Thomas H. Thornton

Former Chief Economist and Global Strategist at a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm managing assets exceeding $20 billion. For nearly a decade, Thornton translated Federal Reserve policy, inflation dynamics, and geopolitical risk into macro positioning frameworks for the firm's Limited Partners; sovereign wealth funds, university endowments, and institutional allocators with decades-long capital horizons.

He watched the investment thesis drift from backing genuine technical disruption toward extracting returns through late-stage financial engineering as a decade of zero interest rates compressed the gap between building and extracting. He left quietly. He writes with the controlled frustration of someone who has been right too many times to remain polite about it.

Thornton publishes from New York.