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Geopolitics, relocation, borders and money through a founder’s eyes: where the world is heading, where windows of opportunity open, and the real price of arbitraging between jurisdictions.

9 publications

22 min

The EU Pensioner Crisis: an Intergenerational Conflict Escalating Across Housing, Pensions and Welfare

Madoff got 150 years for a $65 billion pyramid. France's own accrued pension liabilities run 397% of its GDP, and nobody goes to prison for that, because participation is mandatory by law. In 1960, one European pensioner was held up by 6.7 workers. Today it's 2.8. By 2050 it will be under two. This is an autopsy of the broken intergenerational contract: who bought a house for three years' salary and is selling it back to you for eight, why your contributions will never become your pension, where Europe's Nvidia went — and why the largest protest of a generation wasn't against the pyramid, but for the right to get into it two years earlier.

  • demographics
  • pensions
  • Europe

16 min

Death With No Owner: Why Europe Makes You Earn Coolness With a Diagnosis

In Geneva, an air conditioner in your own bedroom long required proof of a legitimate need — a medical certificate, for instance. In Portofino, a unit on a facade can cost you €43,000. Meanwhile Europe buried roughly 181,000 heat deaths across three summers, 85% of them people over 65. An anatomy of the mechanism: how a state with no malicious intent builds a system where coolness costs agencies money and a dead pensioner costs nothing.

  • Europe
  • heat
  • ageing

16 min

How Ukraine Accidentally Became NATO's R&D Lab While NATO Was Still Writing Tenders

Operation Spiderweb wrote off a third of Russia's strategic air fleet with $2,000 drones, while the F-35 at $2 trillion waits five more years for an upgrade. This isn't a story about weapons — it's a story about two speeds of thought. A breakdown through cost-exchange, Boyd's OODA loop, 'Pentagon Wars,' and the honest nuance that the lab runs in both directions. With a decision-loop audit tool for your own cycle.

  • war
  • Ukraine
  • defense industry