Adam Taggart | Thoughtful Money, Released on 5/11/25
The pace of change in the world order has accelerated notably in 2025. The era of globalization is being fast replaced by nationalism, protectionism and a shift towards regional trading blocks. In America, there’s suddenly a recognition that runaway deficit spending and the accumulating pile of debt & unfunded liabilities is an existential problem that needs dealing with. How are these accelerating developments changing the outlook for the future? For insight, we’re fortunate to welcome macro analyst and interviewer extraordinaire Grant Williams back to the program.
0:00 – Introduction to accelerating world order shift
2:00 – Secular change beyond politics
8:08 – Personal resilience for disruption
11:06 – Assessing progressive vs. destructive change
19:20 – Scope of change may be unimaginable to many
24:24 – Defensive strategy for high-stakes change
30:10 – Inflation as a persistent threat
38:00 – Financial markets’ diminished role
44:34 – Imagining unconventional outcomes
50:00 – Investments for wealth protection
1:13:22 – Music recommendation: Louis Dunford
1:17:26 – Resources to follow Williams’ work
1:19:50 – Parting advice for navigating change
Grant Williams is a portfolio and strategy advisor to Vulpes Investment Management in Singapore and an Advisor to Matterhorn Asset Management in Switzerland and the founder and publisher of Things That Make You Go Hmmm… and the Grant Williams Podcast. Grant has decades of experience in finance on the Asian, Australian, European and US markets and has held senior positions at several international investment houses, including Robert Fleming, UBS and Credit Suisse.
Adam Taggart is the Founder of Thoughtful Money. He is also Co-Founder and former President of Peak Prosperity. Adam is an experienced Silicon Valley internet executive and Stanford MBA. Prior to partnering with Chris Martenson (Adam was General Manager of our earlier site, ChrisMartenson.com), he was a Vice President at Yahoo!, a company he served for nine years. Before that, he did the ‘startup thing’ (mySimon.com, sold to CNET in 2001). As a fresh-faced graduate from Brown University in the early 1990s, Adam got a first-hand look at all that was broken with Wall Street as an investment banking analyst for Merrill Lynch. Most importantly, he’s a devoted husband and dad.
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