2017 could be the year of the global “geopolitical recession,” a research report from the Eurasia Group blares. The "shock" election of Donald Trump will be causation for a “geopolitical depression that triggers major interstate military conflict and/ or the breakdown of major central government institutions,” write Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer and Chairman Cliff Kupchan. Looking at the rise of the stock market, it is apparent investors have not yet read or at this point do not subscribe to such analysis. If Bremmer and Kupchan are correct, it’s not just time for stock market hedging, it’s time to invest in a bomb shelter.


