Systems Letter
Three times a week — Monday, Wednesday, and Friday — I send out a short note. Each one takes a current economic or political event and uses it as a doorway into the systems shaping it.
August 16, 2025: Position Before Force
Leverage is often described as a matter of strength, but it is just as much a matter of position. A tool’s force depends on what it rests against — a structure that holds while pressure is applied. In political economy, those fixed points are consistency, time, and alignment.