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Polyculture and Resilience

Polyculture and Resilience

The dominant market momentum for nearly 40 years has been a Faustian trade: leverage long government bonds and short idiosyncratic risk. This trade, supported by monolithic credit and currency regimes, has reached its breaking point. The United States will no longer...
Financial Irish Potato Famine

Financial Irish Potato Famine

In the 1840’s, Ireland imported infected fertilizer from Peru produced cheaply by indigenous slaves. Potato monocropping meant that the crop was not resilient enough to the infection, and half of the country’s production was wiped out in under four years. Famine and...
A New Breed of Investor

A New Breed of Investor

Since 1990, global growth has been a product of American strategic, technological and financial largess directed abroad. Markets have been driven by convergence and consolidation in interest rates, currencies, technology, capital flows, politics, and way of life....