
Finance builds bridges where geopolitics draws lines. Cross-border capital strategy for a world that stopped following the old rules.
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What I mean by metaphysics
The title promises two things at once, and since I intend to deliver both it is only fair to say at the outset what they are, before anyone begins to look for crystal balls.
In the philosopher's sense, metaphysi...
A companion piece to 2026: The Vantage Point, which traced the year immediately behind this one, the closure of two maritime passages, the nuclear file Iran's enrichment strikes left unresolved, and the quieter architecture a number of stat...
Eleven minutes to Poland
An Oreshnik missile takes eleven minutes to reach an air base in Poland from its launch point in Belarus, and seventeen to reach NATO headquarters in Brussels, travelling at up to ten times the speed of sound. Nobo...
The Silence Before the Seams Give Way
There exists a particular quality of silence that tends to settle over a system in the period immediately preceding its failure, and one ought to be careful to distinguish this silence from that of gen...
The collapse of the old category, and why the platform economics analogy is more than rhetorical
Ukraine performed, for the defense industry, roughly the function the iPhone performed for mobile computing, and the analogy deserves to be ta...
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Ex criminologist that now negotiates for a living. Only serious people have humour | The lens of finance exposes what geopolitics tries to disguise.
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