{"id":97,"date":"2021-02-06T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartermarkets.media\/?p=97"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T18:37:50","slug":"dr-ben-hunt-founder-of-epsilon-theory-social-media-financial-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartermarkets.media\/dr-ben-hunt-founder-of-epsilon-theory-social-media-financial-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Hunt on Narrative Management in Finance and Society as a Whole"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"97\" class=\"elementor elementor-97\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a53b445 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a53b445\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f848a1\" data-id=\"2f848a1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e34176 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"9e34176\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<iframe title=\"Commodities Legends and Market Builders Episode 11 | Ben Hunt on Narrative Management in Finance and Society as a Whole\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?from=embed&i=w6emw-f9a0a4-pb&share=1&download=1&fonts=Arial&skin=1&font-color=&rtl=0&logo_link=&btn-skin=c73a3a&size=150\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-087b7e0 episode-info elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"087b7e0\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4050463\" data-id=\"4050463\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33bfd79 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"33bfd79\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Epsilon Theory founder Dr. Ben Hunt joins SmarterMarkets\u2122 to weigh in on how social media is being used to engineer the narratives which shape both financial markets and society more broadly. 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