Patrick

Lawyer | Investment Banking | ex-Diplomat | Writing on law, finance & geopolitics at the fault lines of a fractured world | NY 🇺🇸 | Substack: FINSPIRE 📬

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

Nothing says I'm healthy like seeing 22 medical specialists in a "routine" checkup.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump had 22 medical specialists assess him as part of his latest checkup, according to a medical report recently released by the White House, who also declined to identify which physicians assessed him. https://t.co/RooASN5kaj

[YallNuckingFuts @YallNuckingFuts]

@JoJoFromJerz He seems fine to me

[Sergio 🇫🇷 @Seergiot3ck]

Todo el mundo viendo el partido inaugural del Mundial:

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

It looks like a good time to sell my house in Spain... 🇪🇸

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

I'd also be pissed... But rent-control policies are making Europe's housing shortage worse.
https://t.co/Ade4fPtm50

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

The market right now

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

A Manhattan congressional race is the first real test of AI as a political issue. What it reveals is that the left/right framework tells you almost nothing about where someone stands on the issue.

Read more here:👇
https://t.co/ZwAtmdd9xS

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

Most people look at wars as isolated events.

I look at them as part of a Big Cycle that has repeated many times, so for me watching what is happening is like watching a movie I've seen many times before.

What we’re seeing now with Iran and the battle of the Strait of Hormuz is part of that cycle and is connected to and will have big implications for what happens all over the world. 

I explore these issues with those who run governments, geopolitical experts, and people around the world, and almost all agree that it will have big consequences for the monetary order, the domestic political order, and the international geopolitical order.

That is why I believe it is important to see the war with Iran as part of a greater world war and see to how it is evolving as a big cycle. 

I created this condensed five-minute animation to provide an overview of these patterns and the cause-and-effect relationships behind them. For a deeper understanding, I have linked the full 45-minute video, “Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order,” in the comments.

[DanC ₿ @decentralised82]

@SpencerHakimian I feel bad for his VP
Me almost got hung, the other about to get thrown under the Bu’s for his fu*kups

[S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030]

How stock market bubbles work:

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

‘Enough Is Enough’: Democrats Threaten Shutdown Over ICE Funding. They should and they must! https://t.co/YlDrA9b1fy

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Today is the tipping point.

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

To lower the temperature in this country, Amazon could start by banning customers who racially harass and intimidate delivery drivers. Real practical consequences.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The years since Morena took control of Mexico have been the most sluggish in a quarter century. Analysts think its economy will grow by 1.3% this year—about half of the Latin American average https://t.co/61JrkmooMn

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

U.S dollar share of global reserves has fallen to the lowest level in a century. Is this forshadowing the end of Anerica’s exorbitant privilege?

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

Europeans voting with their feet.

[Patrick @MesonPatrick]

Krugman said it best: “It’s a Nobel medal, a symbol of the honor, not the honor itself. Only a vain, insecure fool would imagine that blackmailing someone into handing their medal over adds to his stature.”

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Bitcoin falls -$4,000 in 2 hours as mass liquidations return.

$400 million worth of levered longs have been liquidated over the last 60 minutes.

[IMF @IMFNews]

Money has come a long way since the first uses of shells or coins millennia ago. Today, it may be considered our most used technology, as most people use digitally recorded money. Our latest Analyze This video explains tokenization and why programmable money is useful.