Six things to keep you awake at night | GlobalPost

Posted by Matt in July 26th, 2009 | 1 comment

Published in Geopolitical, Abyss, Economic Recovery, Geopolitical, Global Crises, Global Economics, Recession, Relative Stability, World Leaders

Think the global economic recovery is upon us? Here’s what could postpone joy.
Even if the worst is now be behind us, it is worth remembering that geopolitical dangers, too, could send the world’s economies tumbling back toward the abyss. Here is a quick ranking of six raging global crises which could set the world’s hopes [...]

The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing

Posted by Matt in March 25th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Economy, Financial, Geopolitical, Alfred Hitchcock, Anticipation, Bell Curve, Black Swans, Conquest, Donald Rumsfeld, Eurasia Group, Financial Crisis, Gems, Geopolitical, Global Financial Crisis, Global Politics, Good Job, Ian Bremmer, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Political Futures, Political Knowledge, Political Risk Analysis, Private Army, Russian Government, Slew, Staid World, Strategic Investing, Subtitle, Swans

The Fat Tail (Political Futures Mar 09)

The Rise of Global Political Risk

Please join Ian Bremmer as he discusses his book The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge Through Strategic Investing.
A helpful look at how global politics can affect investing
By Edward Durney (San Francisco)
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I’ve read many books on investing. But none [...]

Free Intelligence Sources

Posted by Matt in August 14th, 2008 | 1 comment

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China and Russia’s Geographic Divide

Posted by Matt in July 22nd, 2008 | 1 comment

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By Peter Zeihan
Since the Soviet fall, Russian generals, intelligence chiefs and foreign policy personnel have often waxed philosophic about the inevitability of a global alliance to hem in U.S. power — often using the rhetoric of a “multipolar world.” Central in all of these plans has been not only the implied leadership of Russia, but [...]

Europe is a geopolitical dwarf

Posted by Matt in May 22nd, 2008 | no comment

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Yet, even though it has an economy comparable with America’s, it stands as a political dwarf in responding to the rapidly changing geopolitical environment. The combination of slavishly following the US lead (with the possible exception of the invasion of Iraq), its reluctance to contemplate badly needed strategic initiatives (as in the Middle East) or [...]

Geopolitical trends: The empires strike back

Posted by Matt in March 27th, 2008 | no comment

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ON THE face of it, these two books are about the same thing: the great trends in geopolitics as the economic power of Asia grows and as the world grimaces at America in the aftermath of the Iraq war. Yet they could hardly be more different. Parag Khanna’s is a long, complicated book on the [...]