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Weekly notes on markets, capital, and infrastructure

Notas semanales sobre mercados, capital e infraestructura

31 issues to date, written by Diego Molina, each available as a PDF. Publications are written in English.

CAPITAL MARKETS

The Compute Dividend

Half of S&P 500 earnings growth this year is one industrial buildout wearing a software multiple

Aug 17, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MACRO SIGNALS

The Correlation Break

Gold sat out the 2026 equity rally — the valuation gap that leaves behind has a precedent

Aug 17, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MONETARY POLICY

The Debasement Trade

Central banks are buying gold at a record pace while ETF investors hesitate

Aug 17, 2026 Download PDF ↓
COMMODITIES

The Miners' Lag

Gold-mining equities are underperforming spot gold this cycle — that gap is the more useful signal

Aug 17, 2026 Download PDF ↓
PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION

The Passive Ceiling

A \"diversified\" S&P 500 index fund is now a concentrated bet on ten balance sheets

Aug 17, 2026 Download PDF ↓
PAYMENTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

The Authorization Gap

Agentic AI in financial services is stalled by regulation, not capability

Aug 3, 2026 Download PDF ↓
HIGHER EDUCATION

The Cognitive Debt Generation

What students lose before they notice it’s gone

Aug 3, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MODEL STRATEGY

The Convergence Illusion

Open-weight models are closing the benchmark gap — enterprise adoption is moving the other way

Aug 3, 2026 Download PDF ↓
CAPITAL ALLOCATION

The Underwriting Signal

What AI governance budgets reveal about how capex is being risk-rated

Aug 3, 2026 Download PDF ↓
HIGHER EDUCATION

The Verification Crisis

Universities can no longer tell who actually learned what

Aug 3, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Charter Fork

Jul 27, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Compute Race

Jul 27, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The First Cheque

Jul 27, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Presale Reckoning

Jul 27, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Prevention Premium

Jul 27, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Governance Gap

Jul 20, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Residency Line

Jul 20, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MEDIAVERTICAL

The Sovereign Bet

Jul 20, 2026 Download PDF ↓
CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS / LATIN AMERICA

Dollars Without Borders

Latin America isn’t waiting for permission to fix cross-border payments.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
PAYMENTS M&A / PRIVATE EQUITY

Funding Both Sides

A $53bn cash bid for PayPal shows payments consolidation now runs through infrastructure ownership — and the same buyer is bankrolling rivals on both sides of it.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
CURRENCY MARKETS / CANADIAN DOLLAR

Loonie Whiplash

The Canadian dollar’s 2026 story isn’t strength or weakness — it’s a range to plan around.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
PAYMENTS AND FINTECH / CANADIAN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

The Compliance Bar

Canada’s new Stablecoin Act is setting up a compliance-driven consolidation wave, well before the framework is fully in force.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
STABLECOINS / REGULATORY & INSTITUTIONAL CONVERGENCE

The Convergence Trade

Stablecoins spent early 2026 becoming regulated financial infrastructure — and law, not hype, drove the shift.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
INFRASTRUCTURE M&A / TREASURY & FX

The Line Below the Model

FX exposure and treasury structuring routinely get underweighted in infrastructure M&A relative to valuation and financing terms — and it's the gap most likely to erode returns after close.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
CAPITAL MARKETS / TOKENIZATION

The Quiet Trillion

Enterprise tokenization has quietly stopped being a crypto story.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
MINING AND CRITICAL MINERALS / CANADIAN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

The Reserve Play

Canadian mining mergers and acquisitions in 2026 are driven by reserve replacement and sovereignty policy, not gold prices alone.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE / CANADIAN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

The Second Owner

Canadian energy and infrastructure mergers and acquisitions are shifting from building new assets to buying operating ones.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
PAYMENTS INFRASTRUCTURE / STABLECOINS

The Second Rail

Stablecoins aren’t replacing SWIFT — they’re becoming the layer sitting on top of it.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
INFRASTRUCTURE ADVISORY / SPONSOR PERSPECTIVE

The Sponsor's Chair

Advisors who have built and operated infrastructure assets catch structuring risks that pure deal-modeling experience misses — because they've had to live with the deal after signing, not just get it signed.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
ENERGY TRANSITION / UNDERWRITING DISCIPLINE

The Underwriting Carries Over

The discipline oil & gas M&A demands — reserve risk, off-take risk, cycle risk — is the same discipline the energy transition needs, just applied to new asset classes.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
CORPORATE TREASURY / FX STRATEGY

The Volatility Tax

Why “wait and see” has become the most expensive currency strategy on the table.

Jul 14, 2026 Download PDF ↓
All 31 issues shown are real, dated publications pulled directly from the working archive.