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History
Patterns, turning points & forgotten context
“Why do empires always debase their currency before they fall?”
Geopolitics
Power, alliances & the forces shaping our world
“What the rise of the multipolar world actually means for you”
Capital Markets
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“How central banks quietly shape history”
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“What blockbusters reveal about the society that made them”
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The disconnect between US paper strength built on globalization and assumed US hegemony vs. today's realities
Markets are pricing years of AI-fueled “contracts” through the lens of accrual accounting, while the physical world strains under shortages, an unending Iran war, and a bully who doesn’t realize he’s playing musical chairs. As the post-WWII order’s music gets ready to stop, paper strength may matter far less than real capacity.
Lawrence of Arabia's broken promise, the Houthis and today's mess in the Mid East
A century ago, T.E. Lawrence led an Arab Revolt on the strength of a British promise of independence, and Britain broke it with the colored-pencil borders of Sykes-Picot. Today the Houthis are using Lawrence’s own asymmetric playbook against the West, and the lost Iran war may be ending the Pax Americana built on those borders.
Scott Bessent is no James Baker…but it's not all his fault
Scott Bessent is reaching for James Baker’s Plaza Accord soft power, and missing. After a lost conventional war with Iran, sanctions without carrots collide with rising China–Russia “sharp power,” leaving markets to price stubborn inflation and higher US rates.
Tet Offensive 2026 – Brace yourself…
Like Johnson’s 1968 credibility gap after Tet, a Trump administration that has declared “victory” over Iran sixty-plus times now faces its own reckoning, as censored reality, Hormuz risk, and Taiwan spillover threaten to shatter the market narrative that this war is contained.
The Houthis, the Beatles, and What Blowfish can Teach Us About the Middle East
Like a blowfish, Yemen’s Houthis have inflated far beyond their size, seizing Bab el-Mandeb and, with Iran’s hold on Hormuz, putting roughly $10 billion a day in global trade at risk. Their “overnight” rise looks sudden only if you ignore the long asymmetric apprenticeship that made it possible.
What If Our "Techno-Feudal" Lords Are "Careless People"?
Given the vast resources involved in conjunction with the possibility that many jobs get eliminated in its wake; America is heavily invested in artificial intelligence (AI) and a tech led future. But while optimism abounds as to what new heights can be reached through an all-out pursuit of ubiquitous AI; what if this frantic digital…
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