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- The New World of Higher Interest Rates By: David Barrosse, CEO November 30, 2021 — In the aftermath of the financial crisis, I had the pleasure of working on financial regulation policy issues with Jay Powell when we were both affiliated with the Bipartisan Policy Center (an organization more important now than ever). After his nomination to be a Fed Governor, we […]Learn More
- Two Burgeoning Catalysts from COP26 By: Dhanush Arun November 16, 2021—Walking among the protests and the bustling meetings of the busy city centre in Glasgow earlier at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), I was struck by both the palpable sense of excitement and hope in the air that mixed in with a growing but healthy dose of scepticism. The […]Learn More
- Next on the Biden Foreign Policy Agenda: China, the Energy Crisis, Rattled Allies By: Daniel Silverberg, managing director of corporate practice & co-head of the national security team October 28, 2021—In the coming months, the Biden administration will shift its focus from crisis response in Afghanistan toward two key threats: containing China in South and Central Asia and addressing a burgeoning global energy crisis, which could send US gas […]Learn More
- Build Back Better’s Path: Better a Diamond with a Flaw Than a Pebble Without By: Maxwell Reale October 5, 2021 — While some pundits may view the previous weeks’ lack of resolution on President Biden’s two major legislative accomplishments—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal (BID) and the FY22 Reconciliation Bill (Recon 2)—as a signal for increased pessimism that either efforts will eventually pass, Capstone disagrees. To quickly recap: President Biden and […]Learn More
- The Trouble With China By: David Barrosse, CEO September 23, 2021 — A recent book, The Long Game: China’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, makes the compelling case that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been following a systematic plan to exert its influence over the region and the world since the end of the Cold War. The […]Learn More
- What the Infrastructure Bill Means for Netflix, Google, and Other Internet Service Providers By Matt Wiederrecht August 18, 2021 — Capstone believes the Senate’s passage of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last week brought us a big step closer towards its becoming law, which we continue to believe has 80% odds of happening. Should it pass, the bill will be meaningfully positive for investors in both major internet […]Learn More
- A New Cold War? The Deteriorating Relationship Between China and The US July 8, 2021 — Our job as investment analysts is, by necessity, to attempt to look over the horizon. But as Yogi Berra famously said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” A necessary device for the adept analyst is ascertaining where there might be blind spots in consensus investor views. Though most […]Learn More
- Policy Shakeout from the GameStop Saga: Retail Brokers, Short Selling & Market Making In this research commentary, Capstone discusses four policy debates we expect to emerge from the recent market volatility. February 5, 2021 – Last week’s market volatility was remarkable on many fronts—the magnitude of the GameStop Corp. (GME) short squeeze, the breadth with which volatility spread across the market to other heavily shorted stocks, and the […]Learn More
