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Mickey Maini, founder of Solstice Laboratory, makes his debut on The Julia La Roche Show. In this episode, he lays out the thesis behind his new book The Entropy Trap: financial systems, like all systems, require energy to hold their shape, and as complexity rises and trust decays, the energy needed to maintain order climbs until the system transitions into something new. He argues we're between two systems now, sitting in the third of five stages — control — one policy misstep away from fracture. Maini explains why the Fed's real job this decade is defending collateral rather than setting rates, why three stresses (geopolitics, debt, and innovation) are compounding rather than merely adding for the first time in decades, and why the honest tell on AI is the credit market rather than the equity market. Along the way: what central bank gold buying is actually signaling, his scenario range for gold, the US-China choke point war that will determine who writes the next system, and why the trader who made $100 million in 1929 lost it all while the one who ignored prices did fine. Maini began in investment banking, then scaled an emerging-markets conglomerate from $100 million to over $5 billion as its CEO, then taught at one of Asia's leading public policy schools. Today he runs his family office and Solstice Laboratory (solsticelabs.com) - an independent research lab in Dubai that applies physics to markets and geopolitics, studying the moments when systems stop moving in cycles and change state. Thank you to our sponsors: Kalshi - download the Kalshi app and use code JULIA to get $10 when you trade $10. http://kalshi.com/r/JULIA Monetary Metals - learn more at https://www.monetary-metals.com/julia/ Links: The Entropy Trap book: https://www.amazon.com/Entropy-Trap-Physics-Knows-Markets/dp/B0H1ZP7NZX/ref=sr_1_1 Substack: https://solsticelaboratory.substack.com/ Website: https://solsticelabs.com/ Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro and welcome: Mickey Maini, The Entropy Trap 1:58 — Order is rented, and the rent just went up 2:40 — The five stages: print, spend, control, fracture, force 4:24 — 1973 economically, 1938 militarily, 1978 for the Fed 6:24 — What tips us from control into fracture 9:02 — Why every Fed intervention buys less time than the last 13:00 — The Fed's next decade: defending collateral, not setting rates 15:42 — Indonesia 1998, and why the models stopped working 17:10 — Indonesia had surgery. The US took morphine. 20:44 — Three stresses that compound: geopolitics, debt, innovation 25:00 — Gold as money's ground state, and what central banks are signaling 27:10 — The scenarios: $8K–25K, base case $10–15K 30:31 — Livermore, Baruch, Kennedy — who lost it all and who won 34:30 — The tell on AI isn't equity. Watch the Oracle CDS. 36:00 — 75% of US growth is one trade 38:03 — Five to seven years to a new system, the next two the toughest 39:04 — China settles in gold. The US builds stablecoins. 41:35 — Velocity of stress: the master signal, and why it hasn't turned 50:42 — What the dashboard is flashing right now 53:04 — Don't own long bonds. Invest in yourself.
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