Ep.140 Real Conversations | The Fractals of Finance: Richard Brennan on the Hidden Geometry of Markets

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Keith McCullough interviews Richard Brennan about the hidden geometry of financial markets and the challenges to conventional market theories.

***This webcast originally aired live on Hedgeye.com on June 9, 2026*** Markets may look chaotic. But are they truly random? In this special Real Conversation, Hedgeye Founder and CEO Keith McCullough sits down with Richard Brennan, author of The Fractals of Finance: Determinism, Adaptation and the Geometry of Markets, for a fascinating discussion on the deeper structure driving financial markets. Brennan’s work challenges the conventional view that markets are clean, efficient machines. Inst...

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Host: Keith McCullough

Guest: Richard Brennan

Topics covered

• finance
• markets
• fractals
• geometry
• investing
• chaos theory

Keywords

• financial markets
• chaos
• determinism
• adaptation
• geometry
• investing
• efficiency

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Fractals of Finance

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