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    The Yuan–Gold Paradigm Shift: China’s Alternative to the Petrodollar

    August 16, 2026

    For decades, discussions about de-dollarisation have focused on the wrong question: which currency could replace the US dollar? The euro…

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    Japan, Energy, and the Treasury Market: How an Oil Shock Could Accelerate the Return of Financial Repression

    August 5, 2026

    The conventional way to think about an oil shock is through inflation, household purchasing power, and corporate margins. A sufficiently…

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    From Pax Americana to the Resilience Economy

    July 29, 2026

    The Hidden Security Architecture Behind Globalization—and What Happens When It Breaks For most of modern economic history, globalization has been…

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    When Higher Interest Rates Become Inflationary: The Fiscal-Dominance Paradox

    July 22, 2026

    In a heavily indebted economy, the textbook relationship between interest rates and inflation can begin to change. Raising rates still…

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    The Return of the Physical World: Why Energy, Metals, Minerals, Fertilizer and Food May Define the Next Decade

    June 25, 2026

    For most of the last forty years, the global economy has been built on an extraordinary assumption: that the physical…

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    The Emerging Gold-Renminbi System: China’s Quiet Challenge to Dollar Hegemony

    June 25, 2026

    For decades, discussions about the future of the international monetary system have centered on a single question: What could replace…

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    The Flat Tax That Tried to Reinvent Capitalism

    June 4, 2026

    Why Some Economists Believe Simpler Taxes Could Create More Growth Most tax debates focus on a familiar question: Who should…

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    The End of the Easy Money Era

    May 25, 2026

    Why the World May Be Entering a New Economic Regime For most investors under the age of sixty, the economic…

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    The End of the “Demand Destruction” Playbook?

    May 6, 2026

    Commodities, Energy Scarcity, and the Return of Structural Inflation For much of the post-Global Financial Crisis era, investors became conditioned…

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    The 2026 Oil Shock: Inflation, Fragmentation, and the Return of Hard Constraints

    April 13, 2026

    A Shock That Is Structural, Not Cyclical The current oil shock is not a classic supply disruption that fades with…

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    The Strait of Hormuz Dilemma: Power, Energy, and an Irreversible Turning Point

    March 27, 2026

    A System Built on Invisible Guarantees The United States is approaching a moment that is less about policy choice and…

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    Eggs, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease: What the Science Actually Says in 2026

    March 26, 2026

    For decades, eggs have lived a strange double life in nutrition science. Once vilified as a driver of heart disease,…

    Economics

    Oil Shocks, Policy Mistakes, and the Risk of a Second Inflation Wave (Part II)

    March 4, 2026

    Oil, Fiscal Dominance, and the Return of Stagflation? Why Today May Resemble the 1970s More Than the Pre-GFC Economy (Part…

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    Oil Shocks, Policy Mistakes, and the Risk of a Second Inflation Wave (Part I)

    March 3, 2026

    A Historical Perspective on a Possible Macro Turning Point History does not repeat mechanically — but it rhymes in structure.…

    Materials

    Microsoft Stored a Movie on Glass — And It Could Last Centuries

    February 19, 2026

    A first prototype of what could become the future of long-term data storage has moved from theory to reality. Microsoft…

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    • The Yuan–Gold Paradigm Shift: China’s Alternative to the Petrodollar
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    • From Pax Americana to the Resilience Economy
    • When Higher Interest Rates Become Inflationary: The Fiscal-Dominance Paradox
    • The Return of the Physical World: Why Energy, Metals, Minerals, Fertilizer and Food May Define the Next Decade
    • The Emerging Gold-Renminbi System: China’s Quiet Challenge to Dollar Hegemony
    • The Flat Tax That Tried to Reinvent Capitalism
    • The End of the Easy Money Era
    • The End of the “Demand Destruction” Playbook?
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