GeoQuant

Municipal elections in Russia, while following the pre-ordained outcome of Vladimir Putin’s strong-armed regime, showed some fissures in the ruler’s hammerlock on power, the geopolitical risk analysis firm GeoQuant says. The analytics firm showed institutional support for Putin, a vivid...

A summer vacation season filled with anxiety may have finally provided Wall Street with a wake-up call. But it may be too late to avoid a downturn. From Hurricane Harvey to tax reform to the debt ceiling to the very social stability of the United States, the markets are likely to show signs that it...

What began with a deadly clash in Virginia led to a perfect storm that threatens the global economy and stability of the dollar. The danger is not so much that President Donald Trump is losing his angry, white, working-class base, but he is being abandoned by GOP elites who were hoping to profit...

The eyes of the world will be turned toward Paris on Thursday when President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron square off for The Handshake: Part Deux. The two leaders engaged in a white-knuckle, teeth-gritting “death grip” instigated mainly by Macron during a May 25...

Take the ethnic breakdown of a country and filter it through politics and economics and historical context. Factor in trend analyses built from social media and mainstream reporting. Do the math. What do you get? A model that predicts a society’s chances of, say, a shooting war with Russia or...