2017 could be the year of the global “geopolitical recession,” a research report from the Eurasia Group blares. The “shock” election of Donald Trump will be causation for a “geopolitical depression that triggers major interstate military conflict and/ or the breakdown of major central government institutions,” write Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and Chairman Cliff Kupchan. Looking at the rise of the stock market, it is apparent investors have not yet read or at this point do not subscribe to such analysis. If Bremmer and Kupchan are correct, it’s not just time for stock market hedging, it’s time to invest…
Eurasia Group Sees Dystopia Under Trump
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.