Media
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The Laboratory on screen: readings, the framework, and the panel conversations.
Podcasts
Podcast
20 Aug 2026
Banking-Vet: “Here’s How Physics Explains Today’s Financial Stress”
Mickey M. Maini joined Nomi Prins on Prinsights Global Spotlight to discuss today's economy, chokepoints and where we are going.
Podcast
4 Aug 2026
The Entropy Trap: What Physics Knows That Markets Don’t, And Why the Next 2 Years Are the Toughest
Mickey M. Maini joined Julia La Roche on The Julia La Roche Show to discuss his book The Entropy Trap, his newsletter The Great Collateral Swap, and why the true risk of the AI boom is hidden in credit default swaps rather than stock valuations.
Podcast
4 Jul 2026
The Biggest Financial Reset of Our Lifetime? Gold, AI & the End of the Old System.
Mickey M. Maini joined Mario Innecco on Maneco64 for a discussion on hidden fragility, unpriced risks and the transition ahead.
Podcast
20 Jun 2026
The Entropy Trap: Why the Old Market Rules Just Inverted
Mickey M. Maini joins The Royalty King host Benjamin for a discussion about the Entropy Trap.
Interviews
Interviews
14 Sep 2026
Compute is The New Oil: ‘The Entropy Trap’ Author Mickey M Maini on The AI Buildout
Mickey M. Maini spoke with Gulf Business about the debt funded AI infrastructure buildout, why compute may outlast some of the balance sheets financing it, and why energy will ultimately determine who wins the AI race.
Interviews
8 Sep 2026
Vietnam’s Challenge to Turn Market Reform Into Long-Term Capital
In an interview with Vietnam Investment Review, Mickey M. Maini discusses Vietnam’s market upgrade and the opportunities emerging across technology, manufacturing, energy, minerals and market infrastructure.
Interviews
14 Aug 2026
We Are Not in a Normal Market Cycle: Here Is What the Data Actually Shows
Mickey M. Maini joined Raghda Ibraheem on Fintech TV’s Capital Markets: Wall Street to MENA to discuss why today’s market stresses point to a transition between financial systems, the signals showing where we are in that process, and why gold is becoming increasingly important to central banks.
Interviews
30 Jul 2026
History Doesn’t Repeat. Monetary Systems Die in the Same Order
Mickey M. Maini joins The Contrarian Capitalist to discuss financial collapse, false-dawn rallies, deflationary risks, and the growing role of AI.
Interviews
28 Jul 2026
Solstice Laboratory Founder Mickey Maini Talks Importance of ‘The Entropy Trap’
Mickey M. Maini joined NYSE Live to explain why today’s economy is in a structural phase transition rather than a normal cycle.
Interviews
9 Jul 2026
Mickey Maini: The Entropy Trap and Growing Market Stress
ZeroHedge featured Mickey M. Maini’s interview with Christopher Whalen of The Institutional Risk Analyst, a conversation Whalen described as one of the publication’s most popular interviews of the year.
Interviews
10 Jun 2026
Mickey Maini: The Entropy Trap and Growing Market Stress
Mickey M. Maini joins Christopher Whalen at The Institutional Risk Analyst to discuss The Entropy Trap, the current state of markets, and the broader economy.
Mentions
Mentions
22 Aug 2026
Chris Freund on The Entropy Trap
Chris Freund, founder and managing partner of Mekong Capital, reviewed The Entropy Trap, highlighting how it applies physics and complex systems to understand financial system transitions.
Mentions
7 Jul 2026
Robert Kiyosaki on X
Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, described The Entropy Trap as “the most important new book for this time in history.”
Mentions
6 Jul 2026
Vladyslav Grabarskyy on The Entropy Trap
"It's probably my favorite book of 2026 so far." — Vladyslav Grabarskyy, host of the Wealth Building Blueprint podcast, highlighting how The Entropy Trap "very elegantly connects" complex topics.
Mentions
4 Jul 2026
The Julia La Roche Show: Julia La Roche and Chris Whalen on The Entropy Trap
On The Julia La Roche Show, Julia La Roche highlighted The Entropy Trap for viewers interested in macroeconomics, investing, and the forces shaping today’s world. Chris Whalen called it “a great book” and described Mickey Maini as bringing a longer view to the intersection of science, finance, markets, and society.
Mentions
3 Jul 2026
Jesse Day and James Rickards discuss The Entropy Trap
On Commodity Culture, Jesse Day and James Rickards discussed The Entropy Trap, including Rickards’ foreword. Jesse described the book as “fantastic,” noting that it makes physics and complexity science accessible, while Rickards said he thinks “very highly of the book” and discussed its physics-based approach to capital markets.
Mentions
23 Jun 2026
Piggo’s Trading Desk / The Stage 4 Debt Trapdoor
Piggo’s Trading Desk calls The Entropy Trap “a fantastic book” and draws on its ideas to examine corporate credit stress, financial engineering, and rising systemic fragility, describing the book’s physics-based approach as “brilliant.”
Mentions
18 Jun 2026
James Rickards on X
"Mainstream economic models are junk science. That's not opinion; data shows they bear no relation to reality. What does work? Physics has the tools. Just apply them to capital markets and you'll see how things actually work." James Rickards on The Entropy Trap.
Mentions
16 Jun 2026
Ferg’s Finds 9.21
"I consumed Mickey's first book on our flight to Spain and highly recommend it." Trader Ferg features The Entropy Trap as a weekly pick, noting its walk through six major historical transitions and its profiles of how Bernard Baruch and Joseph Kennedy navigated their own.
Articles
Recognition
Recognition
6 Aug 2026
The Entropy Trap Returns to #1 Amazon Best Seller in Macroeconomics
For the second time, The Entropy Trap reached #1 on Amazon’s Kindle Best Sellers list in Macroeconomics. Rankings recorded on August 6, 2026.
Recognition
6 Jul 2026
The Entropy Trap Reaches #1 Amazon Best Seller in Macroeconomics
The Entropy Trap reached #1 Amazon Best Seller in Macroeconomics on Kindle and #2 New Release in Physics, with further top placements across related Amazon categories. Rankings recorded on July 6, 2026.
Academic
From the Laboratory
The laboratory’s work has been featured in the Daily Reckoning, ZeroHedge, and The Institutional Risk Analyst.
Essays and research notes on money, markets, and the transition. Occasional, and free.
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