Adrian Monck
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The Dirty Secrets
What we actually know about the Epstein network
open.substack.com
The Dirty Secrets. What we actually know about the Epstein network. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
It’s worked for the Daily Mail for decades so why begrudge ordinary folks!
February 9, 2026 at 9:27 AM
It’s worked for the Daily Mail for decades so why begrudge ordinary folks!
One thing to remember about these dinners. Everyone attending will probably have got bios, asked who they were sitting next to or sitting opposite, etc.
Epstein emailed himself the photo, possibly after a dinner with tech moguls.
Mark Zuckerberg And Elon Musk Seen At Dinner In Epstein Files Photo
Epstein emailed himself the photo, possibly after a dinner with tech moguls.
www.forbes.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:12 AM
One thing to remember about these dinners. Everyone attending will probably have got bios, asked who they were sitting next to or sitting opposite, etc.
Reposted by Adrian Monck
The most interesting story in global markets right now isn’t “Sell America.”
It’s that reallocating capital toward faster-growing, less-correlated economies could raise returns and reduce risk at the same time.
My Essay for #Bloomberg on why this is good news!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It’s that reallocating capital toward faster-growing, less-correlated economies could raise returns and reduce risk at the same time.
My Essay for #Bloomberg on why this is good news!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Global Capital’s Break With the US Is Long Overdue
Trump’s policies have accelerated an overdue shift, as US market advantages fade and investors reassess their heavy exposure to American assets.
www.bloomberg.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:28 PM
The most interesting story in global markets right now isn’t “Sell America.”
It’s that reallocating capital toward faster-growing, less-correlated economies could raise returns and reduce risk at the same time.
My Essay for #Bloomberg on why this is good news!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
It’s that reallocating capital toward faster-growing, less-correlated economies could raise returns and reduce risk at the same time.
My Essay for #Bloomberg on why this is good news!
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Someone who rose without trace…
How Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne, a onetime PR man and adviser to David Cameron
Epstein guided him in setting up Hedosophia (now one of UK’s most important start-up backers)
and even appointed him to one of his own investment vehicles
www.ft.com/content/8b04...
Epstein guided him in setting up Hedosophia (now one of UK’s most important start-up backers)
and even appointed him to one of his own investment vehicles
www.ft.com/content/8b04...
Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne
Convicted sex offender helped establish tech fund Hedosophia after Osborne offered to help clean up Epstein’s image
www.ft.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Someone who rose without trace…
Who could have guessed that the answer to the question of how to deal with a sleazy, greedy regime would not be to find a sleazy, greedy representative.
February 5, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Who could have guessed that the answer to the question of how to deal with a sleazy, greedy regime would not be to find a sleazy, greedy representative.
Reposted by Adrian Monck
college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
The Dirty Secrets. What we actually know about the Epstein network. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
The Dirty Secrets
What we actually know about the Epstein network
open.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The Dirty Secrets. What we actually know about the Epstein network. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
Bad news from BIS. High-debt countries might find themselves unable to fight inflation or stimulate growth effectively. www.bis.org/publ/work132...
The perils of narrowing fiscal spaces
When public debt is elevated, the fiscal cost of fighting inflation rises sharply, as interest rate hikes increase government interest expenditures. We formalize this mechanism in a nonlinear New Keyn...
www.bis.org
February 3, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Bad news from BIS. High-debt countries might find themselves unable to fight inflation or stimulate growth effectively. www.bis.org/publ/work132...
Unappointing appointees seems pretty reasonable.
February 3, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Unappointing appointees seems pretty reasonable.
Like Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez leaving south Texas.
Bad Bunny winning Album of the Year at the Grammys was “a breathtaking moment,” Brady Brickner-Wood writes. The Puerto Rican superstar dedicated the award to “all the people who had to leave their homeland, their country, to follow their dreams.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mzcGyo
How Bad Bunny Saved the Grammys
At a ceremony that got things uncharacteristically right, the Puerto Rican superstar claimed the top prize and criticized Trump’s deployment of ICE.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
February 3, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Like Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez leaving south Texas.
“Brexit, just the beginning”
February 3, 2026 at 9:24 AM
“Brexit, just the beginning”
Who might stop an attack on Iran? The regionally resentful. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
The Regionally Resentful
Everyone‘s watching for war with Iran. But something deeper is shifting in the Middle East.
open.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Who might stop an attack on Iran? The regionally resentful. open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
🙏 - saw it via Matthew Booker
February 2, 2026 at 10:18 AM
🙏 - saw it via Matthew Booker
“But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll.”
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll.”
“Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless.
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless.
“Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him. There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man.
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him. There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man.
“Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains.
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains.
“But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations…
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations…
“His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner.
He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men (they) won by knowing the right people.
He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men (they) won by knowing the right people.
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner.
He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men (they) won by knowing the right people.
He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men (they) won by knowing the right people.
“His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery.
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
“His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery.
Who goes Nazi? (Aug 1941) by Dorothy Thompson
“Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
“Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
February 2, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Who goes Nazi? (Aug 1941) by Dorothy Thompson
“Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
“Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
The End of China’s Central Military Commission
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open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
The End of China’s Central Military Commission
What the Zhang Youxia purge tells us about Xi Jinping’s China
open.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:09 AM
The End of China’s Central Military Commission
open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...
North American Death Squads
I’ve been in Minneapolis the last few days reporting on the ICE raids happening across the city. This morning federal agents shot and killed a man, identified by the AP as Alex Pretti. This marks the third shooting by federal agents since Operation Metro Surge started in Minnesota last month.
January 24, 2026 at 10:40 PM
North American Death Squads
Having seen Mark Carney operate around the edges of WEF for 15 years I can only be grateful that decency and intelligence and realism still have a place in democratic public life. This is a speech that any Western leader could have given. You might be asking why yours didn’t…
January 21, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Having seen Mark Carney operate around the edges of WEF for 15 years I can only be grateful that decency and intelligence and realism still have a place in democratic public life. This is a speech that any Western leader could have given. You might be asking why yours didn’t…