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    Finance

    The Software Moat is Evaporating

    The Champagne Has Gone FlatThe moat is gone. Private equity spent a decade buying software companies with high switching costs. Claude Code just lowered the…

    by Lena Petrova February 15, 2026
    Finance

    The Backyard Arbitrage of the American Suburb

    by Elias Vance February 15, 2026
    Finance

    The SECURE 2.0 Mirage and the Death of the Emergency Buffer

    by Chloe Summers February 15, 2026
    Finance

    The Great Software Unwinding Gains Momentum

    by Zara Khan February 15, 2026
    The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Rules of Global Trade
    Economy

    The Supreme Court Just Rewrote the Rules of Global Trade

    The Gavel Falls on Executive OverreachThe gavel fell. Markets flinched. The constitutional wall between trade policy and executive whim just…

    by Kenji ItoFebruary 17, 2026
    The Illusion of Export Gains in a Fragmented Dollar Regime
    Finance

    The Illusion of Export Gains in a Fragmented Dollar Regime

    The greenback is bleeding. Markets are reopening today after the Presidents’ Day lull to a reality that mainstream analysts refuse…

    by Elias VanceFebruary 17, 2026
    The Energy Wall Breaking the AI Narrative
    Finance

    The Energy Wall Breaking the AI Narrative

    The grid is screamingSilicon Valley promised a world of frictionless intelligence. They delivered a demand spike that traditional utilities cannot…

    by Zara KhanFebruary 17, 2026
    The Federal Reserve Trap and the Illusion of a Soft Landing
    Economy

    The Federal Reserve Trap and the Illusion of a Soft Landing

    The Ghost of VolatilityMarkets are paralyzed. They wait for the FOMC minutes. The silence from the Eccles Building is deafening.…

    by Zara KhanFebruary 17, 2026
    The Fragile Cost of Mexican Coastal Resilience
    Economy

    The Fragile Cost of Mexican Coastal Resilience

    The Resilience ParadoxThe sand is shifting. Capital is fleeing. Mexico faces a liquidity trap where biodiversity is the only collateral…

    by Chloe SummersFebruary 17, 2026
    The Mexican Peso Finds a Floor in Biodiversity
    Economy

    The Mexican Peso Finds a Floor in Biodiversity

    The Sovereign Risk of Salt WaterThe Mexican Peso is under pressure. Banxico holds rates at 10.25 percent. Coastal assets are…

    by Kenji ItoFebruary 17, 2026
    Sovereign AI Hits the Hard Wall of Physical Reality
    Industry

    Sovereign AI Hits the Hard Wall of Physical Reality

    The Megawatt BottleneckNational pride is expensive. Governments worldwide are racing to build sovereign AI clusters. They want data independence. They…

    by Kenji ItoFebruary 17, 2026
    Nicaragua Leverages Beijing to Blunt the Impact of Washington Sanctions
    Economy

    Nicaragua Leverages Beijing to Blunt the Impact of Washington Sanctions

    The sanctions have failed. Washington’s economic toolkit is proving ineffective against the Ortega-Murillo regime. Despite a decade of escalating Treasury…

    by Chloe SummersFebruary 17, 2026
    Economy

    Tehran Signals Through the Periscope

    The Risk Premium ReawakensCrude is climbing. Tehran is drilling. The market is flinching. Brent crude futures surged past $94 per…

    by Chloe SummersFebruary 17, 2026
    The New Build Monopoly on American Housing
    Economy

    The New Build Monopoly on American Housing

    The Resale Market is DeadInventory has vanished. Existing homeowners are trapped by golden handcuffs. They refuse to trade a 3…

    by Lena PetrovaFebruary 17, 2026

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    Finance

    The Software Moat is Evaporating

    by Lena Petrova February 15, 2026
    Economy

    The Dutch Hospitality Squeeze and the Illusion of Recovery

    by Chloe Summers February 15, 2026
    Finance

    The Backyard Arbitrage of the American Suburb

    by Elias Vance February 15, 2026
    Finance

    The SECURE 2.0 Mirage and the Death of the Emergency Buffer

    by Chloe Summers February 15, 2026
    Economy

    The Goldilocks Myth Faces a Brutal Reality Check

    by Lena Petrova February 15, 2026
    Finance

    The Great Software Unwinding Gains Momentum

    by Zara Khan February 15, 2026

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