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 Yen Problem

Currency intervention moves a price. It does not replace the market mechanism. The yen is now the clearest live test of that distinction, and the outcome matters for how every government defends a currency it does not fully control.

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Publication record

All work in Capital Markets

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

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Memo

Jackson Hole and the Conditions for Credible Discretion

Kevin Warsh has pulled the Federal Reserve back from forward guidance. His first Jackson Hole address must show how a more restrained communications regime will preserve a clear monetary-policy rule.

Date
Aug 26, 2026
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Free
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11 min
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Essay

The Yen Problem

Currency intervention moves a price. It does not replace the market mechanism. The yen is now the clearest live test of that distinction, and the outcome matters for how every government defends a currency it does not fully control.

Date
Aug 14, 2026
Access
Free
Read
5 min
04
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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