The World Financial System Is Entering a Period of Disorder
And Investors Need To Pay Attention
I came across a recent piece on LewRockwell.com discussing the world’s financial and geopolitical framework at a moment of imminent disorder. It struck me because it aligned with what I have been sensing for quite some time — the global architecture that supported markets for decades is shifting beneath our feet.
We are watching multiple fault lines line up simultaneously. It is not just Russia and Europe. It is not just the U.S. and China. It is not just Federal Reserve policy. All three of these arenas are colliding together — at the same time — and this is where the risk becomes systemic. When large nations begin redefining security frameworks, trade agreements, currency settlement systems, and political alliances, investment markets eventually have to reprice reality.
The article pointed out Russia’s refusal to settle for anything less than a true reset in European security structure. At the same time, Asia appears to be moving toward a monetary system that gradually steps outside dollar dominance — and Japan may not remain in perfect alignment with Washington forever. This is not a small story. The global financial order was built on the assumption that the U.S. dollar remains the uncontested settlement currency. When those assumptions break down, markets must eventually reflect new valuation mathematics.
The West continues to insist on managing all of this through sanctions, control of trade channels, and attempts to enforce one singular narrative position. But the world is no longer unipolar. That era is over. The geopolitical world today is more fluid, more multipolar, and less cooperative. I believe this will create more volatility, more policy shocks, and more sudden dislocations than most investors are prepared for.
When geopolitics breaks down, finance breaks next. And when finance breaks, asset pricing follows.
This is why I continue building portfolios with the awareness that valuations, inflation, debt loads, and global realignment are not theoretical threats — they are active forces shaping the next phase of this cycle. Markets today are priced as if we are still in the 2010–2019 world. We are not. We are moving into something we have not lived through in modern investing history.
We are entering an era where clarity, risk awareness, sober mathematics, and defensive positioning will matter more than ever before in our careers. I do not pretend to know the exact timing or sequence of each shock — nobody does. But I do know this: the conditions for disorder are already baked into the structure.
