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We Have Liftoff

Tesla's Roadster demo lifts the brand, but open questions remain on specs and release, with implications for legacy firms and insurers.
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Learning from Berkshire's mess: Ethan Allen

Buffett's textile lesson applied to Ethan Allen: why we recommend voting FOR all five DGB nominees on the WHITE card.
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France on Fire; the Impact of a Possible Default

A leading French presidential candidate proposes cancelling the nation's debt, an effective default. What it could mean for investors.
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Should He Stay or Should He Go? Shareholders Have Answered

Better Home & Finance shareholders backed founder Vishal Garg's consent solicitation, as Egan-Jones recommended.
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Nipping at the Heels

Open-source software is gaining share from closed-source rivals, especially with consumers, while incumbents keep some lock-in.
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Carved Up and Hollowed Out

AI is removing the overhead that kept professionals in large firms, pressuring the sponsors, lenders and shareholders behind them.
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Suffering from Success: Poor Chinese Equity Returns

China outgrew the US, but competition handed the gains to workers and customers, not shareholders.
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An Unholy Alliance; The Emerging New World Order

Cheap missiles and drones have handed Shia-aligned groups the Middle East's oil chokepoints. The petrodollar order is unravelling.
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Doing All the Right Things and Being Disastrously Wrong

Even stellar issuers can deliver disastrous bond returns when duration, rates, pricing, and sector risks are overlooked.
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Preparing for the Coming Tsunami; Finding Safe Harbors

Rising debt and shifting industrial power may force painful adjustments, increasing the need for resilient assets and safe harbors.
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Tricolor Early Indicators

Tricolor’s collapse shows how rising delinquencies, higher funding costs, and falling collateral values can signal credit risk.
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MAD World; Private Assets and State-Level Risk

Cheap, long-range drones expose commercial assets, insurers, lenders and investors to rising strategic risk.
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The financialization of the economy; an unconsidered vulnerability of the West

Financial power follows economic power; China’s rise could challenge U.S. market dominance and trigger major repricing.
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Are We There Yet? The End of the Iran War

U.S. goals in Iran remain unmet as Hormuz disruption, inflation, depleted reserves and regional attacks raise global economic risks.
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Chokepoint Chokehold; Risk to Middle East Sovereigns

Middle East sovereigns face concentrated risks in oil routes, water, food, demographics, stability, and escalation.
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False Basic Assumptions; Ripples from AI

AI is challenging assumptions about inflation, expertise, first-mover advantage, contract law, and credit risk.
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Ending the Sisyphus Cycle (and Follow-on Implications)

Saudi-Iran cooperation and new oil routes could reduce regional tensions, lower energy prices, and reshape investor risk.
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Changing Assumptions and Follow-on Results

Drones are reshaping military power, exposing limits in Russia and Iran while potentially deterring China over Taiwan.
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