Capital is increasingly following strategic importance rather than simply financial efficiency
For decades, the value of an investment was often measured by a relatively simple equation: cost, productivity, scale and expected return. That equation is becoming more complicated. Strategic capital allocation increasingly asks a different question: what is an asset worth when it provides access to energy, technology, resources, manufacturing capacity or national security even if […]
The Return of Industrial Policy and Its Impact on Global Capital Flows
Capital is rarely indifferent to incentives. When the economics of building a factory, data center, power plant, or semiconductor facility can change because of a tax credit, tariff, subsidy, procurement decision, or national-security priority, investment decisions are no longer shaped by market forces alone. Industrial policy is becoming an increasingly important variable in that equation, […]
