Whitney Baker - a macro economist who has worked in leadership roles at Soros Fund Management and Bridgewater Associates - hopped onto Joe Lonsdale’s podcast American Optimist to discuss the new macroeconomic winds that are blowing and what that may mean for the US as well as the rest of the world. Lonsdale is a co-founder of Palantir, the big data/AI company with deep ties to defense/intelligence industries, and which currently has a number of its employees embroiled in a heated kerfluffle with YC co-founder Paul Graham on Twitter. More on that later…