Blog categorized as Industry Analysis

The Resilient Silk Web

03.03.2026 01:05 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
The Resilient Silk Web
New trade corridors are forming a resilient web. Position at intersection nodes. Validate demand before committing capital.

FROM MINISTRY TO MONOPOLY

03.01.2026 03:50 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
FROM MINISTRY TO MONOPOLY
The ESG apparatus isn't dying — it's migrating onto blockchain rails. Tokenizing natural assets creates permanent, fractionalized encumbrances that no single court can unwind. The consensus mechanism isn't a technical detail. It's the mechanism of capture.

Trade in a Neo-mercantilist World

02.26.2026 02:25 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
Trade in a Neo-mercantilist World
Global trade has gone strategic. Trade commissioners who move beyond FDI attraction - and actively embed trusted manufacturers into U.S. defense and critical supply chains - will capture value where security, not cost, now drives demand.

AI Be Nimble, AI Be Quick

02.13.2026 08:53 AM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
AI Be Nimble, AI Be Quick
How experienced humans using AI help Australian manufacturers navigate fast-changing US defense trade pathways, especially CSO and SBIR partnerships.

 SBIR/STTR: The $4B Annual Opportunity Most Small Businesses Get Wrong Part 2: Winning the Game  by Rob Fekete,  Founder and CEO, OutPace Business Solutions

01.17.2026 03:20 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
 SBIR/STTR: The $4B Annual Opportunity Most Small Businesses Get Wrong Part 2: Winning the Game  by Rob Fekete,  Founder and CEO, OutPace Business Solutions
Rob Fekete breaks down the $4B SBIR/STTR program, revealing why many small businesses misunderstand it. Learn how this federal R&D funding serves as a strategic entry point to government contracts and why it’s key for startups and encore entrepreneurs aiming to grow.

 SBIR/STTR: The $4B Annual Opportunity Most Small Businesses Get Wrong ​Part 1: Understanding the Landscape by Rob Fekete,  Founder and CEO, OutPace Business Solutions

01.07.2026 03:20 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
 SBIR/STTR: The $4B Annual Opportunity Most Small Businesses Get Wrong
​Part 1: Understanding the Landscape
by Rob Fekete,  Founder and CEO, OutPace Business Solutions
Rob Fekete breaks down the $4B SBIR/STTR program, revealing why many small businesses misunderstand it. Learn how this federal R&D funding serves as a strategic entry point to government contracts and why it’s key for startups and encore entrepreneurs aiming to grow.

SelectGlobal 2025 Year-End Brief

12.30.2025 11:28 AM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
SelectGlobal 2025 Year-End Brief
The rules changed in 2025. This brief distills the constraints shaping capital, supply chains, and power in 2026 and explains why North American integration now determines industrial competitiveness.

2025: What We Actually Built

12.15.2025 12:25 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
2025: What We Actually Built
When markets stalled in 2025, SelectGlobal built durable infrastructure—relationships, platforms, and decision frameworks—positioning our ecosystem to move faster and smarter when client timing and capital realign.

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Conclusions

11.24.2025 12:52 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
Eight Days. Eight Themes. One Through-Line. The macro forces are in motion. Power scarcity demands infrastructure buildout. Labor shortage requires automation. Supply chain vulnerability necessitates reshoring.

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 8

11.24.2025 11:27 AM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
Strategic Investment Domains—What Hasn't Changed: Where Capital Meets Structural Necessity—The Six Domains Driving 30+ Years of North American Advantage

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 7

11.24.2025 10:54 AM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
Demographics - The Irreversible Math The Asymmetry: The U.S. attracts more working-age, high-skill, and high-earning immigrants than any country in the world.

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 6

11.24.2025 10:09 AM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
Day 6: Dollar Architecture 2.0 Grand strategy isn't about what GDP will be—it's about what you want GDP to look like. $1-4 trillion in structural Treasury purchases by 2030 provides direct fiscal support

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 5 (Part 3) bear with me - this gets weedy

11.23.2025 11:36 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
How America Is Formalizing Global Decoupling (Without Saying So) Why Supply Chain Sovereignty Became National Security Deployment Reality: How to Position for Permanent Realignment

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 5 (Part 2)

11.23.2025 11:04 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
How America Is Formalizing Global Decoupling (Without Saying So) Why Supply Chain Sovereignty Became National Security That's not speculation. That's physics meeting economics. And it's already happening.

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 5 (Part 1)

11.23.2025 10:40 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)
How America Is Formalizing Global Decoupling (Without Saying So) Why Supply Chain Sovereignty Became National Security That's not politics. That's economics responding to incentives.

Strong Convictions, Loosely Held:  Day 2

11.18.2025 03:49 PM - By Michael Edgar - Comment(s)

Capital isn't the bottleneck. Energy is.


The hyperscalers have the money. They're sitting on $500B in cash and generating $300B in free cash flow annually. They can write the checks. What they can't do is flip a switch and add 5 GW of grid capacity in Virginia or Texas.


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