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b'Samo Burja (@SamoBurja), founder of Bismarck Analysis, joins Erik for this episode. You can find him on Medium at medium.com/@samo.burja.

They talk about:

- Whether capitalism and democracy are incompatible and what the future holds for democracy.

- Why economists need to look inside companies to learn from their cultures, not just at the relations between companies.

- Why the grey hoody is as much a worker\\u2019s uniform as the suit of the 1950s was.

- The coming merger of east and west coast media companies.

- China, the trade war, and the effects of the country expanding its influence in Europe and the Middle East.

- Why the big story of the 21st century that everyone is missing is that the Indian Ocean will become the hub of the world economy.

- Why he\\u2019s skeptical about the extent to which crypto will decentralize society.

- What people misunderstand about Henry Kissinger\\u2019s approach to geopolitics.

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