How do we make money when the Empire strikes back ?

Politics and financial markets have interacted since the birth of human civilization and this shall continue to manifest itself till the end of times for the very foundation of markets is marred in politics. Both markets and politics share one major thing in common; they are both human endeavors and both have a degree of predictability. There is for example nothing natural about corporate laws which themselves help to define the market. While modern financial practitioners have become fixated by the increasing use of quantitative models of late, a focus on the numbers instead of the political consequences...