This week, there were local elections in the UK 5,066 English councilors for 136 English local authorities, and six directly elected mayors in England. Most of these seats in England were last up for election in 2022. No local elections were held in the rest of the UK, other than two by-elections in Wales. However,…
At a recent well-attended Monday Club event in New York with panelists Tara Hariharan, Managing Director and Head of Global Macro Research at NWI Management LP, Tinatin Japaridze, Director of Geopolitics at Anadyr Horizon, and Matt Aks, Senior Strategist at Evercore ISI, there were a few interesting takeaways. In the current geopolitical situation with increased…
AI is suddenly everywhere and it will change what you do, how you do it and what information will ultimately float to you, setting the stage for the decisions you make. Artificial intelligence has been compared to earlier technological transformations, from the steam engine to the internet. Yet the analogy oversimplifies. Previous transformations essentially reshaped…
The U.S. is a country with many problems such as high crime rate, homelessness, poor education, gun violence, race issues, immigration, affordability, extreme inequality, but the worst element might be drugs. There are drugs everywhere and it is getting worse. The cost of drug abuse in the US is estimated to nearly $820 billion per…
In Hungary, opposition leader Peter Magyar and his Tisza party defied the odds, and defeated long-term incumbent PM Viktor Orban, securing two-thirds majority in the incoming Hungarian parliament. This will allow the new government, if desired, to change the Hungarian constitution. Orban’s defeat was founded first and foremost on Magyar’s disciplined and persistent messaging. He…
