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PLIPDECO is making recent headlines for all the wrong reasons, we dive back into some old financial analysis we did on the company updating for recent headlines. Rental yields are falling, lease renewals are stalled, and receivables are piling up. Despite a recent dividend hike, PLIPDECO’s fundamentals show stagnation in port pricing, underinvestment in infrastructure, and governance turmoil at the board level. Asset rich, performance poor, this is a façade that may not hold up through the next valuation cycle.

PLIPDECO: Behind the Port, A Rising Sea of Red Flags PLIPDECO, the state controlled port and industrial landlord at the center of Trinidad’s most strategic petro-industrial zone, has been making headlines throughout 2024 and 2025, not for expansion or innovation, but for governance turmoil, tenant disputes, and mounting operational scrutiny.

Hidden Leverage: How Trinidad Is Quietly Managing Legacy Debt Through Heritage Petroleum

What looks like a solvent, dividend-paying oil company is actually something more complex.

Trinidad’s Heritage Petroleum pays billions in Petrotrin’s old debt but doesn’t record it as an expense. Instead, it calls it a “receivable” from its parent, TPHL, which has no income and no repayment plan. The result? Heritage’s balance sheet looks strong, while the government avoids recording this debt in its official books. Read more below

Hidden in Plain Sight: How T&T's Heritage Petroleum Became the Engine of a Shadow Fiscal State This is the story of how Heritage, born from the ashes of the defunct Petrotrin, became the workhorse of a state structure that is as brilliant in design as it is precarious in ex*****on.

As the GENIUS Act advances and the stablecoin market approaches $2T, a quiet revolution is forming in how the U.S. Treasury might fund itself.

By mandating stablecoins be backed 1:1 with ultra-short Treasuries, the Act creates a structural buyer base for T-bills. If Bessent were managing issuance, this demand could be strategically harnessed to anchor front-end yields allowing Treasury to limit long-bond issuance and ease upward pressure on term premiums. More below

Bessent’s Strategic Stablecoin Plan: Using Digital Dollar Demand to Reshape US Treasury Funding As the US stablecoin market rapidly matures and the GENIUS Act advances in Congress, a new debt management strategy is quietly forming, that could fundamentally reshape the US Treasury market. At the center of this evolution is the potential for a Bessent led Treasury strategy that leverages regulat...

In April 2025, the S&P 500 surged nearly 20%, BUT!! it wasn’t driven by retail FOMO or AI hype. A possible real driver? A wave of synthetic institutional flows from Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands via UCITS ETFs and total return swaps. These flows were hedged by dealers, triggering a powerful gamma squeeze that forced even more buying. This was a plumbing-based rally, not a sentiment one.

The Silent Surge: How Synthetic Flows Drove the April 2025 US Equity Rally his rally was powered not by sentiment, but by a convergence of synthetic foreign capital flows, dealer positioning, and gamma dynamics, with the plumbing running through Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Cayman Islands.