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Zero damage from the attack.

Just read on the press

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Apr 14Liked by Joachim Klement

Excellent advice.

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Buy when the cannons are firing. 'Nuff said.

In terms of geopolitics that (ever so slightly) intersect with investment themes, I like Peter Zeihan. I think he has a firm grasp of demographics and petropolitics, even though his bias is clearly pro-USA and anti-China.

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Apr 14·edited Apr 14Liked by Joachim Klement

So you were the author of the CFA publication on Geoeconomics that I read 3 years ago! I didn't realize that I had read (and agreed) with your views before. Interesting how we read material and then forget the name of the author or where we read it.

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Happens to me all the time... :-)

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Apr 14Liked by Joachim Klement

Thank you for this lucid article - chock full of common sense and practical strategy.

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Apr 14Liked by Joachim Klement

Thanks for such a compact and cogent summary of what happens in major equity markets after notable geopolitical events . I happen to collect data about their impact on the S&P500, and here are two links with specific tables:

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-ukraine-crisis-what-happens-to-the-stock-market-amid-geopolitical-shocks-175610742.html

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/live-markets-what-history-says-about-geopolitics-market-2022-02-18/

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and as AI was largely responsible for the uptrend, I would now argue that if China went after Taiwan, things would not calm down so quickly...and many would buy into the falling knife....

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