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Category Archives: Banks
Decoding BlackRock
Per Alliance Theory: BlackRock is an alliance orchestrator that secures its position by managing the collective interests of the global corporate class. While Bank of America aligns with the state and JPMorgan Chase acts as a sovereign peer, BlackRock aligns … Continue reading
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Decoding Bank of America
Per Alliance Theory: Bank of America is an alliance broker that survives by sitting inside the state rather than challenging it. Bank of America does not compete on charm, innovation, or intimacy. Its core strategy is alignment with the most … Continue reading
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Decoding Wells Fargo
Per Alliance Theory: Wells Fargo is an alliance machine that broke its own internal loyalty norms and paid for it publicly. For most of its modern history, Wells Fargo’s advantage was not innovation or glamour. It was trust embedded in … Continue reading
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Decoding PacWest Bancorp
Per Alliance Theory: PacWest Bancorp was an alliance experiment that lost control of its signaling environment. At its peak, PacWest positioned itself as a high-growth, entrepreneur-friendly California bank. That stance is not neutral. In Alliance Theory terms, it aligned PacWest … Continue reading
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Decoding Banc of California
Per Alliance Theory: Banc of California is best understood as an alliance project masquerading as a bank. At the core, it is not optimizing for consumer affection or retail trust. It is optimizing for elite coordination in Southern California. Alliance … Continue reading
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Decoding Jamie Dimon
Per Alliance Theory: Jamie Dimon is not just a CEO of JP Morgan Chase. He is an alliance broker between markets and the state. Start with his core function. Dimon’s primary job is to keep JPMorgan Chase inside the circle … Continue reading
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Decoding JP Morgan Chase
Per Alliance Theory: Start with power and trust. JPMorgan is a keystone institution in the American financial state. It does not merely compete in markets. It stabilizes them. Begin with the core alliance. JPMorgan’s primary alliance is with the U.S. … Continue reading
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Debanking
In a recent interview with Bari Weiss, Marc Andreessen talks about America’s slide soft authoritarianism between 2013 to 2022. Every public pronouncement I remember from Andreesen seemed like commonsense (unlike those of Elon Musk, which are often nonsense). Over the … Continue reading
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Banking As A Political Weapon
00:00 Rodney Martin on Big Tech censorship – Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980) 20:00 Halsey English joins 25:00 Kevin Michael Grace joins 27:00 Halsey discusses his love of Christmas 38:00 The One Hour Orgasm 1:02:00 James … Continue reading
When Saul Steinberg Tried To Take Over Chemical Bank
In 1969, Saul Steinberg bought just under 5% of Chemical Bank. After a few drinks, he boasted in a Washington bar that he was going to take a controlling interest in the bank. Somebody overheard him and the next day, … Continue reading