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Does politics matter for markets? - with Jens Larsen of Eurasia Group
42 minutes Posted Feb 12, 2026 at 4:00 pm.
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2026 has started with a flurry of political shocks. Luke and Lizzy talk to Jens Larsen, Practice Head of Geoeconomics at Eurasia Group, about the structurally elevated geopolitical volatility that investors now face and why this matter to markets. They discuss the fundamental drivers of heightened political risk, including the end of the unipolar moment and the re-emergence of great power competition, the break down in operating consensus that underpinned domestic politics until recently, the...