Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
There are a few theories, but none of them really satisfies. I recently wrote a post arguing that globalisation didn’t hollow out the American middle class (as many people believe). After I wrote the post, John Lettieri of the Economic Innovation Group wrote a great thread that strongly...
Generally I am only a modest believer in the role of sentiment in foreign affairs. Things like pride, hurt feelings, etc can make a difference (more than realists understand, for...
As “problems” go, being told you are on a very long waiting list to buy an expensive Rolex, is up there as the foremost, of first world “frustrations”. Well, we need keep the...
“The finest steel goes through the hottest fires. It feels no pain, no pity, no remorse, but stays sharp and ready.” After the last few weeks of tariffs, Trump and tech...
Today’s letter will explore Greenland’s potential as a real estate market by profiling a new real estate investment firm, Terra Boreale Ventures, which seeks to capitalise on these opportunities by sponsoring real estate projects at the fringes of American adventurism.
It took Tariff Man and the high priests of MAGA exactly two months to achieve his macroeconomic trinity: A collapse in the price of money, the price of crude oil and the US...
In times of financial stress, the market tends to take on a momentum all of its own. We may be in for further shocks, instabilities and dreadful No-See-Ums as investors try to discern what comes next following Trump’s tariffs. Interesting times to come…
Transaction data, hotel bookings, value shoppers, booze hounds, student borrowers . . . we got it all checking in on the Almighty Consumer, tariff uncertain, or nay? transaction...
Sometimes reality bites back at Trump, but not always. During the 2024 campaign, the stock market typically reacted favourably to good polling news for Donald Trump, and it...
Some readers may be familiar with Liu Cixin’s award-winning 2008 science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem or its 2024 Netflix adaptation. Either version provides a fitting...