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PolisPandit covers the institutional and financial mechanics of political power. It’s the place where law, markets, and policy intersect.
I’m John Polonis. I spent roughly a decade on Wall Street as a lawyer, first on commodities trading floors at Glencore, then covering a currencies and emerging markets rates desk at JPMorgan. I left finance in late 2021 to be present for my son.
PolisPandit is what I do now.
Here we go deeper than most media and reporting. Most markets coverage stops at the price action. Most legal coverage stops at the court ruling. I’m interested in the levers underneath those stories — procedural moves, institutional challenges, and the regulatory architecture that’s actually doing the work.
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The newsletter publishes a free weekly issues that include my takes on the biggest stories that week, a deeper Wednesday flagship piece (free preview with a paid structural analysis), and occasional Sunday notes on a political thriller I’m writing or anything else I’m reading.
So if you want financial and legal systems explained to you clearly and deeply from a human voice who has lived it, you’ve come to the right place.
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See you in the stories.
