Research

Everything on the board, as a list or laid out on the horizon each thesis will be tested against. Pieces in progress list the question being worked, not a conclusion.

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pieces on the board
Evidence checked through Nov 2026

pieces on the board
Evidence checked through Nov 2026

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Economics

Technology

Geopolitics

Published

3

Nov 6, 2026

Technology

What a free rocket wouldn’t fix

Launch isn’t today’s bottleneck. Even a free ride doesn’t close the gap under this accounting; the bull case needs hardware and IT costs to fall with scale while ground power stays scarce.

Orbital compute

Energy

Interactive model

Nov 6, 2026

Economics

Growth or Grind

Net interest took 19.5% of federal receipts in FY2026. Cheaper work shrinks that burden only where a real resource saving becomes taxable domestic income, and only if someone keeps the gain.

Fiscal

Debt dynamics

Historical overlays

Nov 7, 2026

Markets

When the Price Becomes the Argument

Persistent valuation-insensitive inflows can push a concentrated market past plausible cash-flow assumptions when counterparty capacity is limited, and the gains reinforce the exposures that magnify losses if conditions reverse.

Market structure

Passive flows

Twelve exhibits

In progress

4

Working

Geopolitics

Chokepoints and the price of a detour

The question being worked: what does a closed strait actually cost, and who pays it, when the historical episodes are laid side by side?

Trade routes

Historical overlays

Working

Technology

The robot on the balance sheet

The question being worked: at what unit cost and utilization does a general-purpose robot change a firm’s labor line, and which firms would show it first?

Robotics

Unit economics

Working

Geopolitics

Export controls as an industrial policy

The question being worked: when a control regime changes, where does the capacity it blocks actually get built, and on what timeline?

Semiconductors

Policy

Working

Economics

What the term premium is actually pricing

The question being worked: how much of the long end is supply, how much is inflation uncertainty, and how would we tell the difference in real time?

Rates

Decomposition

On the horizon

Each thesis laid against the years it will be tested in. Bars are the stated scenario horizon or monitoring window; dots are the dated falsifiers from the piece. Hover a dot to read the test.

Scenario horizon or monitoring windowDated falsifier gateHorizon not yet datedToday, Nov 2026

Themes

Economics

3

Technology

2

Geopolitics

2

Series