisa-kristine/ #161 - Lisa Kristine is an adventurer, humanitarian & fine art photographer. She’s taken some of the most devastating but as well beautiful photos you are ever likely to see. She recorded an incredibly moving a TED talk about her work photographing mo…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe #160 - Marlene Laruelle is a Research Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University in Washington DC. She is an expert on the culture and anthropology of Russia and many of the Stan central asian countries. She’s written 10 books on these subjects and was …

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/oscar-cabello/ #159 - How do I introduce Oscar Cabello, other than to say, he is a great Paraguayan… Oscar is the former ambassador for Paraguay to Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia ,Greece, Italy, Spain, Morocco and Andorra. He was both the C…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/magnus-ranstorp/ #158 - Magnus Ranstorp is a Swedish academic, hostage negotiator, teacher and author who has been researching and writing about terrorism for more than 30 years. He is an encyclopaedia on modern terrorism and political violence. He was also the firs…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/explorers-podcast/ #157 - Matt Breen is host of the Explorers Podcast, which focuses on the great explorers and adventurers of history. I think I’m right in asserting that this is unlike you will have heard Matt before. He hasn’t done a dedicated long form podcast e…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/heidi-blake/ New Yorker Article - Great Carbon-For-Cash Hustle #156 - Heidi Blake is a writer at the New Yorker, author of two books, and recently wrote the most amazing magazine piece about the carbon offsetting market and some of the greenwashing schemes at its co…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/zeke-faux/ Number Go Up - Zeke Faux #155 - The general consensus for Zeke’s book is that is that it’s the better half of Michael Lewis’s ‘Going Infinite’. ‘Number Go Up’ documents, first hand, from the Bahamas to Cambodia to El Salvador to the halls of power of US, …

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/david-de-jong-oct-7th/ #154 - The following is with David De Jong who is the Middle East Correspondent for the Dutch Newspaper, FD. He lives in Israel, and has been reporting from the ground since the early hours of October 7th. Some of you may recognise him from an…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/duncan-mavin/ #153 - Lex Greensill's Pyramid Of Lies by Duncan Mavin. What if I told that you that Credit Suisse, one of finances most foundational banks was helped brought to it’s knees by a charismatic bogan playing posh from Bundaberg… This podcast is about a fel…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/matthew-friedman/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #152 - This is a podcast about human trafficking and modern slavery. The guest is Matthew Friedman, and he is the CEO of the Mekong Club, which is an organisation that mobilises the private sector to…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #151 - The following is with the debut Italian on this podcast, the one and only Luca Dellanna. Luca is the extremely successful author of 9 books, and he writes these alongside his day job, as an independent consult…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/russ-roberts/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #150 - Russ Roberts ladies and gentlemen. One of the true OG’s of podcasting and in fact so OG, that Russ is one of the mediums earliest adopters, Russ has been at this racket for nearly 20 years now sin…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/desmond-shum/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #149 - After climbing the peak of China's Elite, Desmond Shum had to flee his country of birth out of fear of being disappeared. He was on the inside of the political apparatus along with his former wife…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/scott-patterson/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #148 - Scott Patterson writes for the WSJ and is author of The Quants, DarkPools and Chaos Kings. Anyone who has listened to this podcast for a while will be familiar with my affinity for Nassim Taleb…

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-butcher-chasing-the-devil/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ #147 - Tim Butcher returns to the podcast with another incredible journey through an African nation. The first time Tim appeared he spoke about his adventures through the Congo, weaving a story of an incredibly rich and beautiful country…

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The fella who features here has been working with different divisions of Swedish law enforcement for over 20 years and this includes over 10 years with Piketen - Sweden’s equivalent of SWAT. Piketen says their work is ‘particularly dangerous and complex situations’ and this includes hostage situation…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/tim-marshall/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with friend of the show and one of the most popular guests from this podcasts history. This is his third appearance – he is the king of geography writing, he is the great and powerful Ti…

✍︎: https://curiousworldview.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/ed-conway/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ The following is with Ed Conway, who has written one of the most intensely curious books, it is called Material World and looks at some of these raw ingredients that have shaped the world we live in. Namely…

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/chris-williamson-interview/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ This was first published in early 2021 on this podcast. Chris Williamson is the host of the Modern Wisdom podcast, one of Europe's and quite frankly - the worlds - fastest growing and most exciting podcasts for the inquisitive mind. Chris h…

🎙️: https://atlasgeographica.com/norman-ohler/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ryanfhogg/ Norman Ohler is a German screenwriter, author and journalist. Norman is most widely known as the author of Blitzed, an incredible book that documents the role of Pervatin (methamphetamine) and drugs during Nazi Germany and WWII. In this podcast with Norm…