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The Risk-Free Stack
By Shanaka Anslem Perera
June 3, 2026
For seventy years, the dollar and the Treasury were a single trade.
To own one was to own the other. A central bank that wanted the safety of the United States bought American debt. In buying...
The Preferred-Stock Reactor
On June 1, Strategy disclosed it had sold thirty-two Bitcoin the week before. The trade was too small to move the price and exactly large enough to rewrite what Strategy is.
By Shanaka Anslem Perera | June 3, 2026
The Sale Tha...
The Counterfeit Clock
By Shanaka Anslem Perera | 2nd June, 2026
I. A Microphone Nobody Switched Off
On the third of September, 2025, in the vast stone expanse of Tiananmen Square, two of the most powerful men alive walked past a column of intercontin...
Clearing Sovereignty
Washington built an up-to-forty-billion-dollar insurance machine to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. It wrote no cover. At the same time, United States forces reportedly helped guide around seventy commercial vessels through the strait with...
The Empty Laboratory
By Shanaka Anslem Perera · June 1, 2026
A kilometer beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, inside a chamber of liquid xenon chilled to roughly 100 degrees below zero Celsius and buried under enough rock to strain out the ceaseless...
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Author of The Ascent Begins | Independent Analyst | The forces shaping money, geopolitics, AI, science, and sovereignty don’t move in silos. They move in symphony. I map the collapse and the reconstruction of order.
I write about geopolitics, markets, and power. Trained as an engineer, so I tend to read the world in systems, incentives, and failure modes.
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