I’ve been enjoying learning more about geopolitics from independent people who have kept up for decades on current events and don’t get all their information from national news/entertainment/click factories. Here is something interesting.For centuries, global power has been measured in fleets, armies, and territory. But the modern world has long operated on something far less visible—and arguably far more powerful: trust, risk, and the signatures that enable commerce to move.For more than 300 years, that authority resided in London. They have had a lot of influence on U.S. policies, etc. for their benefit.From its origins in Edward Lloyd’s coffee house in the late 17th century, the insurance market that became Lloyd’s of London quietly evolved into one of the central
