They got the Ace of Spades.

The annual dictator kidnapping season got underway in fine style this week as the US bagged a big one, 1.9 meter Nicolás Maduro.

But while the President and his exposer were taking a tour of the Gulf of America by Black Hawk, back on Planet Earth the geopolitical plates were shifting as never before.

In 2026, it looks like we're about to answer the greatest question of them all.

Can you just do things?

We might not like the answer.

Expanding on that thought, do you know the old joke about the economist, how he refused to pick up the $20 bill lying on the ground?

He assumed it was an illusion because if it had been real, in an efficient market, somebody would've already picked it up.

The young bucks at the State Department think they've found a way to hot wire the great game.

We're asking whether there is such a thing as an efficient market in geopolitics?

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And to all a good night.

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Every day until Christmas, Philip and Andrew open a window, revealing an object that speaks to the geopolitical year that was.