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Two Decimal Places of Fiction: Why SETI is More Rigorous Than Your WACC

In 1961, at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, Frank Drake wrote seven variables on a chalkboard. Multiplied together, they were supposed to [...]

The Last Drop: Water, Risk, and the Future of the Economy

A Strategic Briefing with Will Sarni Water is increasingly emerging as one of the most important—and least understood—drivers of economic risk and [...]

Capital Doesn’t Predict the Future — It Builds It

The Greatest Arbitrage in Modern Markets Is Between the World Our Institutions Can Perceive and the World That Actually Exists April 2026 There is a [...]

The Post-ESG Landscape: Financing the Next Economy

GAI’s Jabusch and Karp in Conversation with Impact Entrepreneur The investment world is currently navigating a profound paradigm shift, moving beyond the [...]

The Strait of Hormuz and the Price of Fragility

What the Largest Energy Disruption in History Reveals About Portfolio Risk As we write this, Brent crude sits above $107 per barrel. Earlier this month [...]

“Whale Fall” – The End & The Beginning

By Erika Karp, President Now that Spring is within sight, I've been fantasizing about the summer. So naturally, I've been dreaming about whales. [...]

Can Orbital Data Centers Really Be a Thing? (And Is That the Next Economy?)

By Garvin Jabusch February, 2026 We often talk about the Next Economy as a function of efficiency—doing more with less, deleting the friction of [...]

Oren Cass Is Right About the Disease. He’s Wrong About the Cure.

A conservative economist just published the most widely-read critique of financialization in years. His diagnosis is devastating — and [...]

He Lifeng’s Wisdom in Davos: The Rise of the First “Electro-State” and the Next Economy

By Green Alpha® Investments, Next EconomyTM Investments At Davos 2026 this week, amidst a global backdrop of rising protectionism and short-term thinking, [...]