How Countries Make What They Make The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) holds roughly seventy percent of the world’s mined cobalt, a metal essential to lithium-ion batteries, aerospace alloys, and a growing share of medical devices. It does not refine most of it. The ore leaves the country in trucks, crosses into…
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We have always traded across distances. The hard questions are not whether, but on whose terms, and for whose benefit. Post 2 of a series on globalization, concentration, and strategic de-risking. See the first post on Substack here. Early on… Archaeologists found obsidian tools at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in central…
Comments closedExploring the contrast between American and European cultures, this article delves into how the pursuit of external validation in the U.S. impacts individual well-being and self-perception.
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