A forces‑for‑2027 forecast looking to the end of the decade Download this PDF here. In politics and markets, the decisive contest is often the one being played above the visible struggle. Elections, earnings and summit communiqués are the surface game—the real action lies in the metagame, the contest over rules,
Rebirth, not decline “We have not chosen this time.” – Oswald Spengler Download this PDF here. The rebirth has begun America reaches its 250th anniversary not as a fallen hegemon, but as the dominant centre of global hard power, monetary power, and frontier innovation. It still sits astride the world’s
How Epic Fury can deliver a peace dividend “Mastery itself was the prize of the venture.” – Daniel Yergin, on Winston Churchill’s 1913 argument Download this PDF here. Mastery of energy, again Winston Churchill, as first lord of the Admiralty, tied Britain’s fate to Persian oil. United States President Donald
April Market Insights: Bretton Woods 2.0, the New Great Game, and Trump March 31, 2026 Here begins the Great Game Download this PDF here. U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term is not just another burst of tariff theatre; it is the opening move in a new great game over energy,
March Market Insights: There is no Bronze Medal March 4, 2026 AI capex is America’s industrial rearmament “There’s only two cultures that are going to win in the next year. It’s going to be us or China.” – Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Download this PDF here. “There’s only two
February Market Insights: Fortress America and the Colony Next Door February 4, 2026 We are living through historic times Justice is only in question between equals; for the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must. – Thucydides, ancient Greek historian Download this PDF here. Historians
January Market Insights: The 2026 Market Forecast January 6, 2026 The baton is being passed “The history of markets is one of overreaction in both directions.” – Peter Bernstein Download this PDF here. When the cycle breaks History does not move in straight lines. Markets ricochet between excess and restraint
December Market Insights: 2026 and the King Dollar Revival December 4, 2025 Why Trump’s policies will power America’s financial supremacy in a multipolar era “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” – Mark Twain Download this PDF here. Rumours of the U.S. dollar’s decline are as persistent as they
Highlights from the Federal Budget 2025 November 5, 2025 Download this article as a PDF. On November 4, 2025, Finance Minister and National Revenue Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the much-anticipated 2025 Federal Budget (Budget 2025). With no spring budget earlier this year, Canadians have been eager for insights into the
November Market Insights: Wealth In A Capex Supercycle October 30, 2025 Fuller’s energy-intelligence fusion, McLuhan’s tool-building refrain, and in search of the Holy Grail “Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.” – attributed to Buckminster Fuller Download this PDF here. Wealth
October Market Insights: Trump, Carney and the Western Awakening October 1, 2025 A new era for Canada is about to begin “I read in a newspaper that I was to be received with all the honors customarily rendered to a foreign ruler. I am grateful for the honors; but something
September Market Insights: Bull Markets, Peace Dividends, and the Federal Reserve’s Next War September 4, 2025 Investing at the crossroads of history “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” – Francis Bacon, The Essays (1597) Download this PDF here. The edge of transformation Bacon’s wisdom, that true
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