Alex Krainer - Iran War Goes Global - Economic, Energy & Food Crisis, March 15, 2026

Alex Kreiner (born 1970) is a writer and hedge fund manager based in Monaco. Alex was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, a socialist country under a one-party communist regime. At 17, he joined a student exchange program and spent a year in California. Extending his stay in the United States, he enrolled in university there and then transferred to Switzerland, where he earned a degree in business and economics. From Switzerland, he traveled to Venezuela, where he lived for a year and experienced his first banking crisis, when nine of Venezuela&16 largest banks failed, leading to the complete collapse of the country&economy. Having failed in his plans and endeavors, he returned to Croatia and joined the army, where he remained until 1995, during the final stages of the Croatian War of Independence. Shortly after completing his military service, Alex found work for an oil trading company in Monaco. By 2000, he had become the company&risk manager and led the research and development program in market analysis and the application of neural networks and artificial intelligence to trading in financial and commodity markets. By 2007, Alex founded his own investment management firm and became one of the few managers to achieve a positive return on investment (+27%) during the 2008 financial crisis. Over the next six years, his fund outperformed the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Index, a benchmark index of commodity funds. This paved the way for him to enter the asset management...