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Back to the Future: China and the US

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The COVID-19 disease, which seems likely to be with us for a long time, has done its part to define history. But it has...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Resurrecting a Forecast

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Geopolitical Futures is the second company I founded to forecast geopolitics. Many things such as the weather and econometrics are forecast with a degree...

The Medical Structure and Calculated Risk

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Medical research is always involved in the important work of understanding disease and the human body. It is now at the center of a...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Remembering May 7, 1945

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Today, May 7, 2020, is the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany. That day ended an extraordinary period of human history, made...

Power and the Rise and Fall of Nations

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Last week, I appeared on a Turkish TV station and spoke to a business group in Switzerland. The same question was the focus of...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Two Versions of May Day

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May Day has been special to me since the third grade, when a pole was erected in the center of the schoolyard of PS...

Medical, Economic, Social, Military: The State of Play

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A riot broke out in a poor, predominantly Muslim neighborhood north of Paris over the weekend. The immediate cause was a traffic offense and...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Russia and the Fight Against Tragedy

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Karl Marx wrote that “history repeats itself twice, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.” The collapse of the Soviet...

Recession and Depression

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A recession is an essential part of the business cycle. Among other things it culls the weaker businesses and redistributes capital and labor for...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Prisms of Thought

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When I began the Thoughts column, I explained that I was using it as a space for thinking about a new book intended to...

The Beginning of Social Dysfunction

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A few weeks ago, I laid out a model for thinking about the coronavirus crisis. I argued that there were four structures operating: medical,...

George Friedman’s Thoughts: Tuesday Night Poker

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Earlier this week I wrote a book review about the breakdown of community and friendship in our time. In that review, I spoke of...
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