A familiar portfolio map is being redrawn. Ian Harnett traces the regime shift from disinflation and reliable bond hedges to a world where inflation pressures linger, supply chains shorten, and capital becomes a policy tool. The conversation moves from China’s exported deflation to Europe’s structural constraints, then into America’s strategy of attracting investment with tariff leverage. Beneath it all sits a political question: what happens if the governing coalition fractures ahead of the midterms. Harnett argues that is the moment the dollar turns from anchor to risk.
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Episode TimeStamps:
00:00 - The gray swan: political fracture and the point to sell the dollar
00:37 - Show intro and risk disclaimer
01:33 - Setting the frame: global macro, geopolitics, and regime change
04:34 - The new regime: inflation risk and the stock-bond relationship breaking
06:39 - Structural inflation drivers: deglobalization, trade weaponization, China’s deflation export
09:14 - Capital as a battleground: surcharges, controls, and Europe’s capital markets problem
12:02 - Europe’s catalyst problem: why it may take a crisis to build a true safe asset
14:44 - America’s playbook: inbound capital, tariff bargaining, and “neo-royalism”
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