(Geo)politics

Nobody Is Seeing This Geopolitical Crisis Coming: One that Drag China, Russia And U.S. Into Conflict

What if one of the most important geopolitical stories in the world isn’t Ukraine, Taiwan or the Middle East?

What if a crisis is quietly developing that could eventually place the United States, China, and Russia on opposing sides of the same confrontation?

Almost nobody is talking about it.

Yet over recent months, something significant appears to be taking shape. [read more]

(Geo)politics

The Oil Market Is Reaching a Breaking Point

For years, analysts talked about it as a worst-case scenario and now it’s real. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed and the consequences are spreading far beyond the Middle East. Oil which powers the global economy is being forced to confront a scenario it has feared for decades. The question is no longer whether this conflict will affect the world economy. The question is how much and have we now reached a tipping point? [read more]