In 1823, President James Monroe warned European powers to stay out of the Americas. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt asserted America’s right to intervene as a regional police power. And in 2025, nearly two centuries after Monroe’s original message, the second Trump administration unveiled its own update: the “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine. Buried in […]
History rarely repeats itself perfectly — but sometimes, it comes close enough to demand attention. As May 2026 drew to a close, the S&P 500 finished the month at a record high, and the headlines celebrated. But beneath that celebratory surface, a troubling pattern had quietly taken shape: one that analysts with long enough memories […]
In one of the most significant corporate deals of 2026, Berkshire Hathaway has agreed to acquire Taylor Morrison Home, one of the largest homebuilders in the United States, in a $6.8 billion all-cash transaction. The deal — priced at $72.50 per share, representing a 24% premium to Taylor Morrison’s closing price on May 29 — […]
In a landmark address at the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a blunt, unvarnished vision of the Pacific region that breaks sharply from decades of American foreign policy. Speaking under the banner of President Donald Trump’s second term, Hegseth outlined a doctrine of “flexible practical realism” – one that abandons […]