Patrick Boyle is a Founding Partner at Palomar Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund, which he sold in 2018, and remained a Director of until 2020. He began his finance career in 1997 and has worked with Victor Niederhoffer, a former partner of George Soros’ and has been a Portfolio Manager at RBS, Millennium and Nomura. Patrick is a visiting professor of finance at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. He has written three finance textbooks and runs a popular YouTube channel where he uploads weekly educational finance videos. He appears regularly on financial news television, writes occasional op-ed pieces for The Financial Times and speaks at financial conferences.
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Episode 458
Patrick Boyle
The Epstein Files Are Worse Than You Think | Patrick Boyle
Patrick Boyle is a Founding Partner at Palomar Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund, which he sold in 2018, and remained a Director of until 2020. He began his finance career in 1997 and has worked with Victor Niederhoffer, a former partner of George Soros’ and has been a Portfolio Manager at RBS, Millennium and Nomura. Patrick is a visiting professor of finance at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. He has written three finance textbooks and runs a popular YouTube channel where he uploads weekly educational finance videos. He appears regularly on financial news television, writes occasional op-ed pieces for The Financial Times and speaks at financial conferences.
In Episode 458 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Patrick Boyle, a former hedge fund manager, finance professor, and the creator and host of one of the most successful business channels on YouTube, with over a million subscribers and nearly 150 million views spread across several hundred videos.
Patrick brings a unique combination of domain expertise and media savvy to his analysis of financial markets, economic scandals, and the complex web of power that connects Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and Washington.
Demetri asked Patrick Boyle to appear on the podcast after discovering that his channel had been demonetized as a result of his exploration of the Jeffrey Epstein story—not the salacious details that have dominated headlines, but the deeper questions about the intersection of power, wealth, regulatory capture, and institutional failure that the story reveals.
They explore where Epstein’s massive fortune actually came from, why simple explanations accounting for his wealth don’t add up, what the heavily redacted release of FBI files tells us about how our two-tiered justice system operates in practice, and what Patrick’s personal experience of having his YouTube channel demonetized for covering this story reveals about algorithmic censorship and the incentive structures shaping modern media.
The rest of the conversation is devoted to a broader discussion about the transformation of our information ecosystem, the power of platforms like YouTube to amplify or suppress content, what it would take to build a viable media company or platform that prioritizes quality and truth over engagement and controversy, the challenges facing young journalists trying to break into rapidly evolving industry, and why maintaining networks of trustworthy content creators and sources has become more important now than ever.
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Patrick Boyle is a Founding Partner at Palomar Capital Management, a quantitative hedge fund, which he sold in 2018, and remained a Director of until 2020. He began his finance career in 1997 and has worked with Victor Niederhoffer, a former partner of George Soros’ and has been a Portfolio Manager at RBS, Millennium and Nomura.
Patrick is a visiting professor of finance at King’s College London and Queen Mary University of London. He has written three finance textbooks and runs a popular YouTube channel where he uploads weekly educational finance videos. He appears regularly on financial news television, writes occasional op-ed pieces for The Financial Times and speaks at financial conferences.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
