Asking the Right Questions in a Changing World

A few weeks ago, two podcasts were released that help frame the transition we are living through.

In the first, Grant Williams hosted Michael Every of Rabobank to discuss his unique perspective on how the geopolitical chessboard is unfolding. While the entire conversation was strong, the most important sections were on how stablecoins will likely play a central role in reshaping the United States as it reindustrializes within a multipolar world organized around economic blocs.

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Admittedly, I’m biased to his view as I’ve leaned this way for a long while now. My deepest dive here and many others here, here, here, here, and here.

We appear to be moving into the critical phase of this transition.

Grant Williams/Michael Every Podcast

In the second, Marc Faber hosted Russell Napier to discuss why asking the right questions during major historical turning points matters far more than having the right answers.

“When regime change occurs, the greatest risk for any investor is to get all the right answers to all the wrong questions.” - Russell Napier

Russell argues that it is natural to keep asking the same questions because those questions worked for decades. The problem is that they stop working when the structure of the system itself changes. During these periods, 90% of our time should shift toward identifying the right questions rather than refining old answers. The questions that guided the last forty years will not guide the next ten.

We are clearly living through one of those periods. The frameworks that shaped decisions across finance, politics, industry, and global power are being rewritten. Both conversations help illuminate the landscape ahead and suggest that the old playbook will no longer produce reliable outcomes.