Why Double Plus?

If you are concerned that the U.S. and Europe (and Australia, New Zealand and Canada) are turning into our own multiculti version of the CCP, only with Pride Week, then we are kindred spirits.

I will be randomly looking at the intersection of U.S.-China politics and markets, and reading the tea leaves regarding a new Cold War that pits multinationals and Wall Street against a Defense Department concerned with national security matters; pits Corporate America against progressive Democrats and nationalist Republicans, who are starting to recognize that China is not their “enemy”: it’s their own government and the Party of Davos that runs it.

Want to know what they are up to?

We do.

“Those who have put out the peoples’ eyes reproach them of their blindness.” — An Apology for a Pamphlet, John Milton, 1642.

Why Subscribe?

Most of the big picture Substackers here in the U.S. are focused on the social noise coming out of Washington DC, and sticking to their view alone. You get my raw two cents on the geopolitics shaping the world, and views from others whom I know personally. Sort of like faculty lounge speak, only for a bar stool crowd.

I hear from a lot of people, having been a reporter for many years, both as a staffer at the WSJ in Brazil and as a 9-year senior contributor at Forbes. Many times they will be off-the-record. I thought it would be interesting if I could give people that off the record conversation. These were rumors that I was always unable to print or, generally. insights that wouldn’t fit into a news article but I wish they would.

If you followed me on Forbes, I’m not really there anymore. Maybe you will miss me.

If you followed me on Twitter or LinkedIn, and like the way I think (or my occasional snark), then the Double Plus is for you. Consider this the beta version.

Double Plus is a China saying. If it is really good, it is double plus good.

Here, we will chat up Davos Man’s bad ideas and their intentions. I will have one eye on them driving us crazy; the other on China getting away with everything. If we are lucky, we can make some money in the markets. One of the best ways to do that is not by gambling on stocks, but in knowing what is coming at us from the top.

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