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Trump Is Telling You to Own Bitcoin
Trump is talking openly about inflation reducing the debt burden. John Arnold and I walked through the machinery this morning. Bitcoin is breaking higher against gold.

The gap between French and German 10-year yields just hit ~140 bps, the widest since the 2012 euro crisis. France's debt is on track for 119% of GDP this year, a record.

WTI crude just fell to around $88, the lowest in a month. It traded above $105 in September.
The son of a former US president is on a podcast calling fiat "a sham" and saying inflation is a built-in tax on the American people.
Alex Thorn made a 15-minute documentary tracing monetary philosophy from Locke to Satoshi, written by him and produced with AI.
"The US does not have real sovereignty militarily if they have no plan for controlling these supply chains. That's definitively moving in the opposite direction now." @JohnArnoldTen31 on why the rare earth race is the real great power competition.
"China is at least optically and publicly endorsing the US viewpoint. This is the first real official statement leaning in this direction." @JohnArnoldTen31 on Iran's main sponsor pulling back at the worst possible time.
The guy who got Anthropic banned from federal systems and called effective altruism a "death cult" is now the White House's point man for coordinating with AI companies. You can't write this stuff.
"Crude flows got back to roughly pre-war levels. A pretty big narrative violation for a lot of the doom posters." @JohnArnoldTen31 breaks down what the oil data actually shows vs what the influencers told you.
"I think we're early in that third century process. The worst inflation hasn't hit yet, but our policy isn't doing things it should be doing to stop it or start to reverse it." @JeremyRyanSlate on where America sits on the Roman timeline. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

Young investors across Africa have decided Bitcoin is "the way to move towards a better and brighter financial future for Africal," says Former federal regulator Charlene Fadirepo.
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The CFTC is doing its part to deliver clear rules of the road for crypto asset markets with its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets."
"If you have the ability to hit the button to print more money, push come to shove, you're gonna hit it." @JeremyRyanSlate and @MartyBent on why every empire debases its currency and why nothing's changed. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

The gap between French and German 10-year yields just hit ~140 bps, the widest since the 2012 euro crisis. France's debt is on track for 119% of GDP this year, a record.

WTI crude just fell to around $88, the lowest in a month. It traded above $105 in September.
The son of a former US president is on a podcast calling fiat "a sham" and saying inflation is a built-in tax on the American people.
Alex Thorn made a 15-minute documentary tracing monetary philosophy from Locke to Satoshi, written by him and produced with AI.
"The US does not have real sovereignty militarily if they have no plan for controlling these supply chains. That's definitively moving in the opposite direction now." @JohnArnoldTen31 on why the rare earth race is the real great power competition.
"China is at least optically and publicly endorsing the US viewpoint. This is the first real official statement leaning in this direction." @JohnArnoldTen31 on Iran's main sponsor pulling back at the worst possible time.
The guy who got Anthropic banned from federal systems and called effective altruism a "death cult" is now the White House's point man for coordinating with AI companies. You can't write this stuff.
"Crude flows got back to roughly pre-war levels. A pretty big narrative violation for a lot of the doom posters." @JohnArnoldTen31 breaks down what the oil data actually shows vs what the influencers told you.
"I think we're early in that third century process. The worst inflation hasn't hit yet, but our policy isn't doing things it should be doing to stop it or start to reverse it." @JeremyRyanSlate on where America sits on the Roman timeline. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

Young investors across Africa have decided Bitcoin is "the way to move towards a better and brighter financial future for Africal," says Former federal regulator Charlene Fadirepo.
CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The CFTC is doing its part to deliver clear rules of the road for crypto asset markets with its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets."
"If you have the ability to hit the button to print more money, push come to shove, you're gonna hit it." @JeremyRyanSlate and @MartyBent on why every empire debases its currency and why nothing's changed. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
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