Year: 2022

Banking
CapEx Team

ONLY ONCE

Can you do this: removing Russia’s central bank and a number of other commercial banks from the SWIFT payment messaging system. That’s what just happened. This is the weaponisation of money on this scale we’ve never seen before. Why do I say this? Because the second-order effects are that the

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russia, ukraine
Current Affairs/Politics
CapEx Team

WHAT ISN’T BEING TALKED ABOUT

This edition is probably the beastiest we’ve produced. Late nights, phone calls, research into the wee hours, you name it. It is hard not to feel overwhelmed. We feel fortunate we’ve been watching much of this for decades now, so the ability to parse information and understand it within context

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Insider
CapEx Team

LONG DEATH

While correlation doesn’t always equal causation… It’s morbid AF to have a “long death” portfolio, but if people are dying, people are dying. And we’d wish for them and their loved ones to have as dignified an experience as one can get in such shitty conditions. Funeral homes — a

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Current Affairs/Politics
CapEx Team

RUSSIA: SANCTION ITS EXPORTS AT YOUR PERIL

By now you might be thinking we are “pro-Russia”. Nothing of the sort. In essence, what we are trying to do is point out how Russia is way more important to the world economy than it was some 20 years ago. To embargo or limit Russia’s exports will only lead

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OWTW
CapEx Team

Russia: Careful what you wish for – OWTW

This week’s issue will be a bit different than usual. We’re sharing with you an excerpt from our latest Insider Weekly that looks under the hood (bonnet, for our British readers) of the economic measures against Russia. The pundits are rushing to tell us that the way to stop Russia’s aggression is

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fertilizer inflation, food inflation
inflation
CapEx Team

FERTILIZER CRISIS ABOUT TO BECOME A FOOD CRISIS

Don’t underestimate this fertilizer/agriculture fiasco. It is going to be far more severe and prolonged than what the vast majority has led themselves to believe. As Europe’s farmers prepare to spread fertilizers on fields after winter, sky-high nutrient prices are leaving them little choice but to use less and try

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Energy
CapEx Team

WHERE’S IT GONNA COME FROM?

Stop staring at your gains from the energy stocks for a second here. Take a seat in a nice quiet place and ask yourself this one really simple question: if oil demand continues to grow at ~1 million b/d for the next 8-10 years, where is the oil supply coming

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insurers vs big pharma
Insider
CapEx Team

Insurers VS Pharma

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of the state and corporate power.” – Benito Mussolini Let’s go through insurers. This is important because it provides us with some means to understand a potential road map of how we’re likely to see all of this play

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