Securonomics is fuzzy new lodestar for investors

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : As Jacob Soll argues in "Free Market: The History of an Idea", a timely history of the battle between liberalism and protectionism published in 2022, the era we have just lived through is an exception.
60% : President Joe Biden's National Security Advisor explained that the era of unqualified support for free markets is over.
58% : Industries and companies exposed to the renewed appetite for defense spending, meanwhile, are also benefiting.
58% : As far back as the 17th and 18th centuries, economic policymakers such as Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French statesman, and Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Treasury Secretary, acknowledged the need to temper the efficiency of free markets with government support for industries essential to national security.
54% : Internationally, meanwhile, free trade is no longer the pole star.
42% : During the era of free trade and financial liberalisation, the politicians danced to the economists' tune.

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