A long history of underinvestment, extreme political risk, and organized crime. These are just some of the issues that U.S. oil and minerals companies might face if they were to set foot into Venezuela now that there appears to be a ray of light following the removal of the country’s dictator, Nicolas Maduro. The longtime […]

A significant ingredient of President Donald Trump‘s foreign policy during his second term is keeping other nations off balance. Whether allies, enemies, or nations worried about becoming the latter, the collective international inability to predict what Trump will do next anywhere in the world has left many nations wondering whether to extend a presidential invite […]

For years, monetary doves have challenged hawks worried about the dominance of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency, with a very good question: What sovereign currency could replace it? As it turns out, the answer is none of the above. But that doesn’t mean the greenback isn’t being replaced. After the single-worst year […]

Trapped inside our home last week, my family was in search of a “snowy” movie we could watch together. After rejecting Alive, The Empire Strikes Back, and The Shining, we settled on Groundhog Day, which famously features a blizzard trapping Bill Murray’s Phil Connors in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Essays have been written treating Groundhog Day as […]