“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.” – Colin Powell’s Rule 3 Argue hard for your idea. Let it go when a better one comes along. Join our Jan. 2027 cohort #ColinPowell# #PublicService#

Everything landing on your desk at once? Remember General Powell’s Rule #1#: "It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning." Keep perspective so your team can keep moving. Our Jan 2027 cohort is now enrolling! #ColinPowell# #Leadership#

A decision goes the wrong way. A project stalls. A partner drops the ball. You will get frustrated. General Powell's second rule: "Get mad, then get over it." Your team takes its cue from how quickly you recover. Feel it, then move forward. #ColinPowell# #Leadership#

Today we remember General Colin L. Powell: soldier, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Secretary of State, and Professional Development Academy faculty member. His 13 Rules of Leadership still guide leaders today. Which one will you put to work this week? #ColinPowell# #Leadership#

General Colin Powell understood what was best in this country, and tried to bring his own life, career, and public statements in line with that ideal. Michelle and I will always look to him as an example of what America—and Americans—can and should be.

Prez Donald Trump announced that the United States had entered into an agreement giving it permanent control over security in Greenland, called it an Infinite Life Agreement with no end, and said everything had been agreed that day. It has not been signed. Its text is unpublished. Two parliaments must still vote. That comes from the Danish prime minister's own office, which said the same day that the three governments expect to sign in the coming week at the United Nations General Assembly, and that the agreement then enters into force subject to the necessary national parliamentary procedures. A negotiated bargain exists. Binding law does not, yet! The duration being announced is 75 years old. The Defense of Greenland Agreement of 27th April 1951 runs for the duration of the North Atlantic Treaty, which is to say it already has no expiry date. The Igaliku amendment of 6th August 2004 already named Greenland's own government as a party, signed by Colin Powell and Per Stig Moller, and its own text states it enters into force on the date of signature. The 2004 amendment was law the day it was signed. The 2026 text is not signed and then needs Copenhagen and Nuuk. There is a closer benchmark. The last US-Denmark defence agreement was signed in Washington on 21st December 2023 and entered into force on 1st July 2025, 558 days later, and it expressly does not cover Greenland or the Faroes. President Trump also said no previous president was able to do anything about Greenland. The 1941 Kauffmann agreement, the 1951 defence agreement and the 2004 amendment are the record. No cost is the second claim. Sec. Marco Rubio put it as zero cost to the US taxpayer. The United States already holds an operations and maintenance contract for Pituffik Space Base with a ceiling near 3.95 billion dollars running to 2034. The 1951 agreement already provided for no compensation to Denmark inside agreed defence areas. So no cost is coherent only as no purchase price for the island, which was the demand that got dropped. What would genuinely be new is narrower and sharper than control. US officials briefing anonymously describe an explicit ban on non-NATO bases and troops, a screen on sensitive investments aimed at Russia and China, and rights that survive Greenlandic independence. The first two are plausible additions. The third would bind a state that does not yet exist. None of the three appear in the Danish statement, which speaks instead of sovereignty, territorial integrity and the right to self-determination. Eleven days before the announcement, Ursula von der Leyen stood in Nuuk with Frederiksen and Nielsen and announced 200 million euros for connectivity, clean energy and critical raw materials. Those are close to the sectors an investment screen would police, which makes the first real test of that screen European rather than Chinese. A survey commissioned by The Copenhagen Post, fieldwork in late January 2026 with 610 respondents, found 5% of Greenlanders favouring closer cooperation with the United States and 65% favouring the European Union. Eight months old, and the only public sample there is. Signature is expected at the General Assembly this week. Then the Folketing. Then the Inatsisartut. Publication at signature is the first moment three incompatible summaries can be checked against one document. An announcement can be permanent on the day it is made. An agreement cannot be permanent before it is signed and before the two parliaments the Danish state itself named have voted.

Want to know the ultimate test of a trader? Hint: It isn’t how much you make when the market is easy. It’s what you do after a devastating loss that completely defines your career. [02:39] This month, one of our top trading desks at SMB Capital took a tough loss. They were long a position when an unexpected, intervening event dropped out of nowhere and hammered the stock. The damage? Down over $3 million. [00:13] In prop trading, that plunges a desk straight into what we call "the hole" [00:13]. Before these guys see another dollar of payout, they have to grind back every single dollar of those millions just to get back to flat [00:23]. Bad beats happen. Losses happen. It flat-out sucks, you feel it right in the pit of your stomach, and the pain lingers [02:32]. It is what you do after the loss that matters—not the loss. [09:10] The $3M deficit matters very little in the long run compared to how the team and its individual contributors respond right now [02:49]. In our latest video, I broke down the exact 6-step blueprint this elite desk is using to climb out of their hole [03:26]: 1. Run a Forensic AAR (After Action Report): Stripping emotion from P&L [03:42]. The team leader didn't bury the loss in a large pepperoni pizza and a bottle of red wine [04:47]. He delivered a candid, constructive autopsy: owning his mistakes, analyzing hedge execution, and praising the quick-thinking put purchases that saved another $2M in damage [04:20]. 2. Collaborate Across the Desk: As Ray Dalio observed, viewing the market through one pair of eyes means missing critical information [05:04]. On our desk, an impressive junior 7-figure producer respectfully pushed back on the star's self-critique, arguing the entry add was technically sound and purely hit by an exogenous intervening shock [05:32]. That open debate is where real edge compounds [06:01]. 3. Bring the Trade to the Firm Crucible: The desk brought the trade to partners, risk managers, and mentors like @theonelanceb [06:13]. Risk reviewed limits, senior partners coordinated tech solutions for faster news execution, and coaches challenged the floor [06:23]. A painful rip becomes rocket fuel when your entire firm has your back [06:50]. 4. Chip Away with One Good Trade: As Market Wizard Marty Schwartz famously said, greatness isn't hitting home runs; it's stringing together singles and doubles [07:02]. No desperate YOLO swings. The team leader set the tone: "I am just going to chip away at these losses." One Good Trade. And then One Good Trade. And then One Good Trade [07:25]. 5. Grounded Veteran Optimism: As Colin Powell noted, "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." [07:49] The senior leader reminded the desk that drawdowns are temporary, he's clawed out of every hole before, and each slump made him a better trader [08:09]. Veteran leadership eliminates panic [08:26]. 6. Game Plan High-Conviction Catalysts: Don't predict—anticipate [08:37]. The team mapped out high-opportunity environments ahead (like the Anthropic IPO and potential Q4 momentum) to deploy asymmetric risk when the setup aligns [08:48]. The market will knock you down, but your career isn't defined by the brutal blow—it is defined by the grit, discipline, and character you display when you stand back up. It is what you do after the loss that matters. #DayTrading# #PropTrading# #SMBCapital# #TradingPsychology# #OneGoodTrade# How to Recover from a big loss (as quickly as possible) via @YouTube

They are orchestrating the UN. First, they succeeded in ousting and imposing sanctions on ICC judges and Prosecutor who opposed the interests of their lobby. Now, they are seeking to have the arrest warrant issued against Netanyahu withdrawn, and plan to dismantle the ICC so they can commit war crimes with impunity. Secondly, they succeeded in securing another four-year term for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, for he had been an obedient servant to them in Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran. No high commissioner has ever served a second four-year term. It is a badge of dishonor that his first four years have been so timid that the lobby welling to gave him back for another four. Third, they are pushing forward with Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the IAEA, as the new UN Secretary-General. Grossi is the UN official who fabricated fake reports about the presence of highly enriched uranium in Iran—an allegation he later retracted—in an attempt to legitimize a war against Iran. So, they now, ca, Violating international law and committing war crimes more brazenly, with impunity and without the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court. The Prosecutor and ICC work in their favor. Violating human rights more brazenly, without the issuance of UN reports on human rights. The high commissioner works in their favor. The UN Secretary-General, too, works in their favor. What will happen next? The year is 2003. Colin Powell told the UN that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. For legimzation the war on Iraq. It was a lie. The case was fabricated and the intelligence was manipulated. Even some intelligences warned that it was fabricated. They were ignored. The people who fabricated it knew it was fabricated. The Downing Street Memo proved Blair knew too. This is not a matter of interpretation. It is documented. One million people died. The country was destroyed. The infrastructure, the institutions, the social fabric. The region destabilized in ways still producing casualties today. White phosphorus on civilians. Torture. All documented. Zero prosecutions. No weapons of mass destruction. Ever. Not one person went to prison. Bush and Blair won elections after. Neither faced trial. Tony Blair should be on trial for his role in the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, not on a “Board of Peace” for Gaza. What more do they need more to legitimize an all-out war against Iran? A repeat of the Iraq scenario: the fabrication and manipulation of intelligence, and the UN charade, since the UN now works in their favor, as is always the case. The future is bleak.