Headline stock indexes may be hovering near records, but beneath the surface, economic volatility and traditional financial models are increasingly unstable. The tools that investors on Wall Street relied on for decades, ranging from standard volatility indexes to conventional central bank frameworks, no longer reflect the compounding stress across geopolitics, debt levels and complex supply chains.
In this special conversation, Prinsights is sitting down with Mickey Maini, founder of Solstice Laboratory, former executive at Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank, and author of the new book, The Entropy Trap.
Drawing on over two decades in global banking and the principles of econophysics, Mickey explains why the world is not merely experiencing a standard economic cycle, but rather a measurable structural phase transition. The book is also getting notable acclaim with Jim Rickards, a familiar voice here at Prinsights, sharing that the book “is a compelling attempt to replace pattern recognition with measurement, and the reading is sobering.”
In the video above, you’ll discover:
Why every monetary breakdown throughout history, stretching from ancient Rome to 1929 and 2008 crises, progresses through money printing, spending, control, fracture, and conflict.
How China and emerging markets are building a gold-settlement architecture while the U.S. leans into debt-backed digital assets.
How to protect capital against both high inflation and credit-driven deflation by owning hard assets, critical mineral choke points (like tungsten and rare earths), and royalty streams that generate cash regardless of price direction.
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