Financial Leverage
The public thinks power is tanks and missiles. Professionals know that power is also liquidity, financing, and optionality.
Financial leverage is not loud. It is structural. It sits in rates, refinancing cycles, trade credit, FX settlement, and the ability to survive longer than the other side.
When liquidity tightens, weak structures break. Those with liquidity buy, dictate terms, and control time.
The ability to act — or not act — forces everyone else to price risk continuously.
Markets can stay irrational longer than weak balance sheets can stay alive.
A borrower with a deadline is a borrower without leverage.
The stakes have never been higher. The world is repricing risk across decades. If you fail to take initiative to secure the future now, you will be compromised going forward.