The Power Hungry Podcast: Peter Zeihan

[@juliatodhunter6454]

Two writers/speakers that are at the top of my list of favorites! What a treat it is to have both of you together for an interview!

[@Sky_Pony_1_mic_sierra]

Has to be the 1000th Peter Zeihan interview ive seen, but my first time seeing this channel...Robert is a fine interviewer. Will have to look for more

[@alanbressler1423]

check out his Substack. Killer.

[@bradenchurch552]

Same here. I’ve heard the “After World War Two..” and “when you have kids on a farm…” more times than I can count. Love Peter.

[@Kenneth_James]

Same here. I'd normally never even watch a random suggestion from such a small creator, but Rob is pretty good at this. Peters always great.

[@irongron]

same

[@wheel-man5319]

​@@Kenneth_Jamesyou do realize that alphabet works hard to make sure that Robert doesn't get wide distribution.

[@Indrid__Cold]

56:20 Absolutly the MOST personal information I've ever heard Peter Zeihan hold cort on in the 18 months I've been following his work. Maybe he's shared this before, but its the first time I have heard it. My compliments on asking a truly revealing question!

[@bradenchurch552]

I’ve watched many many Zeihan presentations/interviews and this is one of the best.

[@GeoScorpion]

Look for the seminars he tailors for specific corporations, government agencies, states/provinces, etc. He adds more information for those groups. Also, search for Zeihan, but then filter by "Length" (on KZbin) and not "Duration: +20". You'll find more variations specific to topics you may be interested in.

[@caseyh1934]

Just started the interview and I'm interested in what you're referring to...

[@tomaszg1050]

Keep listening to this clown and getting financially rekt lol

[@davidsolsbery9487]

This is what mainstream media should look like, bring on experts in their field and let them talk and provide rationale beyond sound bites, interjecting questions occasionally to move the topics along

[@GeoScorpion]

Just ban 24/7 media altogether. Since 9/11 the business model of 24/7 news has destroyed news. Jon Stewart pointed it out when he went after Bil O'Reilly and *ucker Carlson (getting Carlson fired from CNN's Crossfire). The business model for 24/7 news does not lend itself well to slow news days.

[@ianameline8111]

Good lord yes -- this is the polar opposite of what mainstream media is doing. They're all about making it a "horse race" , and ignoring facts right left and center in order to engineer that.

[@2Phast4Rocket]

Agree, also what was lost was the debate so we can hear different point of views which PBS used to do in the 80s. But all the TV shows are driving some sort of narrative and less of these long form conversations

[@jwatkins672012]

Agree with the caveat that there needs to be two people being interviewed that can chat like this with at least some areas where they have opposite views. For instance, if the subject were strictly China, I'd like to see Peter vs. Ray Dalio. Ray ran historical data and concluded the opposite of Peter on China. Peter could be the check to Ray's optimistic view because Ray's analysis of the past assumes a constant rise in population, which obviously isn't happening anymore in China.

[@billyb6001]

I am a Zeihanist

[@Indrid__Cold]

What a great meme!!! My compliments!

[@xdman20005]

😂

[@Packacone420]

Haha

[@firefly9838]

My fellow Zeihanist brothers and sisters😎

[@Smokey_da_Bear]

How unfortunate - for you.

[@dfsdh432v9]

i listen to this guy last 10 years, as entertainment. not for prediction nor information.

[@grannyannie2948]

I'm Australian. As to China what we see and our msm says they are coming for us. They depend on our resources from coal, iron, and agriculture. They have been buying infrastructure and agricultural land for decades. In about 2021 or 2022 we were threatened with missiles. We have more recently had navy divers attacked. We are closely allied with Europe, and especially Britain and the US. So much about Taiwan. What does an aging population need more, semi conductors, or food and electricity?

[@nonfictionone]

@@grannyannie2948semi conductors, to protect the food and electricity. ;->

[@grannyannie2948]

@@nonfictionone Interesting.

[@tomaszg1050]

Clown zeihan is making sure all the people who listen to him will get financially rekt

[@asdisskagen6487]

Same; he's a very entertaining speaker but has some glaring biases and holes in his reasoning and facts.

[@charleswomack2166]

I must give Jack Carr credit; it seems that he has ceased interrupting Peter. Outstanding interview!

[@-Gramps]

Jack Carr? Wrong channel?

[@charleswomack2166]

​@-Gramps Maybe. I am unsure if it was this guy or someone else. I do recall the person saying that "My audience wants to get rich" and the channel also had a rather large subscription to the channel. And my definition of large is 1 million subscribers.

[@lonelytraveller5062]

I'm Filipino of Chinese extraction and I agree most of what Zeihan said, especially about China. But everybody has a blind spot and Zeihan blind spot is American politics and about Biden. His approach to Biden is so far off that its not funny. The fact he is willing to make that issue as a hill to die on is baffling. He is willing to lose his reputation for Democrats and that is a head scratcher, considering he is generally an above average intelligent person.

[@iconifyme]

I've often wondered about this, but Professor Allan Lichtman, who has accurately predicted every Presidential outcome since Reagan says Biden is likely to win as well. He has not made his official prediction but he has said the "a lot of things will have to go wrong between now and November for Biden to lose and that is unlikely".

[@lonelytraveller5062]

@@iconifyme Yeah. Everything has already gone wrong for 4 years. Biden would win if the system is still the same. Again, I'm Filipino and we are familiar with our electoral system. When we realized that the US electoral system is far more corrupt and lax than our already corrupt system, then I know that people like that professor you mentioned, are all in the take. I always thought that only in the Philippines that we have dead voters, flying voters, voter fraud, etc. Now, I know where we learn these scams from.

[@calglider13]

@@iconifyme NEWS FLASH! Biden is NOT running for reelection. Now what?

[@michaelschnittker7388]

@@iconifyme Events that NOBODY anticipated (today is 4 Aug 2024) have made any election prediction from 4 months ago incorrect, no fault of their own. Biden quit, somebody tried but did not succeed to murder Trump, Kamala is now Queen of the Dems).

[@romania4712]

People need to stop surrounding themselves with people who think just like themselves.

[@kurth5286]

Peter is my morning coffee.

[@michaelraglin9387]

Me too

[@carmenmccauley585]

Love Peter. Never miss a poscast hes on or a book he's written or recommends.

[@stevemaxson3551]

Do you have a good resource of books that Peter has recommended?

[@RepressedObeseCat]

I loved the personal questions in the last 15 minutes - it explained much.

[@KatyLiedToMe]

I am a Zeihan fangirl, but it is great to be a fly on the wall for this discourse between these two energy experts

[@CMVBrielman]

Peter’s political prognostications are generally subpar when it comes to domestic politics. This was the guy that insisted *the same week* that Ron DeSantis announced his bid for the GOP nomination, that Ron DeSantis would not pursue the GOP nomination. And he also, in this very interview, left out examples of his premises being wrong. He insists that the party out of power had always won the Midterms, since Reconstruction. There’s loads of examples of that not being true, one of the more obvious ones being 2002. Other examples where the White House kept control: 1978, 1966, 1962, 1950, 1942, 1938, 1934, 1926, 1922, 1914, 1906, 1902, 1898. And thats just midterms where the President’s party kept *both* houses. Which does not describe 2022. There are also quite a few where the WH party also gained at least in once house: 1962, 1934, 1906, 1902, 1898.

[@joe42m13]

You only gave 1 other example in the last 50 years, and it's arguable that 2002 was an anomaly given the post-9/11 climate

[@CMVBrielman]

@@joe42m13 1978 was less than 50 years ago.

[@joe42m13]

@@CMVBrielman i like the way you split hairs while ignoring the argument. I guess 48 can't be rounded up 🤷

[@CMVBrielman]

@@joe42m13 When the argument is that “X never happens” and x happens 2 times out of a sample size of 12, yeah, thats worth ‘splitting hairs over. A 16.6% fail rate is not ‘never.’

[@xs10tl1]

Agreed. I believe it's part of the old Neocon/Neolib uniparty where they stayed out of each others' lanes .... I think he sometimes feeds talking points to push an outcome, and it shows much stronger on domestic issues.

[@cchrome3102]

Came here for Peter Zeihan, staying for the host. A fine interview!

[@longrange270]

His 2024 election predictions will make or break peter.

[@samsarsam6676]

They should, but people have short memories.

[@Elonics101]

Good show, GREAT questions. Interesting and to the point 💯👍

[@Dionysus-gv9lz]

He’s a generalist, that’s why I have trust in him, too many specialists with myopic narrow fixed views

[@birdstrikes]

Well said

[@amvsrllc719]

Robert, you are blessed with knowledge, the first interviewer that keeps pace with Peter who I admire. Looking forward to more of your pedcasts. Tom Hubbard, River Bend, NC

[@p.d.stanhope7088]

There's video clips from China Observer showing elementary schools' classes with only 2 to 3 students in 1 and 2 tier cities in the PRC post lock downs.

[@lolotus4borderless]

Truth

[@2Phast4Rocket]

It was reported that Japan has millions of abandoned homes because many of its cities have started to depopulation. There are schools that were built to teach hundreds of children but now they have less students than Teachers, sometimes they have less than 10 students

[@aaronchapin9331]

Ookay...so Zeihan says the first $1T or so of deficit is basically free. But we're spending that about every 100 days now, and that burn rate is likely to accelerate. I feel like there's a serious underestimation of the problem

[@watchlover7750]

Yes, for Peter, Usa will win in evey case, while everyone else will die and fail because americans are smarter. Meanwhile they are going toward civil war and bankrupcy

[@willhudson5625]

I first subscribed to this channel during Zeihan's first visit!

[@SamWilkinsonn]

Congrats

[@hydroac9387]

I did too! 😀

[@zukileisure]

Brilliant Interviewer brought out the best .. out of p z..

[@mipiace2504]

Angela Merkel was very unwise with her implementation of the green energy

[@aaronchapin9331]

As a physicist by training, she ought to have known better than to shut down nuclear plants that were paid for an in sound operating condition. For shame

[@tristan7216]

07:00 four to five million housing units shortage: We've got several million people coming over the border every year. They'll all need a place to live. An overshared apartment at first, but they'll climb the economic ladder and need a real home eventually. We haven't built 5 million homes over the last 2 decades, we're not going to build 2-3 million homes per year every year going forward, it's too hard to site them in areas where the jobs are. I don't see a way out of this. Ever.

[@Bucky1836]

As a son of a Texas residential contractor , 2014 killed us due to Material and fuel cost, Peter fails to factor the TOTAL cost, generalist usually fail on thst , dad and 2008-2014 beat that out of me

[@Bucky1836]

And prices have pulled us all down and theres no incentive to "move up"

[@barrettbyrd5319]

Demographically- as current retirees die, downsize, or move to assisted living we will see an increase in supply. As the boomers have just started that cycle in the last 5 years, we won’t hit that peak for another 2-5 years. This will not be enough to outstrip demand, but it will add much needed inventory to the market.

[@richardcarroll2090]

Its why we await the passing of the top half of baby boomers They have lots of homes, often multiple homes

[@sandroaces]

Once he said Biden will win in a land slide he lost me lol

[@cmleibenguth]

Capital costs coming down by the time Millennials are in mid 50s is the problem (in regards to housing) Saying this too shall pass is not going to give anyone hope when a major component of life progression and community investment isnt in place until so late in life due to forces outside of your control

[@Bucky1836]

Gen X Are Boomer juniors

[@carmena1209]

Millennials will inherit billions from the baby boomers. Millennials will retire just fine. They can chill until their parents die.

[@jrpark05]

While Zeihan is very critical of Trump, even he states that industrial construction spending in the US began expanding in 2018, and that is when Trump was president.

[@LRRPFco52]

His critiques of Trump just don’t hold water. It’s weird to watch him speak so surely about things that don’t match up with the sentiment among the electorate, especially with so many Democrats who are planning to vote for Trump. That’s where his independent assumptions fall apart. There is no road to victory for Joe and it keeps getting worse every month. His disastrous policies on economics, immigration, military, and foreign policy are very palpable among the electorate and our allies and foes alike. Joe represents a level of weakness in the White House we haven’t seen in generations. He makes Obama and Carter look like solid presidents.

[@wheel-man5319]

​@@LRRPFco52I still expect that we will be told that brandon has won. Not that such a thing as brandon winning will actually be true.

[@LRRPFco52]

@@wheel-man5319 I think the results will be too overwhelming again to overcome the rigging, so more drastic measures will be resorted to. The criminal elite and their stooges in the administrative state and 3-letter communities know that Trump knows now who the enemies are. They can’t afford another Trump WH, and will use all their powers to stop him. I think their main contingency will be a major distraction with some type of attacks, especially now that they have even more sleeper cells in the Country who are financed by Biden through Iran and who knows what other enemies of the US.

[@stevenmatthews4848]

​@@LRRPFco52this entire comment is a case study in confirmation bias and flawed logic. Just ignore it and move on.

[@randacnam7321]

@@LRRPFco52 Zeihan has been in government circles too long, thus his unwarranted hatred of Evil Orange Man Who Is Bad. Same with his thinking that Western countries can import replacement workers ad infinitum instead of reforms to make the natives (us) have kids again.

[@Yeahyeah116]

I’m a fan of Peter’s but his domestic politics analysis is just plain rubbish. He actually said that Biden and Trump are the same on the issue of cognitive decline. That is a BONKERS statement. Say what you will about Trump, and there’s plenty to say, but he is FAR healthier physically and cognitively. It’s not close. He is old and could lose it like anyone else his age but the idea that Peter would say this is reason enough to doubt everything else he says relative to domestic politics.

[@GaBoyzzz]

Best guest possible

[@gking407]

“I’m NOT a partisan!” says the man, shaking his head. Something tells me you are!

[@devalapar7878]

Barbari pirates were part of the Ottoman empire. That was a long time ago. The social norms back then were really interesting. You had Christians, Muslims and Jews. Pirates one time worked on trade ships and the other time on a pirate ship. It was a consequence of opportunities. North Africa had very little trade, so they had to do piracy. And in South Europe trade was strong.

[@charlielawson2510]

They "Had to Steal"? Wow!

[@hitchensghost]

Vikings used to be both raiders and traders. They just stuck a war figurehead on their warship and their trading vessel became the most feared in any sea.

[@arturl7583]

GREAT INTERVIEW. BUT - You may have underestimated the significance of the debt. The Japanese have lot of savings and all the debt is an internal debt financed by their own banks. . Secondly Japanese have obiedient society and low inflation to smooth social problems. This is NOT the US case. So not enough that you see a lot of inflation coming for few important reasons you stipulated you may see :1.short term but abrupt deflationary collapses due to the asset bubble you tend to create (see US bonds, lots of commercial real estate, etc), 2. falling currency adding up to inflation, 3. huge interest spending on the debt resulting in either financial repression (too low interest to pay the debt) leading to even more inflation. HUGE IMBALANCES ahead with all the social problems associated.

[@cwg9238]

"biden will demolish trump" yeah, nah, i dont think this guy is very attached to reality. stopped watching there.

[@TheHooppel410]

it concerns me how certain peter is about his views

[@coreymicallef365]

It should since most of his predictions have been constant for the last 10 years including the parts about it all happening sometime in the next decade. He's also very prone to hyperbole by saying the current thing he's talking about is the most extreme case of "x" ever in history for everything.

[@samsarsam6676]

It should.

[@pascalbercker7487]

Robert Bryce is one of the very few interviewers I ever see actually taking notes! For me that is the mark of excellence. But I'm baffled by the relatively small number of subscribers given the quality of the guests and the seriousness of the content. If I had to guess I would suspect that Robert Bryce is perceived to be somewhere on the right given his views on energy and on "renewables" so-called, and may therefore be held down by the YT algorithm.

[@GeoScorpion]

No. To be honest, I never heard of Robert Bryce before this, but KZbin does NOT like controversial subjects, especially China/Russia since YT makes a lot of money off of WuMao, RuBots and Corporations. The same is true of Patreon, now, and Twitter.

[@rolfman01]

He did not know the that Rex Tillerson was in the Trump cabinet, he has no industry reality, just think tank talking points. Nobody in the industry thinks he has anything to add. Peter has had much better interviewers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bryce_(writer)

[@GeoScorpion]

@@rolfman01 I am 55 and I am getting frustrated that things I know I know is at the tip of my tongue and it takes a smart-ass coffee boy mumbling the name to remind me and unleash the flood of info I know. We get caught on the tip-of-the-tongue thing, but then we remember case numbers, dates, a stray remark a professor said. To be honest, I forgot about Rex Tillerson. I like him, but he had no business being in that job!

[@philtimmons722]

@@GeoScorpion Trump, etc., thought that since Tillerson was an Oil Guy, he could cut some deals with Russia that would come out better than things have.

[@GeoScorpion]

@@rolfman01 Tillerson was there and gone... given that the average American doesn't know the name of a single cabinet member and doesn't know what the Secretary of State even does for a living... I'm not surprised.

[@mcintyjohn]

Peter loves the big state.

[@Smokey_da_Bear]

Of course - they are his clientele.

[@DMU386]

Well He did work for the US intelligence apparatus for two decades. Notice how none of us knew he existed and then all of a sudden he’s here, everywhere. thats because he retired as in “got out”

[@coreymicallef365]

@@DMU386 You might not have heard of him (I certainly had), but the reason he got big all of a sudden was because he coincidently managed to publish a book about the collapse of thecurrent global system about 30 seconds before the pandemic which turned a book that no one would have cared about into the top selling book on Amazon for a while which he capitalised on by doing 300 events in following 12 months. It's just good timing.

[@nomadtv6009]

Might be because states are what prevent anarchy. It's how the world works. Don't know that he likes it but he certainly understands it and understands how critical it is that it works in our favor. You would prefer a different result? No thanks.

[@skiguru99]

Great interview and interviewer

[@petergozinya6122]

56:55 I didn’t like being in front of crowds so I went into public speaking 🤣🤣🤣

[@rnish2958]

In 30 years the US becomes Japan, I will consider it a win. Japan still runs a civil society. We could end up as Zimbabwe.

[@robhead22]

I am a huge Peter Zehein fan!! Thank you!

[@kapdolkim1914]

My Mom is 84. She smoked for 67 years and didn't live healthy. Her short term memory was fried during a long surgery. But if you talk to her about anything intellectual she is sharp as a tack. And maybe, just maybe, Biden works 80 hours a week so the stress is taking its toll. Remember how screwed up young GW was? After his presidency, that crap went away. Of course, Trump played golf - or blabbed away at a microphone - for a good chunk of his presidency. Funny, with all of the shit Trump is forced to deal with now, he is becoming just like Biden and Bush.

[@Dionysus-gv9lz]

Good point

[@Qwerty123qazwsdrfv]

Biden has been on vacation for 40% of his presidency. On average his workday begins at 930 and ends before 1600. No president has worked less. It's simply because he is not in charge. The presidential schedule is public record.

[@rainpaken6240]

Will listen when Peter Zeihan is talking

[@brandon_youtube]

The US election is more unpredictable than Zeihan expects. He's not accounting for silent voters who don't participate in polls. And, the people of America will NOT willingly put Biden through 4 more years of degredation. I wouldn't underestimate this.

[@mryouben]

I like Peter

[@skyefarnam7857]

What heppens when the boomers start giving up their three bedroom houses for condos or retirement communities?

[@BucherLaw]

Many of them are actually buying/building larger places. Never underestimate the rampant materialism and need to flex the top end of them possess. Those properties will come available when they die after they squander all their treasure on their in home medical assistance as they are stranded in a single room or two of their 3000-5000 sq foot vanity projects.

[@torinruppert674]

So awesome he mentioned Robert Gates, I was fortunate enough to be around him and his wife, great people.

[@BoldCourier]

Excellent interview

[@rajsinghji-84]

Nobody lies, and only lies, so confidently.

[@CVEIWKID]

I actually think Trump is a great president.

[@jeffbrown773]

I like Peter but sometimes he’s so wrong. The navy created to LCS to solve the battle group problem. The problem was they were over promised, and the ships underperformed and now we are building ships that immediately get sent to the scrap heap.

[@leftbankcreative]

Purely constructive comment and please don’t take this personally: you interrupt Peter far too much. You can see the frustration on his face and, let’s face it, we’re all here to listen to him.

[@zapfanzapfan]

Always interesting to listen to.

[@dbcoopernd]

It's always hilarious watching Peter's TDS completely blind him to reality. Watching him try to walk all that garbage back in the coming years will almost be worth having to deal with Trump as president again.....almost.

[@davidmichael8122]

Predictions and conclusions are never the point. Peter's WAY of thinking (and his ability to communicate that) is why he is so popular. US media is unacceptably superficial. An American who takes a big picture approach is worth their weight in gold.

[@DocMoney_]

Bitcoin is better than gold and real estate. Peter sees a lot but is blind to what it means as a financial mechanism to enable the common man to uplift themselves in a financial policy environment that impoverishes the people with inflation.

[@scottpulver]

Zeihan doesn't like Trump ... Keep that in mind ...

[@iconifyme]

He does not like Biden either.

[@StephenReynolds-b6c]

What a way to tell GenZ sorry, but you’re not going to be able to afford anything in the next 10 years! Makes me feel like I’m contributing greatly to this economy while getting nothing in return! Me being a Genzr waking up at 5AM in the construction industry every morning

[@BucherLaw]

Move to somewhere more affordable or adjust your expectations. Reality comes at you fast. Your labor is valuable and you can write your own ticket. I am the youngest xer and I entered a market that didn't want me because the boomers dominated then the whole thing rolled over and took a shit in 07 08. I suck with it, got through it, and now things are good for me and my family. Everyone has some suck except the boomers. Neither you nor I and likely no current generation living will pull that inside Boomer straight flush. So get your crap together or be miserable, you get to be American so you really shouldn't bitch

[@johnnoto3245]

Save your money, buy a piece of land outside of a city limits with cash. Since you're in the construction field, build your own home and pay for it as you go. Start with a concrete pad and rough in plumbing. Buy lumber as you build with cash. In a year or two, you'll have a home and no mortgage.

[@freedomcontrolled6190]

Zeihan really showing his military and medical industrial complex connections and pay structure when he calls Kennedy a nutcase!!!

[@thezfunk]

The electrical transmission issue is so annoying. The NIMBYs are ruining it. In Wisconsin, they are trying to run a big transmission line through the SW part of the state to get Iowa wind power and the NIMBYs are just obnoxious. It is open farmland, it won't be ruined with high voltage lines run across it.

[@erikfromflandres]

Question: how much more expensive is LNG compared to natural gas by pipeline per unit of energy?

[@darelsmith2825]

I'd forgotten about Rex Tillerson. Two crude refineries are over a hundred years old. We need a modern refinery for more jetfuel and less solvents and lubricants to shut those grandfathered plants.

[@DrorBenAmi-w4u]

I have heard that Germany started WW2 in 1939 because they had calculated they would run out of oil by 1945..... So they knew they had to invade Russia and get to the southern oil fields.... So...i think China has made the same type of calculation. They know they must act by a certain date or they will be finished....

[@ohthankg-dforthebourgeoisi9800]

A major problem in the garment industry is overproduction. if the garment industry was simply able to take orders and then produce the garment, there would be an incredible amount of savings

[@wrdennig]

With all of the political dysfunction and civil rights dismantling going on in the U.S., I'm often depressed - that is, until I listen to a Zeihan presentation. Then, the Bull saves my psyche.

[@One_Call_System]

I know Zeihan well, always awesome. You did a great job too as host. Subbed.

[@JD..........]

Thank you, great interview

[@jamescampbell-ws3dy]

Ya, Bush Sr was the real deal. It should be a pre requisite to be president, his resume was perfect. You can't just be a politician to be president, you need to have done some serious sh!t to be president

[@romoore2094]

Peter, how do you feel about brazil's dictator?

[@pascalbercker7487]

Customer assistance at Walmart has better audio that Zeihan! He really needs to get a better microphone!

[@wheel-man5319]

😂🤣

[@callroland]

Chrome has an app that magnifies volume. I had the same problem, and it solved it.

[@texasoilfields]

Are you hard-of-hearing?

[@Marty_Au79]

I would love to see Robert interview. Michael Saylor. Then I would like to see Zeihan debate Saylor on the irrelevancy of Bitcoin. I have been following Peter since Stratfor but I think he is way off, undereducated and out of his element on the topic. If you haven't studied it for a few hundred hours then you don't understand it. Aside from that, this was a great interview.

[@raminsafizadeh]

I wouldn’t count on India for anything. They seem to be out for as much as a free ride as they can-even on China!

[@drg598]

Are u a Muslim?

[@DrorBenAmi-w4u]

Tom Petty wanted to escape from Florida and when he saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan he thought: "Music is the way out...."

[@tetonriver6068]

The only reason all the investment in our “industrial sector” is inflationary, is because the money was just printed by the federal government through the second Covid relief act and the inflation acceleration act. If that investment had come from real capital already in existence and in circulation within the economy, the investments would not have the inflationary effect that we have been witnessing. I put industrial sector in air quotes because the investment has been very selective based on government directives. As the result, the investments have been far less helpful and productive than they would have been If real demand in the economy drove them. First and foremost was killing the Keystone pipeline and following Germany down the rathole on stupid alternative energy investments.

[@ericmay7722]

What does Peter Zeihan think of Davos?😊

[@justinpaul3110]

He doesn't take it too seriously. He thinks it's little more than a party for world leaders. ok...

[@lolololololo97]

He’s a fan Peter is a globalist he just knows globalism is failing

[@4700_Dk]

It’s has been a incredibly warm winter so far here in Europe.

[@reeldeelz2940]

Peter needs to get a proper mic... he always sounds like an airline pilot in these interviews

[@wouldsgalore]

Listen carefully to what this guy is saying. He is speaking to us from the NSA. Good, because we all need to understand the world view of our team. His facts are probably 95% correct. Good enough for me.

[@VancouverInvestor]

Lol...isn't Statfor CIA?

[@wouldsgalore]

@@VancouverInvestor sort of. It's the NSA's vehicle to push updates to the CIA and their affiliates. They are an NSA subsidiary and a vendor to the CIA.

[@kschleic9053]

@28:00 the point that a carrier battlegroup is the wrong tool for deterring piracy/sea lane denial is incorrect... Our policy for dealing with these threats is just wrong-sized for the capabilities we have. The US carrier battlegroups could blockade any portion of global trade they wished, indefinately. If yhe US closed the red sea to Russian/Iranian/Chinese shipping until yemeni attacks stopped, I guarantee Russia/Iran would rather have their oil money than have further destabilization in the middle east.

[@3029dz]

His 10 year Real estate investment doesn't make sense when the same time as baby boomers are relinquishing housing occupation.

[@joe42m13]

Boomers are retiring, not dying. You don't move into a retirement home for another 15-20 years

[@--Dani]

Zeihan seems correct on many issues and most are agreeable, except his Trump/Biden upcoming election and polls show it, Biden is losing is all the swing states that matter...Also Trump even if one doesn't like his style did govern as well as the system allowed until the Wuhan virus.

[@Mr.PhatsVarietyVibesShow]

didn't peter say in other interviews & maybe this one that Trump won't win? it's possible he will lose.. I have a feeling he will lose maybe the election could be rigged ,but who knows... I think the anti Trumpers are going for broke..

[@Indrid__Cold]

Trump doesn't have a "style," he has a pathology. The ONLY reason he seemed competent prior to COVID was because he knew he had no idea what he was doing and actually LISTENED to more experienced people. By the time COVID came around (for which there were no "experts") he began to trust the voices INSIDE his head. The next thing you knew people were dying by the thousands a day.

[@Mr.PhatsVarietyVibesShow]

Biden is no better than the orange man in this regard @@Indrid__Cold

[@williamvu714]

Zeihan has a mind for the macro and is a utilitarian so he doesn't understand when people are irrational. People's feelings are infectious and the nation's mood is leaning towards Trump right now. The smart move in 2016 was Hilary but people are irrational and feelings drive our human actions.

[@Indrid__Cold]

​@@Mr.PhatsVarietyVibesShowBut Biden is far more agreeable. Unless you believe that every problem in the world is the product of the left, you have no place in Trump's tent. Biden is at least supportive of concepts based upon merit and an unshakable belief in what's right or wrong.

[@WackadoodleMalarkey]

18:45 In fairness Michael Moore did have to go on a big _"I Didn't Make That Fuggn Movie!"_ tour 😹

[@serwombles8816]

Trump is the greatest prez!

[@chickenfishhybrid44]

A small drone taking out a carrier lol

[@tsluiter4]

Russia's Black Sea Fleet hasn't had a good time with drones.

[@LRRPFco52]

@@tsluiter4 Russia’s Black Sea fleet has been attrited by surface-to-surface missiles and waves of RPV boats packed with thousands of pounds of explosives. Small drones are but a nuisance for a carrier.

[@bronzedivision]

@@LRRPFco52 And the carrier won't even get into range in the first place. Distance is the first and biggest of its many defenses. Small drones are a problem for the airwing and escorts, but they're just blips over the horizon for the carrier.

[@itsallfunandgames723]

I certainly saw a lot of internet chatter when the Gaza war began that soon the Americans would regret their actions and their carrier would be at the bottom of the ocean! I guess not.

[@wheel-man5319]

Absolutely possible!

[@stapleman007]

36:00 Micheal Flynn is oddly absent from this conversation.

[@H3LLS3NT4SS4SS1N]

Michael Flynn is a traitor

[@guiwhiz]

You don't have to have an 'eidetic' (photographic) memory to have an excellent memory and even more importantly have a strong gift for organizing, correlating, and connecting information together. As an analogy an 'eidetic' remembers exactly what page and what part of the page a particular paragraph is and what it says. That doesn't mean an 'eidetic' isn't also 'smart' but it isn't a given that remembering something correlates with understanding the ramifications of the information.

[@justinpaul3110]

If there's one question that i'd love answered (and I don't think that it will get answered correctly) is how much influence Russia has on politics in other countries. I know they try to meddle. However, do they meddle SUCCESSFULLY? I think that people conflate the two.

[@konstantinzalad52]

Blowing my mind, again andagain

[@annekeller4124]

Great post - but please call it CONdensate, not conDENsate.

[@johnbeech]

Really insightful stuff at kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZesn4ujrKyMorM - thanks Rob for keeping Peter honest!

[@michaelk5676]

I read the Chinese rockets filled with water story, was debunked since they don't fuel rockets until just before launch. Is Peter wrong here?

[@sergiofedele6811]

Zeihan never considers the problem of Overshoot of planetary boundaries of biologic resources or addresses the climate crisis that will devastate also Mexico and Texas and many other places

[@Eric-is1jt]

This guy has alot of viewpoints on topics,sadly many of them are nothing more than dramatic opinion of things he is gambling an option on.Peopje like to have followers of theiropinions,everyone wants fans and believers,it keeps them in business!😅😮😊

[@4mb127]

I really don't understand what's the thesis here for the sudden collapse for Chinese manufacturing. The plants won't suddenly disappear. The workforce ages, yes, but how does that mean that the services suddenly disappear?

[@missshroom5512]

Peter I so appreciate your work! I have to seen you speak with that globe picture behind your head for oh I don’t know a couple years now. If you raised that picture up 5-10 inches it would not look like crazy bunny ears coming out of your head. I remember first seeing it and it took me a good while to even figure out it was the earth. Every single time I see it and you I think bunny ears. It is very distracting for someone as important as you. 🌎☀️💙

[@wyoung8]

Both completely wrong on Biden and Trump, very interesting in all the other subjects

[@apajaro3677]

Too much interruptions by the interviewer. It disrupts the train of thought not just the guest but mine as well.

[@KRS-ro6oi]

12:09 The gas for the Nort Sea does not, in any way, go to Sweden. Most of it goes to Norway. Some goes to UK and NL. And at tiny bit goes to DK.

[@kazeryu4834]

I love how Peter doesn’t even dignify crypto as a talking point now

[@leggy12]

Peter Zeihan is the Jim Cramer of Geopolitics

[@Tenebrousable]

He has a lot of data. But most of his projections are bad, I believe. And that is shown by his projections he's made in the past.