Strategic Monk

When lost, follow your breath! Investment banker. Economy nerd. Life, seen through a meditative lens.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

Here are my 5 commandments to better life:

1. Calm is a superpower.
2. Comfort in discomfort.
3. Perseverance - keep the hustle on.
4. Be the most positive person you know.
5. Enjoy the moment.

#StayCalm #LiveYourBestLife #BePositive #Hustle #SelfCare #SelfGrowth

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

16-YEAR-OLD GIRLS TEAR THROUGH GOVT’S “ANTI-NATIONAL” SCRIPT 🔥

REPORTER: What happened here?

KANIKA 😡: We were marching peacefully. Police pushed us, hit us, tore clothes and hurt students. Is this why they have power?

REPORTER: Why did you come?

ANSHIKA 🔥: We skipped school because we care about our future. If fighting for education is wrong, then what is right?

REPORTER: What is your message?

RIYA 🎯: We are 12th-class students. If we stay silent today, this broken system will become our tomorrow. We want education, safety and accountability.

THE MOMENT: These girls did more damage to the “anti-national” narrative than any speech could. They came with school bags and left power exposed.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

@CJP_for_India This is not the solution.

What will happen if hospitals stop admitting critical patients?

[𝐁𝐚𝐚𝐩𝐮 𝐁𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚 @BapuBommaSpeaks]

In Presidium school, sector 31, Noida a 10 year old Girl child has found dead, and sedatives found in her organs.. no explanation.. no action.. no FIR for 23 days.. this mother is fighting alone..
a desperate mother asking the right questions.

WHO GAVE A SEDATIVE TO MY CHILD?
WHY WAS THE REPORT HIDDEN FROM ME FOR MONTHS?
WHY ALL 16 CCTV OF SCHOOL NOT WORKING ?
WHY IS EVERYONE SILENT?
WHY NO ARRESTS WERE MADE IN TEN MONTHS?
WHO IS BEHIND THIS?

Hello @noidapolice @UPPViralCheck @Uppolice @myogiadityanath @NCWIndia is this how you save girl child? When are you going to answer to this murder?

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

@GTA_VI_6_ The wild part isn't the $1.5B budget. It's the payback speed. The Burj Khalifa took ~decades to recoup. GTA 6 does it in days. Same price tag, completely different physics.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

One asset is steel and concrete. The other is code that prints money on a release date.
We stopped building wealth out of things you can touch a long time ago.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

A video game just cost as much to build as the tallest building on earth.
GTA 6: ~$1.5 billion to develop.
The Burj Khalifa: ~$1.5 billion to build.

One took 6 years and a thousand engineers. The other reshaped Dubai's skyline.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

Here's the part that breaks your brain:
The skyscraper took decades to pay back. The game pays itself back in days.
Analysts think Take-Two recoups the entire $1.5B within the first few days of launch. GTA 5 did $1B in 72 hours — in 2013.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

Cash still pays. Your refi doesn't.
The people who win from here aren't the ones waiting for rates to drop.
They're the ones who stopped waiting.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

The Fed just did something it hasn't done in this entire cycle. And it changes the math on your mortgage, your savings, and your next big purchase.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

Translation for your wallet:
The cheap mortgage you've been waiting for isn't coming this year. 30-year fixed is stuck near 6.5% and the relief everyone priced in just evaporated.
The "higher for longer" everyone called temporary is starting to look structural.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

@realtrumpstein @grok did elon mar this tweet ?

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

@AstroCounselKK And the worse affect of it’s to be seen. As the people who are affected most by this infidelity are kids.

These kids are growing up seeing all this — witnessing broken families.

We have seen its affect on western countries.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

It is a "Short-Term Survival" move that funds the very enemy they are fighting. This is the definition of a failed strategy. 

The U.S. is so cash-strapped and inflation-terrified that it is "paying" Iran in oil revenue to stop the oil price spike.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

Selling the lungs to save the heart.

Given the equity is crashing, only profitable trades are to sell the gold and silver — to avoid margin calls/ remain solvent.

[Gordon 🐂 @GordonGekko]

Can someone explain why Gold and Silver are CRASHING?! 🩸

Remember, I did warn you…

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

Wha it also implies is that US guarantee and assurance has lost its credibility.

What we are seeing is a demise of #PetroDolllar

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

The US military, the most sophisticated in history, is copying Iran’s low-cost drone model because they recognize the cost math is unsustainable. CENTCOM’s Task Force Scorpion Strike has started using cheap one-way attack drones modeled after Iran’s own Shahed drones.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

AI won't make humans redundant. It'll make ideas unstoppable. We're heading into the golden age of the small business — more founders, lower capital barriers, bigger ambitions. If you have an idea, the world is yours for the taking. The pessimism around AI? I don't buy it.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

follow Haryana’s lead, the cost of funds will spike, killing the NIM expansion.
In banking, you don't buy a governance failure until the forensic audit is public.

[Strategic Monk @KuriousUs]

#IDFCFirst has spent years building a narrative of being a "disciplined, ethical, and digital-first" lender to attract CASA deposits. A fraud involving government accounts and manual overrides shatters that narrative. If other government or institutional depositors (cont.)