Geopolitical Challenges and Statecraft

President Biden traveled across Europe last week with the goal of strengthening relations with European allies and renewing multilateral collaboration on critical global issues such as climate change and trade policy. In our summaries this week, we review two...

Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global equities tumbleGlobal equities tumbled this week as the Federal Reserve revised its inflation expectations. The S&P 500 closed 1.91% down while the Dow Jones posted its worst week since October, losing 3.45%. The Nasdaq also dropped,...

The Day After & the Era of Transformation

Here is our take on the articles summarized below:  Classical liberalism – advocating civil liberties and economic freedom under a set of properly defined laws – is one of the foundational ideas of the American experiment. For this week’s summaries,...

Bundling and Unbundling

In the mid 1990s Netscape Communications, one of the early darlings of the dot-com craze, embarked on a roadshow to meet with prospective investors prior to its IPO. In its last meeting, and already late to board the plane from London back to the States, management...

Weekly Market Update

Global Market News Global equities make slight gainsGlobal equities made slight gains again this week. The S&P 500 closed up 0.41% while the Dow Jones lost 0.80%. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq jumped 1.85%. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury fell several basis points to...