Today's episode examines the structural shift from cost-optimized supply chains to a fragmented global order defined by protectionist hedging and the 'Made with China' paradigm. We analyze how the convergence of aggressive US tariff regimes, the rise of an anti-dollar economic bloc, and the move toward token-efficient AI architectures is fundamentally rewriting the rules of capital allocation and geopolitical risk.

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0:00 - Introduction
0:45 - Geopolitical Fault Lines and Trade Wars
10:36 - The AI Compute Arms Race
14:41 - Fiscal Fragility and Sovereign Risk
17:51 - The New Era of Capital Efficiency
20:18 - The Great Inflationary Reset
22:39 - Conclusion

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Tough axe to follow (Geopolitical Dispatch)
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