The Wooden Nickel

by The BlackSummit Team | Aug 5, 2025 | Wooden Nickel

The Wooden Nickel is a collection of roughly a handful of recent topics that have caught our attention. Here you’ll find current, open-ended thoughts. We wish to use this piece as a way to think out loud in public rather than make formal proclamations or projections....

Carbon Market News Roundup

by The BlackSummit Team | Aug 1, 2025 | Carbon Market News Roundup

We’re pleased to announce that the Fundamental Analytics Carbon Services website is now live—explore insights and tools driving carbon compliance and market access here. The FACS platform, linked to ICE, enables direct EUA trading and streamlined onboarding...

Geopolitics & the Day After

by The BlackSummit Team | Jul 31, 2025 | Geopolitics & the Day After

Geopolitical Concerns explores how Gaza’s deepening humanitarian collapse and protracted conflicts in Ukraine and Taiwan highlight the breakdown of rapid deterrence strategies, calling for a shift toward sustained defense planning and urgent humanitarian action....

Weekly Market Update

by The BlackSummit Team | Jul 26, 2025 | Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global Equities Make Gains Global equities made gains this week amid hopes that trade tensions are easing. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended the week up 1.45% and 1.07%, respectively, and the Dow Jones increased 0.94% on the week. The U.S....

Geopolitics & the Day After

by The BlackSummit Team | Jul 24, 2025 | Geopolitics & the Day After

Geopolitical Concerns explores how President Trump’s second term has triggered a global geopolitical realignment, with Europe forging independent security alliances, corruption undermining EU stability, U.S. foreign aid withdrawal deepening crises in...