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The Universal Owner — Thursday, July 9, 2026: The sovereign balance sheet becomes the binding constraint

NATO's 5%-of-GDP defense-investment commitment and the OBR's unsustainable-debt warning converge with the Hormuz oil shock on one of a universal owner's least-diversifiable exposures: long-dated government debt.

The Universal Owner — Thursday, July 9, 2026: The sovereign balance sheet becomes the binding constraint

The Universal Owner · Daily podcast · Thursday, July 9, 2026

NATO's 5%-of-GDP defense-investment commitment and the OBR's unsustainable-debt warning converge with the Hormuz oil shock on one of a universal owner's least-diversifiable exposures: long-dated government debt.

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