Bank Runs and Mortgage Boycotts – The Face of China’s New Economic Crisis
In the west, current events stories featuring China tend to focus on geopolitical risk in Taiwan, its Covid Zero strategy, or even the historic...
What is going on in Sri Lanka – A Sign of Things To Come
Protesters occupying the head of the government’s residence. Skyrocketing inflation. Fuel prices more than doubling. Food and medicine shortages. The president of Asia’s oldest...
This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...
US inflation is rising. In March, US inflation rose to 8.5%, compared to 2.6% one year earlier. We can expect that number to keep...
This Is What Happens In An Economic Crisis – Lessons from History and What...
This article on the 2022 Economic Crisis was broken into two parts because we all know the other guys can’t handle reading more than...
A Cloud of Devastation Moves Across East Africa
The crises are accumulating in East Africa, with no end in sight. The famine in East Africa is the latest and deadliest pinnacle of...
The Worst Global Food Crisis Since World War II – We Are Entering Phase...
In my 2019 book How the World Ends: Understanding the Growing Chaos, I outlined three core crises found at the root of almost every...
None of It Worked
When the coronavirus pandemic first began to surge, I posited a thought on one of the podcast episodes in those early days. How could...
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
This book is in the lead for my best read of 2022 so far. For those interested in international relations, geopolitics, energy, and just...
Watching A Crisis Unfold in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s security forces confronted protesters over the weekend, raising alarms of more instability in the Asian island nation. The country is facing a...
How America’s Best and Brightest Set the Stage for Vladimir Putin’s Rise
This weekend President Biden “forcefully” called for regime change in Russia. Speaking of Vladimir Putin, the US President said, “For God’s sake, this man...