Blueprints, Bottlenecks, and Brainpower—What’s Moving Markets

What’s Moving The Economic Needle This Week

This Week: Production, Power, and Where Alpha’s Hiding

If you think defense is about posture, you’re already late.
Washington’s briefings, Brussels’ hedges, Beijing’s leverage—this week’s tape is being written in factories, mines, and visa offices, not press rooms.

Inside the paywalled report, you’ll learn:

• Defense → Output: Why the Pentagon’s new obsession with production changes procurement, alliances, and where capital should position.

• Sino–U.S. Reality Check: What supply-chain dependency (rare earths, gallium) actually means for policy risk and timelines.

• Europe’s Quiet Hedge: The tells that Brussels is playing both sides—and how to price that risk.

• Lithium, but Grown-Up: From subsidies to equity ownership—what that shift means for margins and which exposures benefit.

• Immigration Math: The competitiveness mistake no one in D.C. wants to model—and how investors can.

• Market Breadth: Proof that leadership is broadening and why mid/small caps are where new alpha is forming.

Plus my positioning notes:

• Overweights/avoids, sector rotations I’m tracking, and the one macro data dynamic that flipped the tape this week.

If you want context you can trade—and policy you can price—unlock the full breakdown below.

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