2024 Preview: Biden’s Battles Before the War
By Thomas Dee, CFA, Capstone’s Head of Research and Strategy Two policy stories will dominate 2024. The first, of course, is that 2024 is an election year. Biden will end 2023 with an average approval rating of 39%, the lowest of any of the last seven...
AI Wars to Heat up: Why the US and EU Will Escalate Their AI Trade War, and Why it Carries Underappreciated Risks
By JB Ferguson Introduction Capstone believes the US-EU de facto trade war over AI will escalate in 2024, posing underappreciated risks and opportunities across tech and other industries. We expect the competing priorities of protecting against the unconstrained...
Waves at The Ballot Box: Why EU Electoral Dynamics will Have Underappreciated Implications Across Industry
By Mathew Gilbert Introduction Capstone believes a new European Commission (EC) agenda and Parliament elections will drive a host of underappreciated national and EU-level policy implications across industries as European Union (EU) as policymakers double down on...
Crypto’s Regulatory Moment: Why a Confluence of Regulatory Dynamics Will Spark the Asset Class
By JB Ferguson Introduction Capstone believes Grayscale’s victory against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August has begun to open the floodgates for crypto issuers, as the commission will approve a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by July 2024,...
