Briefing

Europe’s defense boom is real. Its defense capacity is not

The cancellation of Germany’s F126 frigate programme highlights a risk markets have largely ignored: budgets can be approved overnight, but industrial capability takes years to rebuild. The bottleneck in European rearmament is no longer political willingness — it is execution.

Macro · Credit

Software’s Double Whammy: AI Disruption Meets $538 Billion of SaaS Direct Lending

AI is creating winners, but the bigger risk may be what it does to businesses financed before the rules changed.

Credit · AI Infrastructure

Argentina Already Changed. The Market Is Still Running the 2001 Playbook.

The consensus is debating the peso. The real question is what happens when the dollars arrive faster than the plumbing can handle them.

Macro · Geopolitics

The Signal Library Problem

Buy-side alpha capture is being sold as a cheaper way to access trading talent. The deeper issue is what happens when the same ideas are bought, scored and executed by every large allocator at once.

Market Structure

The Things Technology Cannot Replace

Madrid's extraordinary weekend was about more than religion or tourism. It revealed the enduring value of institutions, community, and meaning in an increasingly digital world.

Institutions & Society

The Most Crowded Trade in History

At a certain scale, tracking the market stops being neutral — it starts defining it.

Market Structure

New Grammar of AI Finance

AI is no longer behaving like a software cycle. It is becoming an infrastructure race where compute, power and capital access increasingly define the frontier.

AI Infrastructure · Market Structure

The Price Of Concentration

From Softbank to semiconductors, markets continue rewarding scale while quietly increasing dependency on a handful of assets

AI Infrastructure · Market Structure

The Parallel Economy

How AI wealth is fracturing the monetary transmission mechanism — and why the Fed may be flying blind on a growing share of the economy

Macro · AI Infrastructure

Houston, We Have an Index Problem

Why the SpaceX IPO is not just an IPO story — and how index providers are bending the passive-investing rulebook.

Market Structure · Companies & Capital

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