Adieu 2025
Gather ’round, folks! Our final and 'only' blog post of the year is here—and what a year it’s been. 2025 surely kept us on our toes! From geopolitics behaving like reality TV to markets shining literally, this was a year of plot twists, drama, and headline whiplash. Grab your popcorn—let’s rewind. Trump’ed: Tariffs, Tweets & a Touch of Nobel: If diplomacy had a blooper reel, Trump starred in it. Trade talks turned into stand-up comedy, tariffs were slapped like fridge magnets, and somehow—somewhere—the words “Trump” and “Nobel Peace Prize” appeared in the same sentence. Economists blinked twice. Twitter never logged out. And the Nobel committee is probably still saying, “We were hacked, right?” International Politics: Canada swapped Trudeau’s selfies for Mark Carney’s spreadsheets. Germany traded Scholz for Friedrich Merz after a Bundestag nail-biter. Japan finally broke the glass ceiling with Sanae Takaichi—though her cabinet still looked like a boys’ hostel. N...