The Political Risk Brief

Even as the geopolitical competition between the United States and China intensifies, China’s access to U.S. markets continues largely unconstrained.  Moreover, China’s largest companies appear poised to contest sectors long dominated by U.S. firms. In this episode, Baron offers key insights into China’s accelerat...

Antitrust policy in the Unites States has been dominated for four decades by the consumer welfare standard.  Now, a new generation of antitrust policy makers seeks to return to the doctrines of an earlier era and exact revenge for the alleged transgressions of neoliberalism.  In this episode, Baron offers key insights into America’s dawning age of reinvigorated antitrust enforcement, wit...

The pursuit of influence consumes Washington, D.C. Companies and organizations spend billions to engage the thought leaders and decision makers who drive policy outcomes. Yet, determining the individuals who exert true and lasting influence often eludes even the most sophisticated political strategists. In this episode, Baron explores the challenge of reliably identifying and unders...

Corporations that assume policy-making powers invite the wrath of the ultimate monopolist: government.  Baron details what business leaders and policy observers should expect in the coming years from Washington as politicians seek to constrain companies as unwelcome competitors for political power.

Explore the true driver of America’s rising healthcare costs: plummeting population health. The confluence of America’s declining health, shifting political demography, and rising populism promise to increase political risk to the healthcare sector. Baron details what business leaders and policy observers should expect in the coming years from Washington.

Explore the six powerful drivers of the world’s largest bilateral economic relationship and the defining geopolitical rivalry of our era. Despite decades of extensive contacts with their counterparts in China, U.S. business and political leaders continue to struggle with the mysteries of Beijing’s behavior. This episode examines the nature, origins, and implications of U.S.-China competition....

With the conclusion of America’s quadrennial election cycle, how do private-sector interests now compete and prevail in Washington, DC? Distilling more than 15 years of work with market leaders, the Baron team explores the approaches of the most effective enterprises to driving policy outcomes. The conversation pursues five questions central to winning in Washington:  1.  &nbsp...

Twenty years ago this September 19, the U.S. Senate rendered a decision that continues to define American politics. The Senate’s vote to approve Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with China ensured enactment, propelling the geopolitics of the twenty-first century and unleashing the populism that increasingly animates the American electorate. In this inaugural episode of the Politic...