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February 17, 2026
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By Adam Butler
|February 9, 2026
Markets optimize for what they can measure, but how can you quantify the thing markets have always required to operate: trust? Adam Butler examines the strip-mining of trust through stories from trading pits, hospitals, newsrooms, and election offices. Institutional credibility, increasingly, converts to quarterly returns, while the industries selling replacements for trust profit from the void they create.
By Adam Butler
|February 2, 2026
The U.S. trade deficit isn't something China imposes on America. It is something American corporations engineered to maximize shareholder returns. Adam Butler traces how four decades of policy choices and ideological commitment built a machine that extracts value from workers on two continents and channels it to Wall Street. While tariffs seem like the obvious response, they target the wrong problem.
By Grant Williams
|January 27, 2026
Reserve currencies don't fall in revolutions. History shows that they thin at the margins until they cease to matter anymore. Grant Williams traces how the dollar's dominance, seemingly unshakeable, rests on a recycling mechanism that's quietly breaking down. Through the lens of sterling's invisible collapse after the Suez Crisis, he reveals the invisible mechanism through which reserve systems lose their centrality, not through visible crisis but through the redirection of capital that happens long before anyone notices.
By Matt Zeigler
|January 26, 2026
Currencies shift through redirection over decades. Bretton Woods embedded the dollar after WWII. The Suez Crisis revealed Sterling's fragility in 1956. The global financial crisis planted doubts about dollar dominance in 2008. Russia's frozen reserves in 2022 confirmed what central banks already suspected. Grant Williams traces how this 80-year arc brought us here, and what happens next.
