Veracity Insights

  • August 19, 2025

    CATL mine closure exposes China’s continued dominance over global lithium markets

    In this edition of Critical Thinking, Ellen Lenny-Pessagno and Peter Hütte analyze what the closure of the CATL mine in Jiangxi province, a major producer...

  • July 17, 2025

    Trump’s copper tariff will impact myriad sectors. Here’s what companies need to know.

    In this edition of Critical Minerals, Ellen Lenny-Pessagno and Peter Hütte consider how the Trump administration’s planned 50-percent tariff on copper imports will affect companies...

  • July 9, 2025

    Public Diplomacy Council of America

    Veracity Senior Counselor Daniel Crocker will be a featured speaker on July 14 at a forum hosted by the Public Diplomacy Council of America focusing on the essential relationship between public diplomacy and those pursuing economic and commercial development. The panel will also include Ambassador and PDCA board member Earl Anthony Wayne, Ambassador and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Rand Corporation Charles P. Ries, and Larry Schwartz, former deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. The session is open to the public via Zoom.

  • June 16, 2025

    A mining policy without miners

    In this edition of Critical Minerals, Peter Hütte analyzes the delta between ambition and reality given the dearth of American mining capabilities on a global...

  • April 30, 2025

    Geopolitical volatility and portfolio resilience

    Veracity's founder and executive chairman, Steven Fox, appeared on a roundtable this week with John Greaves, Kate Barker, Elizabeth Fernando, and others to discuss geopolitical volatility and portfolio resilience. Fox noted that although there is a strong possibility of a "lost decade," as Japan experienced beginning in 1990, the damage can be mitigated through regulatory reform and an increased focus on risk management in a fundamentally transformed world.

  • April 9, 2025

    The World of Risk 2025

    At the Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria’s The World of Risk 2025 panel, Veracity CEO Benjamin Weiss joined leading government affairs and risk advisors to discuss the geopolitical risks shaping today’s global landscape and their implications for businesses. The panel explored how corporate leaders and investors can adapt amid increasingly unpredictable global politics, heightened trade tensions, the "national securitization of everything," and the rise of AI.