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A ban on American crude or diesel exports isn't going to improve energy security; if anything, it will reduce domestic production. The problem lies in...
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The AI race is in full swing. China is chasing digital sovereignty, but there's a glaring hole in that plan...it doesn't have the advanced manufacturi...
With Ukrainian attacks limiting Russian refining capacity and the Persian Gulf conflict restricting exports through Hormuz and the Red Sea, a diesel s...
The recent series of U.S.-Venezuela oil deals is not quite as significant as it was made out to be. Join the Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Pe...
Hear me out...everyone has been yelling about AI the past few days, and the reality is that everyone is probably right, but it probably doesn't really...
Everyone is always so worked up about bear attacks while I'm out backpacking. The problem is that people are referencing the rise in bear attacks in J...
Cobalt is critical for modern batteries, but with over half of global production coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo, it represents one of th...
The U.S. military has been seizing Iranian shadow fleet vessels at the instruction of the Trump administration. But until now, they couldn't do anythi...
As the global order breaks apart, countries and communities that can incorporate the learnings from early Rome can weather the storm much better than...
Japan has long been a pioneer in methodologies and technologies to save society from a demographic crisis. Japan's next endeavour is developing AI-pow...
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We discussed the problems with the Republicans; now let's move on to the Democrats. They've got a different set of problems, but make no mistake, they...
Trump has adopted a leadership style similar to that of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That means power is solely concentrated around him, and the par...
On the whole, most presidential administrations have limited awareness of things like demographics, trade, geopolitics, and industrial policy. Natural...
Global trade was once fragmented into many regional economies. Goods like spices traveled overland through countless intermediaries before reaching th...
Project Vault, the Trump administration's initiative to stockpile critical minerals, is just a small step in the right direction. Sure, buying mineral...
If China and Russia are so buddy-buddy now, why don't they build pipelines across Siberia to bypass the Persian Gulf? There are more issues than I can...
Ukraine has created a system to determine which ships belong to the shadow fleet and which belong to one of the major companies. By sourcing ship iden...
