Research area

Capital Markets

Capital markets determine which strategies survive contact with funding costs, liquidity stress, risk premia, and the price of time.

Allocation layer · System in view

Funding costs, liquidity, leverage, risk premia, and the price signals that decide which strategies survive.

Markets are treated as a strategic sensor: they reveal stress, mispricing, and constraint before it becomes visible in output data.

What this theme watches
  1. What the market is actually pricing
  2. Where leverage is changing behavior
  3. When capital costs alter institutional choices
Essay

The Arsenal as Portfolio

Prime contractors are acquiring options on the future industrial base with a rounding error of capital, and the sequence rather than the sum is what should concern policymakers.

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All work in Capital Markets

Reports and memos ranked by publication date with content type, access, and read-time context.

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Essay

The Arsenal as Portfolio

Prime contractors are acquiring options on the future industrial base with a rounding error of capital, and the sequence rather than the sum is what should concern policymakers.

Date
Jul 27, 2026
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Free
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13 min
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Essay

The AI Arms Race Is Becoming a Contest for Industrial Power

The real question is which company can turn capital expenditure into a self-reinforcing system of lower computing costs, stronger models, broader distribution, higher utilization, and recurring revenue.

Date
Jul 23, 2026
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Free
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8 min
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Essay

The Fed's Rate Swing

The Fed held rates in June, quietly adjusting its easing preference.

Date
Jul 16, 2026
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Free
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8 min
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Report

The Capital Layer of Deterrence

The proposed Defense, Security and Resilience Bank shows how sovereign guarantees, capital markets, and industrial capacity are becoming the connective tissue of allied security.

Date
Jun 30, 2026
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Free
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16 min

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