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The Quiet Flattening of Global Capital: What's Slowing the Money
Cross-border capital flows have plateaued for years, and protectionists had nothing to do with it. The real causes are stranger and more consequential.
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The Redemption Crunch Threatening Private Credit's Retail Ambitions
Retail investors are queuing to exit private credit funds, and the liquidity structures meant to protect them may not be up to the task.
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Kabul Hospital Strike Deepens a Fracture Between Pakistan and the Taliban
A strike on a Kabul hospital has exposed the deep fracture between Pakistan and the Taliban, a relationship built on miscalculation now nearing its breaking point.
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Trump's Cuba Gambit: What 'Taking Cuba in Some Form' Actually Signals
Trump says he'll have the 'honour' of 'taking Cuba in some form' — and the ambiguity is the whole point.
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Cuba's Grid Has Collapsed. The Blackout Is Just the Most Visible Symptom.
Cuba's total grid collapse left 11 million without power, but the real story is the feedback loop of failure that makes the next blackout inevitable.
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The Private Capital Reckoning Wall Street Keeps Refusing to See
Davidson Kempner's Tony Yoseloff says private equity stress is already here. Wall Street's slow reckoning could make the correction far worse.
17 Mar 2026
Shale's Impossible Position: Caught Between Trump's Iran Hawks and Cheap Gas Promises
Shale producers need price stability to drill, but the White House is pulling oil markets in two directions at once.
17 Mar 2026
The Strait That Could Outlast the War: Hormuz and the Leverage Iran Won't Forget
Iran has demonstrated that threatening Hormuz doesn't require closing it — and that lesson will reshape global energy politics long after this conflict ends.
17 Mar 2026
Iran's Security Architecture Fractures as Israel Claims Killing of Ali Larijani
The killing of Ali Larijani removes not just a man but the institutional function that kept Iran's competing power centers from flying apart.
17 Mar 2026
Iran's Oil Windfall and the Quiet Bargain Washington Is Willing to Make
The Treasury Secretary just admitted the US will tolerate Iranian oil exports to protect supply — and the implications reach far beyond Iran.
17 Mar 2026
Gulf Airspace Under Siege: How Regional Conflict Is Grounding the World's Busiest Hub
Three of the world's busiest aviation hubs are constrained at once, and the cascading effects will reach far beyond delayed flights.
17 Mar 2026
Blue Owl Pulled the Plug on Century Capital. Now Its Founder Wants a Second Act.
Blue Owl pulled its funding from UK bridging lender Century Capital after finding irregularities. Now its founder wants to start over.
17 Mar 2026
Stephen Smith's Economist Stake Is a Bet on Prestige in the Age of Noise
Stephen Smith's 27% stake in The Economist is more than a media deal. It's a signal about who controls trusted information and why.
17 Mar 2026
BNP Paribas Is Betting Europe's Private Credit Boom Has Its Own Rules
BNP Paribas says Europe's private credit boom is structurally different from America's. The logic is compelling, and the risks are hiding in plain sight.
