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11 dated public stances tracked since 2025-06-05, most recently 2026-10-18. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.
The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Peter Zeihan's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Peter Zeihan is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.
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2026-10-18
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Raw direction-aware returns on public statements — long calls credited when the price rose, shorts when it fell, shorts capped at −100% — in a rising market this mostly measures who was long, not who has skill. Returns run from the stance date; calls are rarely closed publicly, so fixed 90-day / 180-day / 1-year horizons are used. A horizon shows only once it has fully matured, and only at 5+ scored stances. “% correct” is the share of those scored calls whose direction-aware return was positive at the horizon — in a rising market a bullish call is correct by default, so read it beside the market, not alone.
Scored calls
Every tracked call with at least one matured horizon: the rows behind the Returns line above. A dash is a horizon that has not matured yet.
| Date | Name | Call | 90d | 180d | 1y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-05 | India Equities | bullish | -2.9% | -0.6% | -12.6% |
| 2025-06-05 | ENERGY | bearish | -9.0% | -12.0% | -45.4% |
| 2025-06-05 | China Equities | bearish | -7.7% | -9.3% | +2.8% |
Most-argued themes
| Theme | Stances | Lean | Mix | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI / LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-06-05 | |
| CHINESE EQUITIES | 1 | 1 bearish | 2026-10-17 | |
| COAL AND NATURAL GAS | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-06-05 | |
| China Equities | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-06-05 | |
| ENERGY | 1 | 1 bearish | 2025-06-05 | |
| India Equities | 1 | 1 bullish | 2025-06-05 |
Tracked stances
bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.
2026-10-18
short EUROPEAN MANUFACTURING STOCKS / short CHINESE MANUFACTURING STOCKS
basket
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
Simultaneous Persian Gulf crude disruption and energy dependence will end both Europe Inc. and China Inc. as competitive global manufacturing powers, removing the two largest manufacturing blocs in a single shock.
“the end of Europe Inc. as a major manufacturing presence… at the same time… the end of China Inc.”
"There's Only One Place to Put Your Money" — Peter Zeihan on America's Edge
Structural US advantages — two-ocean geography, globally dominant military, young consumer population, and the coming need to double the industrial plant — make the dollar the only viable store of value as the global order fragments.
“there's only one place to put your money, and it's [the dollar]”
"There's Only One Place to Put Your Money" — Peter Zeihan on America's Edge
2026-10-17
CHINESE EQUITIES
bearish
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
China has roughly 40 days of oil import cover with no sufficient alternative sources, so even a month-long Persian Gulf disruption would be economically fatal — first to go down among East Asian economies
“East Asia's gone and it never comes back, with China being the first one to go down”
"East Asia Is Gone" — Peter Zeihan on the Oil Shock No One Is Ready For
Iran's Shahed drones at $40-50K each are exhausting Gulf-state PAC-3 interceptors at $4M each faster than they can be replenished (US produces ~700/year vs Iran producing ~700 Shaheds/week), leaving Persian Gulf oil pumping stations, refineries, and loading…
“there's a very very real possibility here in the very short-term future that we just lose the Persian Gulf”
Could We Lose the Persian Gulf This Week? Scott Galloway and Peter Zeihan
2026-07-29
short ENERGY / long COAL / TRADITIONAL FOSSIL FUELS
pair
Marko Papic · video
Green tech has the world's second most complex supply chains after advanced semiconductors and shatters first under deglobalization, while coal and traditional energy require far simpler logistics that survive fragmentation
“Get ready for coal and wood”
Four Ex-Stratfor Analysts Reunite to Predict How the World Ends
2025-06-05
AI / LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS
bearish
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
Supply chain disruption forces reversion to older DUV lithography at 14nm+, requiring five times as many chips and four to five times the power per model, making frontier AI economically unviable for roughly 20 years until semiconductor supply chains rebuild…
“we're looking at a 95% reduction on a cost basis in order to run AI models that we had last year”
China’s Collapse, America’s Rise, and What Comes Next — with Peter Zeihan | Prof G Conversations
2025-06-05
COAL AND NATURAL GAS
bullish
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
Doubling the US industrial plant requires using every available power source immediately with the existing grid; retirement of any fossil fuel generation is off the table because renewables capital costs have risen 4x and there is no short-term alternative…
“we're not going to retire anything. I don't care if it's coal”
China’s Collapse, America’s Rise, and What Comes Next — with Peter Zeihan | Prof G Conversations
2025-06-05
China Equities
bearish
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
China is the most trade-dependent nation in history (75-80% imported energy, 80% food inputs) and faces the steepest demographic collapse ever recorded — a combination that makes disassociation as a unified industrialized state within the decade near-certain…
“we're actually looking at the disassociation of China as a unified industrialized nation state within the decade”
90d -7.7% · 180d -9.3% · 1y +2.8%
China’s Collapse, America’s Rise, and What Comes Next — with Peter Zeihan | Prof G Conversations
Two-thirds of solar and wind facility cost is upfront construction financing, capital costs have risen 4x in five years, and as baby boomers retire the private savings pool that funds long-duration projects is shrinking — making the green transition…
“the capital just isn't there for the green transition to happen at all”
90d -9.0% · 180d -12.0% · 1y -45.4%
China’s Collapse, America’s Rise, and What Comes Next — with Peter Zeihan | Prof G Conversations
2025-06-05
India Equities
bullish
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
These four countries have the most favorable demographic profiles among major economies — still early in urbanization with large young populations — positioning them as the primary growth engines for consumption, manufacturing, and labor as China exits the…
“Mexico, Indonesia, India, those and Turkey, those are the big four that look really promising”
90d -2.9% · 180d -0.6% · 1y -12.6%
China’s Collapse, America’s Rise, and What Comes Next — with Peter Zeihan | Prof G Conversations
2025-06-05
SOUTHEAST ASIA EQUITIES
bullish
Prof G Pod (Galloway) · video
Southeast Asia has favorable demographics, an already-established industrial base well-positioned to absorb Chinese manufacturing displacement, existing US alliance ties via Australia and New Zealand, and a billion-person consumption market primed for…
“this is already a billion people with a demographic that is very primed for consumption”
China’s Collapse, America’s Rise, and What Comes Next — with Peter Zeihan | Prof G Conversations
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