Sitemap - 2025 - Leading Thoughts: Geopolitics, Economics & Markets

Next Year's Wars

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Deal or No Deal?

How to Invest in America's New National Security Strategy

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

The Runaway Train

The AI Bubble Is Coming, But It's Not Here Yet

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Buy or Sell the S&P 500?

Ukraine's 'Trump Tower' Test

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Saudi Arabia's Investments in America Are a Favor - for Saudi Arabia

Can America Sharpen Its Tools of Economic Statecraft?

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

The Data Will Return, But They'll Be Messy

Russia's Territorial Gains Won't Compensate for Losing Trump

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

What Democrats Can't Say

America's "New [Insert Adjectives Here] Global Trade Order"

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

A New Front in the Trade War

What Xi Jinping Is Thinking This Week

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Too Many Eggs in One Basket

Do You Believe?

This Week’s Chart, Next Week’s Markets

Why You Should Never Write About the "Postwar Rules-Based Order"

Asia's Newest Leaders Face Fresh Obstacles to Reconciliation

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Has the Middle East Hit Bottom?

A Tale of Two Colonies

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Bond Investors Need a Pep Talk More Than the Troops

AI Won't Solve America's Budget Crisis

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets (29ix25)

How UNGA Matters for Investors

First They Came for the Tech Billionaires, and I Didn't Speak Up Because I Was Not a Tech Billionaire

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Where Will Stephen Miran Place His Dot?

Why Is Trade Uncertainty Heading Higher?

This Week's Chart, Next Week's Markets

Why This Week's Euro Crisis Isn't a Crisis

Why This Week's Euro Crisis Isn't a Crisis

Trump's Ukraine Diplomacy Has Done More Than You May Think

Chart of the Week

Is this "Axis of Evil" an Axis?

Seven Questions Every Investor Should Ask

The Fed Chair Search Widens; What If Trump Calls You?

Imagine What a Ukraine Deal Might Include

What You Don't Understand About Trump's Trade Victories

Crypto, Innovation and ... the Deep State

Why is Xi Jinping Mad at Europe?

Crypto Week: Congress Hits the Accelerator and the Brake at the Same Time

Bracing for Escalation in Ukraine

Ready for "TACO" Tuesday

Are Trade Wars an 'Aberration' in an Alliance?

Will Anything Stop This Market?

Is NATO Still a Buy?

So much for the "Axis of Evil"

Middle East Shocks Beyond the Middle East

Pressure ... Pain ... Ouch!

More Than Just the Yips

You Can Be a Trade Negotiator, Too!

Falling Apart at the Seams

Investors Need Their Eyes Wide Open

Newton's First Law of International Trade

Europe Searches for the Rules of the New World Order

They're Really Mad at Us

Searching for the Trade War Winners

Who Really Has the Cards on Ukraine?

The World Assesses America’s Policy Earthquake

If You Sell in May and Go Away, When Will You Come Back?

What Could a U.S.-China Deal Look Like?

Trump Presents America's New Business Model on First Earnings Call (Ticker: USA)

When Does the Indispensable Nation Become Less Indispensable?

Abracadabra! See the Markets Soar!

Get Mad! But Don't Get Even!

Why Putin Is Dragging His Feet

Guns, Chips, Volts & More: How to Invest in a Troubled World

Even "Dirty Fifteen" Is Too Many

Advice for the New CEO - from the Old CEO

There's a Lull in Every Storm

The Latest from Xi Jinping's Diary

The World Is Not Enough!

How to Test Putin on Peace

Trade Agenda for a Zero-Sum World

When the Ground Suddenly Shifts ...

Why Russia Won't Abandon China

"There's a Horse Loose in the Hospital!"

Will Europe Hang Together or Hang Separately?

Should You Invest in Europe Without America?

Wolf!

All Geopolitics is Local

A Man, A Plan, A Canal - Panama!

"Kill a Chicken to Scare the Monkeys"

Why DeepShock Makes My Brain Hurt

America First Trade Policy on Jeopardy!

As The World Turns

"Hello, Vlad? It's Don"

Scott Bessent Bingo!

Five Answers Investors Need to Get the Rest of the Decade Right