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Dr. John C. Hulsman
John C. Hulsman is the president and managing partner of John C. Hulsman Enterprises, a prominent global political risk consulting firm. He is also a senior columnist for City AM, the newspaper of the City of London. He can be contacted via johnhulsman.substack.com.
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No amount of wishful thinking will displace the mighty dollar
More mistakes are made in political risk analysis due to the curse of wishful thinking than any other intellectual malady that afflicts the human mind.
The EU, not Meloni, is the threat to democracy
I have found through my constant exposure to them through the years that the EU’s intellectual cheerleaders among geopolitical analysts — funded as they so often are by the very institution they are supposed to be impartially analyzing — are as numerous as they are clueless.
Why Biden’s mid-term ‘comeback’ is just wishful thinking
Climate analyst Bjorn Lomborg put it perfectly when he said: “Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.”The vast majority of political risk mistakes are made for this one simple reason; most analysts confuse what they would like to happen with what is likely to happen.
Europe lacks a captain for its drifting ship of state
One of the things I have learned from my decades in the political risk business is that experts usually ignore the fact that specific people truly make policy.
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