Leading Thoughts: Geopolitics, Economics & Markets

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EM & geopolitics

A glimpse of Greece without the noise.

Alphabet Soup simplifies complex financial policy topics and gives readers practical solutions. Along the way we'll poke some light-hearted fun at the many unappetizing acronyms across the world of global financial policy!

Helping Leaders Achieve Balance

Hard National Security Choices

Clear, concise, and forward-looking geopolitical risk insights.

News from and about Russia

Leveraging more than 30 years on Wall Street with extensive geopolitical and geoeconomic experience, Frank offers clients the opportunity to not only understand political risk but how to succeed in these challenging settings.

Economics and other interesting stuff

Start your day with pragmatic takes on politics and public policy.

A bunch of unedited stuff about international relations, American politics, political economy, the marketplace of ideas, and popular culture written by this Drezner guy

One of the best ways to learn to make sense of money, work, communication, production, distribution, and more. Betting that in the course of human things the future must resemble even if it does not reflect the past, people being much the same over time.

Even amid ongoing crisis, economic shifts are reshaping the Middle East. We track the forces driving this transition—investment flows, business deals, reconstruction bets, and the policy tools—carrots and sticks—shaping the region in real time.

Note quotidiane di metà giornata per comprendere la politica internazionale e i suoi sviluppi.

The untold story of my grandfather Emeterio Asinas, a World War II hero who fought valiantly in the Philippines for the US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). You'll receive a short post on the anniversary of each important day of his service.

The world out there

sovereign debt, geopolitics, anecdotes, miscellaneous thoughts

A former NATO Ambassador’s lens on a world in turmoil—and the strategy America needs to navigate it.

Stepping away from groupthink, with a focus on economics and innovation

A newsletter for people who want to defeat Donald Trump and MAGA extremism from a former Senior Advisor to Barack Obama

My personal Substack

Get smarter about China

Macro Mornings is a Top 1% investing newsletter globally, delivering investment strategies and macroeconomic trend analysis. Get weekly updates with clear and concise summaries of the most important market news.

A daily geopolitical intelligence brief for business leaders and investors — written by former diplomats, focused on what has changed, why it matters, and what to watch next.

A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.

Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, former Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs. All opinions are my own. Email: robinjbrooks@gmail.com.

Anecdotes, appreciations, and appropriately cynical takes with a foreign service slant. (Subtitle intended to clarify confusion and make it lightning clear where I'm coming from.)

Notes on economics and more

Technology, politics, supply chains, chips, AI, economics, history. And whatever else is on my mind.

My personal Substack

My personal Substack