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Five pieces. Each one does something a wire recap cannot.

All five are free on Substack. Read them in any order. Together they show the range of the note and the edge inside it: a call, the evidence for it, the case against it, and the number that would prove it wrong.

2026-09-04

Proxies dressed up as the real thing: an unemployment rate, a guidance path, a credit index, a fund flow, each one restatable by its owner. Then the one asset that is not. Four calls, four kills. Start here if you want to see how the note argues.

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2026-09-02

The bond repricing everyone blamed on oil, taken apart: the curve did the opposite of what a supply shock does, so the move is policy wearing a supply costume. The note that carries the sharpest THE CALL of the summer, and the one the argument rules were rebuilt around.

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2026-08-11

Hormuz closed, oil at ninety, the curve backing up, and equities pricing almost none of it. The trade is not a direction, it is the variance that is on sale into a binary. Start here if you want to see how a mispricing gets built into a position rather than a prediction.

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2026-07-08

A ceasefire with the shelf life of milk, and a regime that cannot be modeled with a coherent-state playbook because nobody can say who is running it. Geopolitics read as positioning, with the crowded trades named.

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2026-06-26

The first crack in the AI capex story, found in a phone price hike and a memory shortage rather than in a headline. Twelve stocks at highs inside an index at highs, record inflows chased by record outflows. Start here if you want the breadth argument before it was consensus.

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