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Can America Keep Absorbing Global Capital?
Lower Manhattan at sunset. Photo: Sebastian Schuster
Black Paper: Can America Keep Absorbing Global Capital?
The Ground
A company can build in India, sell in Europe, borrow in dollars and list in New York. Where it produces, wh...
The War for the Middle
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transiting the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Navy, 2016.
Black Paper: The War for the Middle
The Ground
Saudi Arabia built the East - West Pipeline to move crude from its eastern fields to Yanbu on the Red Sea...
How to Read The Black Line
Most news arrives as fragments.
A tariff changes. A ship stops in a strait. A government announces an industrial policy. A company misses a target. A central bank speaks. A commodity rises. Each event is presented as its own story, competi...
The Best Trade in History
The Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana.
NASA Earth Observatory.
Black Paper: The Best Trade in History
The Ground
In 1803, the United States sent diplomats to Paris to buy New Orleans. They came back with a continent.
That sentence...
Bitcoin Is Waiting for the AI Trade to Break
Black Paper: Bitcoin Is Waiting for the AI Trade to Break
The Ground
Bitcoin can rebound before a bull market begins.
That distinction matters more than usual in 2026. The asset may have found a floor after a violent drawdown. Institu...
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