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Comprehensive multi-angle exploration

Commodities
The Bimodal Gold Trajectory: From Sovereign Lifeboat to
Why the "Store of Value" thesis holds for 2030 but collapses by 2050.
2026-02-28
Macro
The Great Liquidation: Why Financial Repression Is the
The path forward is not a hard default, but a decade of negative real interest rates designed to transfer wealth from savers to the sovereign.
2026-02-28
Market Outlook
The Liquidity Mirage: Why Non-Bank Lending and
Structural fragility in shadow banking and insurance markets will override the "inventory shortage" narrative.
2026-02-28
Bitcoin
The Bitcoin End-Game: Regulatory Preemption Will Cap 2035
Institutional adoption is failing the race against regulatory clarity, forcing a reversion to energy-cost floors.
2026-02-28
Bitcoin
Bitcoin 2026: The Liquidity Trap and the Sovereign AI
As the asset stalls at $68,200, the primary threat is no longer regulation, but the resource competition from the AI computational arms race.
2026-02-28
Investment Strategy
The Sovereign-Physical Pivot: Investment Strategy for a
Why the "Energy-Compute Nexus" and non-aligned hard assets will outperform the 60/40 portfolio in a year of structural inflation and private market
2026-02-28
Macro
The 2026 Policy Effectiveness Trap: Why Demographic Gravity
Demographic exhaustion in the G7 will render monetary stimulus inert by Q4 2026, forcing a repricing of the "central bank put."
2026-02-28
Monetary Policy
The Fed’s Liquidity Trap: Why Repo Spreads, Not CPI, Will
Inflation data has become noise; Funding stress and Treasury General Account depletion are the signal.
2026-02-28
Monetary Policy
The ECB’s Liquidity Trap: Rate Cuts Will Inflate Assets,
Structural fragmentation and measurement gaps mean monetary easing will widen the core-periphery wealth divide rather than restore the 2% inflation target.
2026-02-28
Commodities
The Silver Capex Trap: Why the 800-Million-Ounce Deficit
The divergence between speculative premiums and industrial reality suggests a price compression to $65–72/oz through 2027.
2026-02-28
Commodities
Platinum Price Forecast 2029–2031: Why Miner Behavior
The structural floor is rising, but the hydrogen demand thesis has collapsed.
2026-02-28
Commodities
The Copper Inventory Paradox: Why Structural Shortage Will
The "super-cycle" thesis is colliding with a recycling price governor and geopolitical fragility.
2026-02-28
Commodities
The Gold "Bid Cliff": Forecasting the $4,600–$5,300 Range
Why the convergence of central bank accumulation and retail exhaustion signals a price ceiling, not a super-cycle.
2026-02-28
Asia Pacific
The Taiwan Chronology: From Silicon Shield to Stranded Asset
A strategic timeline of erosion, abandonment, and administrative absorption (2030–2050)
2026-02-28
Middle East
The 14-Day Horizon: Why Limited U.S. Support Guarantees
In a conflict without strategic depth, the restriction of American aid paradoxically forces Israel to escalate from conventional defense to infrastructure
2026-02-28
Military Tech
Thermal Sovereignty: Why the Laser Weapon Revolution is an
The transition to directed energy will reclassify warfare from a logistics contest of industrial mass to a physics contest of heat dissipation.
2026-02-28
Future Warfare
The Algorithmic Kill-Chain: Why Autonomous Manufacturing
The era of the "exquisite" platform is over; the future belongs to mass-produced autonomy and analog resilience.
2026-02-28
Latin America
The Pax Narco Strategy: Institutionalizing Mexico’s Cartels
Analysis suggests the only path to stability lies in state-sanctioned monopoly and economic decriminalization, not military escalation.
2026-02-28
Currency
The Dollar’s Geopolitical Moat: Why Reflexive Traps, Not
Rising alternatives like mBridge face a liquidity paradox that will likely entrench US dollar dominance through 2035 despite eroding fiscal fundamentals.
2026-02-28
Currency
The Death of the BRICS Unit and the Rise of the Hidden
Why the much-hyped gold-backed currency is a strategic decoy for a more dangerous fragmentation of global finance.
2026-02-28
Global Economy
The Fragmentation Trap: Why BRICS Pay Reshapes Finance
The greatest threat to the dollar is not a successor currency, but the disintegration of unified global settlement.
2026-02-28
Supply Chain
The Death of Just-in-Time: Multipolar Logistics and the
Why the era of "efficiency" has collapsed into a regime of strategic redundancy and necessary waste.
2026-02-28
Grand Strategy
The Great Dispersion: Why a 'Weeks-Long' Iran Strike Risks
While Washington prepares for kinetic options in the Middle East and redefines its European commitments, the "Axis of Attrition" is forcing the U.S. into
2026-02-28
Security Architecture
Munich 2026: The Rise of "Subscription Sovereignty" and the
The United States is replacing treaty-based alliances with a mercantilist "pay-to-play" security architecture, driven by the privatization of state
2026-02-28
Global Trade
The Great Decoupling Myth: How "Grey Trade" and Dark
With U.S. tariff revenue up 300% despite falling import volumes, global commerce has shifted from efficient integration to evasive "jurisdictional
2026-02-28
Technology
The Maginot Line of Chips: Why $39 Billion in Subsidies
Beyond the "Fab Gap" to Structural Deterrence
2026-02-28
Tech War
The Great Silicon Divergence: Why NVIDIA’s ‘China Gap’
The structural shift from "export blockade" to "intelligence harvesting" creates a false signal of sustainable demand.
2026-02-28
Middle East
Prediction: Why U.S. Will Strike Iran by Q2 2026
Analysis predicts a 65% chance of limited U.S. strikes on Iran by April 2026, driven by fiscal constraints and domestic politics.
2026-02-28
Global Conflict
The Fragmented Global War: Assessing the Shift from Mutual
Why the probability of a "Series of Interconnected Theater Wars" (SITW) now exceeds the risk of total annihilation.
2026-02-28
War Games
The Terminal Geometry of World War III: From Algorithmic
A liquidity crisis, not a border dispute, initiates a systemic seizure that ends globalization in 90 minutes.
2026-02-28