The Wolf Of All Streets - Bitcoin Is Crashing! $80K Next? What’s REALLY Behind the Drop? | Macro Monday

Episode Date: January 13, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 The dollar is raging with the DXY hitting 110. 10-year yields are up to 4.8%, even though the Fed has started its cutting cycle. Bitcoin down, testing the $90,000 support, and markets are seeing red everywhere. What is going on? We're just a few days away from the inauguration when things were supposed to be
Starting point is 00:00:25 looking rosy. Is this a harbinger of negative things to come or is this just market hating uncertainty before we get a new president? I have the best team in the game here to unpack everything happening with Bitcoin and the macro. Mike McGlone, Dave Weisberger and James Lavish. Happy Macro Monday. Let's go. What is up, everybody? I'm Scott Melker, also known as the Wolf of All Streets. Before we get started, please subscribe to the channel. Hit that like button. Let's go. both for myself and for markets. We're going to bring on the gentlemen now. We've got Dave, James, and Mike. I mean, this tweet right here, this says it.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Woke up to 110 DXY and 4.8% 10 years. Good morning. And it's a firestorm of brim, hailstone and brimstone and firestone, whatever the hell the statement is. Remember when I was saying that I was doing good? Now it's terrible. And I got cocky.
Starting point is 00:01:50 But here you go, right? Having your morning coffee, watching the apocalypse around you. Mike, morning call had to be entertaining today. Yes, it was. Ana didn't say anything about it, but she deserves a lot of credit. Ana Wong, she nailed that unemployment number. She was the high end and we got it. She thinks it's going to continue for a while. She was alone up there too, yeah? pointed out with the data coming up this week is we're seeing pretty expect she says expect to see continued financial sector inflation cpi stuck at 3.3 percent that's core um the deflator 2.9 percent stuck consumers are front running the tariffs and price hikes one thing that's really
Starting point is 00:02:38 unique from gina martin adams is um it's it's not usual for her to be this bearish and she's very bearish. She says, yeah, we're overdue for a test of the 200 day moving average in the S and B 500 stuff that we've been saying for a while. We just haven't seen for over a year, which is 5,570. You know, it's okay. Well, just stuff that used to, it's still heading higher. You used to matter, just kind of giving back in this massive bullishness.
Starting point is 00:03:04 Ira Jersey is pointing out. We probably can, we could get the 5% in the 10-year note. And, of course, the key thing that Gina also pointed out is this persistent dollar weakness. I'm sorry, strength, what stops it. But overall, my key takeaway is when Gina Martin-Adams' bearish equities heed that call, and that means all risk assets have a problem, which maybe it's just a short-term correction for Bitcoin. And the thing is, when you have rising bond yields, which James had been all over, that's a pressure on all risk assets. And we still have rising bond yields. Yeah, we got, when you look at the overview of market data this morning, I mean,
Starting point is 00:03:43 I'm just, it's amazing to watch because you see gold down a percent, you see silver down almost 3%. So silver is acting, you know, as it often does with beta. Oops, what happened to my cue left? Yeah, it'll be back. And at the same time, when you see oil futures up and, you know, and then obviously what's going on in Bitcoin, it's fascinating. I mean, the bonds, look, I said it last week after our show, but the last time that we started pushing toward 5%, we know what happened, right? We had a not so great equity market. And when it got toward 5%, what did the central banks of the world do? What did the Fed do? They started pouring liquidity and they didn't do anything in terms of cutting rates, but they poured in liquidity. And we don't know what they're going to do. I'm very curious, James, what is the
Starting point is 00:04:33 liquidity situation looking like? Because 5% bond is a very big problem for Scott Pesend, who wants to change Yellen's policy of funding the government, I have to say that. Yeah, I mean, look, there's a lot to unpack there, but bond yields, global bond yields rising, it makes it more expensive for global investors and just operators to pay back debt. That's the US dollar base. The dollar is rising. And what do they do?
Starting point is 00:05:04 They sell risk assets. They sell any asset. It doesn't matter. They're selling bond stocks, gold, Bitcoin, whatever they have to in order to meet any call that they have. So that's just reality. Everything correlates to one. And that's kind of a little bit what we're seeing here. Liquidity, you know, we're running into a period here. I wrote about this weekend about, you know, the debt ceiling. We're running into a period here where the, where the treasury itself is having to, it's gonna have to start dipping into the TGA and, and then eventually we'll have to use extraordinary measures. So dipping in the TGA, they've already, that's, that's capital they've taken out of the markets that has to go
Starting point is 00:05:46 back in. So they're just going to pour it back in fiscal. That's the fiscal dominance we've been talking about for so long. It's just going to continue. And so there's going to be liquidity coming into the markets there. Over the last three months, on average, liquidity has been contracting. And so we expect that, like we've seen every single time this happens since, I guess, 1998, you're going to see more liquidity come into the markets because you can't have a collapse of risk assets. It just can't happen. And this is where Mike and I have been kind been, you know, kind of dancing around this situation. Are we going to have a 20 or 30 percent correction in risk assets? We need to in order to get them to mean revert back to a level that makes sense.
Starting point is 00:06:35 And so or or you need liquidity to rise in order to make the valuations make sense either way. It's going to. And I believe that we're going to have something that's kind of in between. We're going to start to see this sell off and central bankers are going to panic and they're going to somehow dump equity into the markets. That's in some way, shape or form. That's just my, that's my base thesis.
Starting point is 00:06:59 And I think it's going to, you may get a buying opportunity here, but I don't think that it's going to be a sustained, you know, three, six, nine month sell off where it's just painful and all the global economy grinds to a halt. I just didn't see that. Well, I mean, we're seven days from the inauguration and, you know, we're about to get a really interesting test of one of economics, I think, worst theories or or whatever the so-called broken glass theory, because the amount of money it's going to take to rebuild Southern California over and the amount of money that has been destroyed is going to be absolutely insane. You know, the estimates range from 50 billion on the low end to hundreds on the high end. That's anywhere from 20 to 200, so. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Well, 20, I don't think, I haven't seen that. The lowest I saw was like 50 something, but there's enormous amounts of destruction, and it's destruction in the heart of political donors. Now, the political donors are on the party that lost, but we'll see what happens. It's a very interesting situation because that money is going to come in to do something. Plus, the question is, what's going to actually happen there? And there's a lot of things that are going on.
Starting point is 00:08:26 I mean, the cross currents are crazy. And, you know, we don't know. There's a week to go. We'll see what happens. But, you know, this is a period which is fascinating. You know, the Republicans are doing everything they can to worry about getting the nominees through. And that's what we thought we were going to care about. But who knows, right?
Starting point is 00:08:44 You know, there's all sorts of wild ass theories out there and people are kind of panicking on but you know i'm just curious you know in this backdrop gold i would have expected to have been i i i was surprised to see gold down today you know is this correlation one where where's the current futures indication on the stock market? It's not that bad, is it? No, it's down. It's down. I think the future down like three quarters of a percent. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Nothing. Yeah, but I wore my Dow 40,000 hat just in case we get like another five. I got to piggyback on that. Thank you. First two things that you all mentioned, and certainly you mentioned, Dave, is first, my sense is, let's do a little bit of rhyme here. Remember 2000? We all knew the equity market was stretched and then 9-11 hit we got that recession to me this what's happening every day you look at what's happening in california is somewhat similar i mean with wealth destruction psychologically linear depressing hasn't stopped it's somewhat similar but i want to mention to On the year, gold's up about 2%. S&P 500's tracking lower.
Starting point is 00:09:46 You look at on a one-year basis, gold's up 30%. S&P 500's 23%. That's widening. The fact that gold is beating the S&P 500 on a one, almost two-year basis with all this massive competition from Bitcoin is really becoming disconcerting, I think. And this is where I want to just show a few charts if I can and to point out what I think is happening. To me, this is the macro big picture.
Starting point is 00:10:09 And if you overlay Bitcoin with that S&P 500 to gold ratio, okay, it was the same exact chart for about two years starting in 2020. And then, of course, as the Bitcoin broke out, we had the ETFs launch. The risk is Bitcoin goes back down towards this S&P 500 gold ratio. I hope it doesn't happen, but it might. And I just want to show you another key thing that I'm pointing out is if you look at the inverse of that, gold divided by S&P, that range, it's stuck in the narrowest range. If you go back, you have to go, I just do a 200-week Bollinger Band.
Starting point is 00:10:40 It's the narrowest in 30 years. There's a market ready to move, and it sure better go down, or the risks are it just mean reverts up. That's how far we are. And I just want to show you one other chart in that same thing. Look at the other way. Look at S&P 500 terms of gold. This is the trend line here.
Starting point is 00:10:57 It's starting to trick down. No one, we can't break that trend line, because if we do, that's that massive discombobulation. But it's simple, normal reversion. And this is the key thing I want to tilt over and point out with, we talk about bond yields in the rest of the world. This is the top five countries in the world. Their bond yields, minus the tenure note, their yields are 134 basis points below the US. Sure, we've seen pickup recently in UK, but plunging yields in China and the US 10, you know, running 476, I've been wrong. I still think if I'm right about this little reversion, S&P 500 versus gold and a little reversion and things like Shibu Inu and Doge and all these
Starting point is 00:11:38 silly speculative accesses and cryptocurrencies, we're going to get that rally where we're going to say, oh, the only thing left is US treasury bonds. The key thing is US stock market. And that's the bottom line right here. This line right here, we have to stay above this trend line. That's S&P 500 divided by gold. And to me, that's the one we risk breaking down. The point is we're so high, just a little reversion, just getting to that 200-day moving
Starting point is 00:12:00 average in the S&P 500. That's the key thing that people forget about and some prudent investors get. And that's part of the reason why Bitcoin absolutely has to go up and the risks are it goes down. I just want to say this one more time because we've had this conversation, but even at this high, high price, Shiba Inu is still 77.31% off the highs. So, I mean, if you're looking at the altcoin market i agree like we need them to go down but they're down dude it is slaughterhouse five in the altcoin market still even with bitcoin trading at 90 000 and pushing above 100 so i would just make the argument that
Starting point is 00:12:37 to some degree we've seen that i agree completely what's what's 12 billion dollars of value in shibbolino anybody explain that to me, please? Or a billion or $2 billion in Farcoin, right? Well, we've talked about it before. It's the casino. Some people are just playing at casino because they forget about trying to own a house. They're just going to, you know, they're going to gamble and you get some, you, you got a 24 seven casino that is available to you. That's one thing. And the other thing is people are just desperate. They're trying to catch up. You know, we're talking about inflation, inflation. The expectations for tomorrow is that the CPI is going to rise from, let's see, from 2.7 to 2.9 percent year over year. That's the mean survey of economists.
Starting point is 00:13:35 They think the CPI is going to rise 0.2 percent from the last period. And what did we warn about if the Fed eases the stock market was breaking out and help it add $13 trillion to personal wealth last year? It's silly to expect CPI, normal inflation to go down in that environment. We create so much massive wealth creation. So to me, we're at that inflection point. It's almost like 1929. Maybe it's 1928 where the equity market's so high. it's all that matters. It goes up, inflation goes up. It goes down, inflation goes down. And who really helped accelerate that? Was the Fed using, okay, unemployment was going up. But I want to ask you, James, you point this out a lot. It's a key thing that I'm really concerned of. When
Starting point is 00:14:18 we have a whole generation, depending on gambling and speculative risk assets, because they don't feel like they can lift up their lifestyles. What does that mean? What's that risk? And particularly when what happens in unemployment, as we know, it always goes back to 6%. Yeah, it stalled at 4% a while. What happens when it does go back to 6%? Unless it's different this time. No, it's not different this time. It's just that we have two different economies running. You know, you've got this super wealthy economy that is asset-based. We talked about the boomer generation that they own homes, they own stocks, they have big 401 and IRA portfolios, and they're just sitting on these
Starting point is 00:14:55 portfolios that's just been rising and rising and rising and rising and rising. And they've got a bunch of cash they're sitting on in money markets that they're making money off of, and they're turning around and buying more properties. They're buying starter homes and renting them out just for the fun of it. You know, like it's just nuts. So that's one economy. And then the other economy is the one that we're seeing clearly that credit card balances are rising. Credit card defaults are rising. Auto defaults are rising.
Starting point is 00:15:23 And that's the younger or lower demographic that just can't keep up. And so what happens when unemployment keeps, it starts to really rise, they're going to get crushed. And that's, and that's just reality. And so you're going to have this. But we had job numbers last week and unemployment was down. Right. So that's another thing I want to- Okay. Let's talk about that because we haven't talked about that yet. You know, Trump was elected and there's immediate optimism in the economy. And so I think private sector turned around and started hiring immediately. So it took over the job of the government to hiring.
Starting point is 00:15:57 Before this last period, the vast majority of hiring had been government driven. It wasn't private driven. But this last period, it was private driven. And that was the interesting divergence there. And so I think it's because of the optimism from the Trump election. Is that going to continue? Well, that that's the question. I don't, I don't know how, how long that continues. So, but Mike, you were going to say something I'd like to hear. Well, it's Dave's turn. I know Dave's brewing, but I think it's really important to bring that out is we all know that why did gold make a high right before the election? Because the massive uncertainty, we didn't even know for sure we'd have a clear election,
Starting point is 00:16:32 a definitive election. We got it. If you're any private sector is going to make decisions within six months of the election, yeah, stop, wait, wait till after certainty election. We're getting that. The key thing is what happens afterwards. So I think that's a key thing to bring into what happened to the last payroll number. It's post-election.
Starting point is 00:16:48 Great. We got it. We all know what to do. We know it's Trump. Okay, let's move forward. The key thing I want to end with and point out is we're seeing bounces in commodity prices lately. It's the time of year you add to positions and there's massive increases in open interest,
Starting point is 00:17:00 which means everybody's getting along crude and copper, not copper, actually selling copper and corn, which is the risk. And they're doing it at resistance, which means as a trader, I think, okay, if they're all getting along at resistance, I'll look to sell test shorts. But I think I'm since Dave is brewing. Right before that, can I really, Dave, I'm sorry, I just want to ask Mike one question. So you keep saying 1929, 1929. But right from 1929 to the early 30s, CPI, which is calculated differently, went from zero to minus 10 percent, something like that. Right. Obviously, we saw massive deflation. How is this not more like the 1970s where we saw the massive drop in inflation and then a huge uptick and raged backup? Because if Trump's policies are going to be inflationary, if we're going to see this money
Starting point is 00:17:46 printing to prop markets, doesn't this just mean we should get another spike in inflation and we shouldn't see a depression? It's the elephant in the room. And I can go back to 1999. That's the last time we had a more similar stock market cap to GDP. Now, Dave will point out that doesn't matter anymore. That's okay, but it's mattered in virtually every single country that's peaked in the last 30 years with too much excessive, just excessive, too high prices in the stock market. And that's why I have to go back to that time a century ago. It's because the number one thing that happens, we went up too much in equity prices, and then we just reverted. It's almost always what happens. In the 70s, we had inflation, but the stock market was relatively cheap versus bonds and everything. It just had a pretty much
Starting point is 00:18:28 a bear market point. My point is all that matters is in this case, if the stock market keeps going down, it's just mean reverting. Remember, we haven't touched a 200-day moving average in over a year. That's going to trickle down everything. Now, Dave has pointed that out too. That to me is the point we're at now is the thing you learn from in markets is, you know, when what we anticipate settlement occurs, that was too much anticipation of too much optimism risk assets just two months ago. Now it's only swinging back. The question is how far does it go? First of all, Dave's never said, uh, I've never disagreed with the, the, the, the notion that we won't test the 200-day moving average on the S&P. Dave believes that – I'm not going to talk about myself in the third person because I'm not –
Starting point is 00:19:14 Actually, I'm really enjoying it. I think we should make it a thing. That's just not me. But my personal belief has always been that the stock market is more or less insane in nominal terms. But when you look at the denominator, it's based upon the amount of dollars in circulation. And if you're looking at inflated dollars, what you're getting when you crank the money is you're getting asset inflation instead of consumer inflation. That's always been my working theory. It will be my working theory until it changes, which means if the amount of dollars in circulation, i.e. liquidity, goes down, the stock market staying up feels like Wile E. Coyote chasing the roadrunner and finding out that he went off a cliff. And that's why I believe that they will have to turn the liquidity hose back on because otherwise bad things will happen.
Starting point is 00:20:09 So, you know, when it comes to the stock market, that's genuinely what I think. I think that they're down the road of pushing all the monetary inflation they're creating from the fiscal idiocy that we have. And it's throughout the G7 at this point. So it's throughout the entire world. Certainly in China, it's the same thing. It's all going in asset inflation and not consumer inflation. So because inflation is a monetary phenomenon. I know I'm the Milton Friedman acolyte here. And, you know, and that's just the way I look at the world. I think that that is true. But that's why it's so important to understand a couple of factors. I mean, you know, your S&P divided by gold, I think is an incredibly important indicator, right? Why? Because gold more or less keeps up with purchasing power. It's been pretty damn good at keeping up with purchasing power over a very, very long period of time. And so what you're doing with that is you're saying, okay, the rise in, you know,
Starting point is 00:21:01 kind of nominal inflation, you're doing, you're basically creating an inflation adjusted for consumer inflation because gold really has represented it, S&P. That's a great idea. And it shows that it's extended. And that's probably true. And the reason it's extended is because they've gone, if you remember, two years ago, we were talking about this and I made the point, and James and I both made the point, actually, that when we did the, actually, it was more than two years ago, it was like three or four years ago, we were talking about the fact that during the pandemic, we made this horrendous decision to hand money directly to the people and completely manufacture consumer inflation away from the standard policy of asset inflation.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Well, I said at the time, and I meant it, that they're going to try to reverse this and do the exact opposite. Well, they've been doing the exact opposite, and it's been successful-ish until the bond market started saying, well, wait a minute, guys, you're going a bit too far here. And I went back and I looked at October of 2023, which was the last time. We're not quite to the high levels that we hit in the 10-year yield from October 2023. And when it was approaching that, it looked pretty ugly, and we had some bad days in risk markets, no doubt. But what happened? Miraculously, we had a nice, pretty sustained rally in the bond market and all risk assets,
Starting point is 00:22:27 you know, partied like it was no tomorrow for a while after that. Am I saying it's going to happen again? I don't know. But the Trump team that will be in by the time we get to that, you know, in a week, you know, we'll see. You know, I personally think that everybody, there were so many people who were setting up to buy the rumor and sell the inauguration. They've already, they're the ones who are selling today. They're saying, oh, wait, we may not even get there. And, you know, that's what, you know, this is the test. You know, will, you know, how much fundamental buying is there in Bitcoin? Because Bitcoin is down more than the stock market today. And it's like, OK, why? And
Starting point is 00:23:05 well, you know, why? And the answer is because people are selling. I think there are people who are worried about how all this stuff is going to shake out and we'll see. So I do think that, you know, this week is a dangerous week. I said it last week that the next two weeks will be a dangerous week. I think it's a dangerous week. I mean, there are people out there who are saying, well, what's the impact of in world crises of the United States not having a functional president? Because we don't have one right now. You know, it's like I made the joke to someone at this wedding I was at. They said, what do you think about what's going on in the administration and what they're saying? I said, well, you ever hear, if you ever had any friends who were landlords who
Starting point is 00:23:45 had tenants, if you have a tenant who knows they're not going to get their security deposit back already, what's the likely shape of the apartment, you know, when you finally get it? It feels like, you know, Biden says, I'm not getting my security deposit back. I don't really care what's going to happen. And, you know, who the hell knows what's going on. And so there's, there are genuinely people who are concerned this is going to be a rough week and bad things could happen. I mean, I hope I'm wrong, but you know, that, that is the leadership vacuum right now. And we will see what, we will see what happens. That's all I can say. And with the backdrop of the engine of the U S economy in terms of Silicon Valley, not Silicon Valley, but the state
Starting point is 00:24:25 that it is burning, it's kind of an interesting backdrop. I mean, you know, we've all seen the meme, right? You know, the dog sitting with fire around it. I mean, you know, I can't believe we haven't seen that. I guess people think it's in bad taste. I guess it is. I mean, look, my daughter lives in L.A. Thankfully, she's in East Hollywood and still in one of the white areas from the Watch Duty app. And if anyone doesn't know what Watch Duty is, you don't have any relatives in California. That's the nonprofit that's actually tracking the fires. And my sister-in-law lives in Eagle Rock, which is just on the fringe of the white area. And we've been monitoring the wind direction. I know more about the Santa Ana winds than I ever thought I would, but this is a very big deal. People, you, no one understands the economic devastation
Starting point is 00:25:09 this is causing. And there, and if you think rebuilding from hurricanes is a big deal, this is, this is a bigger deal because there's no, the way California's regulations are, no insurance company is going to insure anybody rebuilding and they're not going to get loads to rebuild until that changes but there's wholesale changes that need to happen and it it's a big piece of our economy so we're going to get a real test okay one thing we have not we have one thing that we have not touched on that we absolutely must touch on when we talk about the 1970s is that debt to GDP in 1970s was 30%. It's approaching 130% right now. As you have the stock markets assets sell off,
Starting point is 00:25:54 we are so financialized as an economy that as that happens, tax receipts go down when tax receipts go down deficits go up i don't care what the doge you know um the what the what is it it's not is it a is it a commission the doge commission says i it they're not going to be able to cut deficits by much it's just not it's just it's nonsense maybe a few hundred billion dollars maybe if they go crazy. But and Mike, I think you're just nodding your head because it's just reality. I mean, the reality is you're not going to. So you're going to have deficits rise when you have when you have interest rates are going up and you have a stock market and assets that are going down. You have deficits that are rising. It's only going to make this whole situation worse. So if you go back to first principles, you've got two things. Trump talks about the stock market virtually every single day that he's on that podium. He loves the stock market. He wants it
Starting point is 00:26:56 to go higher. And we know that that's inflationary and that's good for the debt to gdp it is going to help it and so that that is what they want they want to devalue the dollar the central bankers know this it's in their mandate to devalue the dollar it's the first mandate the first mandate is stable pricing which is two percent inflation which is devaluing the dollar why that's it's that's a mandate for them and so for them to be worried about three or 4% inflation, they're not worried about that. The only reason they worry about it is because of their reputations. And so the first principle is they've got to make sure that it doesn't spiral out of control and that they continue to devalue the dollar to help the treasury take care of all this debt that
Starting point is 00:27:41 we're issuing. I have a question for Mike. Has anybody tracked, because I think I know the answer to this. Has anybody tracked the mean return of global stock markets post disasters? When there's natural disasters or like Fukushima-style disasters, markets always crash. And as far as I can tell, three months after that, the markets are always higher. But that's anecdotal. I don't know if that's true.
Starting point is 00:28:06 Has anyone studied that? Because I suspect that that has a lot to do with what James was saying. I mean, if you're Trump, what do you want to happen this week? You want all the markets to drop. So he has a low baseline come a week from today. That's what he wants. If you're Biden, I think he wants to run out of his favorite ice cream flavor. I don't think he
Starting point is 00:28:28 cares. This presidency is a presidency by committee, obviously right now. That's just reality. Trump is already talking. He's already shit-talking the Fed. He's already telling me he wants rates lower. He's
Starting point is 00:28:44 not even in office yet so i mean i mean he's also trying to buy greenland uh take over canada and grab by the way he's not in office yet so but by the way i do want to say since you mentioned greenland that would be one of the smartest fucking deals he could do greenland is it no seriously if we could buy greenland from denmark and get greenland to accept, because they're thinking about trying to detach themselves from Denmark. You know, it's not that many people, but it is an enormous repository of rare earth minerals and uranium. So how did Stortz Folly work out? What did you say?
Starting point is 00:29:19 How did Stortz Folly work out? I agree with you, David. It worked out rather well. Yeah, exactly. Us boomers who remember our history class know that that was the buying of Alaska. Greenland would be one of the great U.S. securing natural resources plays in history if he could pull it off. So hopefully he'll get that one done. Some of these others are obviously Canada. It's insane.
Starting point is 00:29:44 They're not going to become a state. I don't know whether that's just typical hyperbole. But, you know, James always talks about how Trump plays game theory, you know, with all this nonsense, that there's always something in the middle of it, but there's all sorts of stuff around the edges. But the point that James made is hugely important, which is the debt to GDP. They can't afford, cannot afford for tax receipts to get crushed they cannot afford that they can
Starting point is 00:30:09 afford inflation they can talk about it but you know inflation helps the problem it helps it that's right they don't but that's the problem yeah that's right everyone wants financial asset inflation and how do you do that you do that by cranking the printing presses how do you do that right you know well they're pretty good in different ways but yeah so well when he's shit talking the fed what he i don't think he gives a crap about rates i mean rates have gone down and right and long end is up what he cares about is qe he wants to see no more tapering and he wants to see qe fire back up again that's what he wants but does he want it now no he's going to want it in six months and where does the fed get
Starting point is 00:30:53 the money to start adding assets to their balance sheet well the fed that's the thing fed can print all the money it wants that's the thing about central bank so why why is gold going up the deepest pockets on the planet are buying gold. That to me answers the question I asked you before about 1929 versus the 1970s. It just feels like they're going to print to infinity to keep the stock market up. So we're missing one iteration. Why did the U.S. go off the gold standard, at least debase the currency in 1933? Because the stock market went down almost 90%. That's the first iteration. We're just too expensive in all risk assets to have that action yet. And we've had the risks of inflation. Now, the things that haven't mattered yet is, remember,
Starting point is 00:31:34 the yield curve used to matter. We'd get a recession. Well, it hasn't mattered yet. We've had a historical disruption. And I like to point out, I'm looking at 100-year cycles, and I've been making a call that's a lifetime call, that we're going to just have some normal reversion of the most expensive risk assets in human history in this country. And it's just potentially, it was wrong last year, got it. Maybe it's starting this year. And the key place to start for that to start is for altcoins. They're silly, stupid. They've got to just collapse and get back some of those near zero.
Starting point is 00:32:04 That's where it really gets started. The stock market's all part of it. It's just the whole thing is so elevated. And there's so many books I've read that all this- 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000.
Starting point is 00:32:13 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000.
Starting point is 00:32:14 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. 90,000. Oh, bad.
Starting point is 00:32:16 Now it's dumping. 89. Right there. The chart I showed earlier can easily go back to 30, but I don't want to say that. And that's just on a basic versus what it's been doing with the S&P 500, gold S&P 500 ratio. It's a classic human nature. We have to try to look back at it from the future. When everybody's so bullish and the people are selling you products, you're supposed to buy more. You're supposed to say, has it already gone up a lot? okay what should i do well be careful and that's why i'm
Starting point is 00:32:50 pointing out what just the normal mean reversion the question is right now this is nothing this is just air this is the first part of the year we're hitting a few stops liquidating some of that excessive pump after of trump's i'll ask this question is our job sometimes to predict the headlines and what's going to be the first market to say, oh, it reversed the Trump bump. Potentially Bitcoin's the one that matters the most. And we're getting really close in the S&P 500. I think another 50 points and it takes out the whole Trump bump. So I want to go back to something James said before about Doge, because I think it's very, very, very important to understand. The total discretionary spending in the federal government is what we have outside of it.
Starting point is 00:33:33 One trillion. I thought it was close to two. I guess you're eliminating defense out of that. Well, I'm eliminating. Well, I don't really consider military discretionary. Right. If you want to save money off the federal about the federal deficit at this point considering interest payments
Starting point is 00:33:50 and the department of defense and entitlements you know you're not so there's only one reason for doge and it's a very important reason it's because uh we've not been with the current growth and the trajectory of the federal government our economic growth in a recovery has been a half to a third, you know, 60 cost benefit on regulations, making the agencies, you know, be getting the hell out of the way is to create growth because growth is the only way along with inflation to get out of this budgetary deficit. It is the only way. And so you could look at a lot of nominal growth. Yeah, that's exactly right. But, you know, even Gavin Newsom this weekend made a point of saying, you know, I think we're going to have to take a look at how to decrease some of the red tape to allow people rebuilding. I mean, anyone understand just how fucking big he sounds? So basically, in one sentence, he repudiated every single fiber of his term and everything that his party has been doing to this country and to California for the last two decades.
Starting point is 00:35:12 He basically admitted without admitting what I just said, that they have been screwing people, making it hard to build. They have. We all know that's true. We all know that economic growth in the face of overwhelming bureaucratic red tape is really hard. That's the mission of Doge. That's why I applied to help them. I have no idea. I haven't heard back from them. Well, Dave, I think quickly, I think everybody agrees with that, with James saying it's not going to matter that much, but the flip side being everybody still should hold the government accountable for their spending. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:35:49 One doesn't fix everything, but it still needs to be done. And it's very important. But the point is that James made another very important point before. We are so financialized now. Is there any of us who thinks we're going backward or actually they're more likely to try to do it even more? More. More is exactly why Bitcoin is,
Starting point is 00:36:13 is an attractive asset for people. And remember, you're not buying Bitcoin based upon what it is today. You're buying Bitcoin based on what you think it will be. And I don't want to go through my whole option thesis. That's irrelevant now. But that matters. Bitcoin to demonetize gold or at a bare minimum to get pari passu with gold is still more
Starting point is 00:36:33 than a 5x from here, right? Closer to a 10x. And so it's really a question of if you believe that the government is going to do everything it can to allow more financial innovation, allow more financialization, then that's what you want to own. Do you want to own NVIDIA? Maybe if the world is going to go AI and they're going to take over and be the dominant, you know, horse in the economy. But there are a lot of places in the S&P which are just at nosebleed valuations with no growth in the future under any scenario. Right. So it's going to be a very interesting market. I mean, I personally agree with Mike. I know of personally, I know a dozen people who are look at their 401k and say, OK, I'm comfortable.
Starting point is 00:37:21 I can spend I can do this. And that's really interesting. But if you end up in a crash scenario, all those people are going to be panicking. And that sort of spiral is exactly what the government wants to avoid. Right? Exactly. They have to avoid it. They have to avoid it. That's the problem is that you start feeling that pain even just for a few weeks and then the bond market's going to start feeling it. 5% is going to be nothing. My scenario is simple. I agree with Mike on phase one, which is there's going to be pain. And I agree. But I think that what you're saying, James, is right. I think that the response will be to pump liquidity into the market.
Starting point is 00:38:06 That's the point. Is that even if we do get that version, they're going to pump it to match the reverse on the other side. Go ahead, David. Right. So we just had a liquidation flush in Bitcoin. And I just love watching this shit. We were talking. It went from $90,500 to $89,200.
Starting point is 00:38:24 And it's back at at 90,500 again. And right when the market opened. I mean, you see this thing. I had to mute Mike. There was some background noise. Go ahead, Mike. That's probably better. I was muted.
Starting point is 00:38:35 But I have a question for all of you. So we agree on a lot of things. I agree with the liquidity pump, but I think it needs a trigger first. And then it's a question of how much it's going to work. And that's why I keep going back to 100 years ago and what's happened when we smooth Holly tariffs and what we're doing right now and all these. It's just so similar and it's so different. And one thing that's similar is a massive speculation, these highly speculative digital assets. So the question I ask is, we all agree on Bitcoin diminishing supply, increasing
Starting point is 00:39:05 demand and adoption, but there is 2.4 million Bitcoin wannabes now. There's massive competition. I look at precious metals, there's gold, silver, platinum, and platinum. That's it. It's just too excessive. And the question I really worried about is, okay, so what does it take? The thing we all agreed on was if the Fed started easing, risk assets would take off. Now you did. Now the Fed's done. The Fed's out of the picture. What's it going to take the Fed to start easing again, meaning adding equity? How much more does the stock market have to go down? Okay, that's a key question we're going to answer because right now, they won't ease. They're out of the picture until something tells them to ease.
Starting point is 00:39:41 What kind of wipeout do we need just to start to liquidity? Because we stopped it. We stopped the Fed easing. And we all knew that if they kept easing, it would pump liquid risk assets to, you know, too high levels. Now they're just starting to revert it. I'm just afraid it's going to be the swing down hard. I just don't think so. I think that James's point is it's not the stock market that's the issue.
Starting point is 00:40:03 The issue is tax receipts. The issue is ballooning deficits. The issue is understanding what matters. Scott had a great tweet earlier, which I thought was a great way of expressing it. Your tweet that said, I may not be an economist, but I thought that the point of Fed easing was to make that mortgage rates go down, except for mortgage rates are probably higher, right? I remember you phrased it better than I just did. But that's kind of the point. Fed easing on the short end is only helpful for consumer debt, which of course, that is an issue, but it's totally unhelpful. There you go. And, you know, when you talk about that, I mean, the housing
Starting point is 00:40:46 and mortgages and commercial mortgages as well as private mortgages. Credit card rates aren't going down. Credit card rates are still going up. So, I mean, the only thing the Fed has done is put money in the banking system. You know, when the Fed cuts rates, you know, it depends on who's borrowing at those rates. I mean, it helps the short-term, you know, T-bill borrowing, right? You know, so the government can borrow a little bit cheaper if they're funding on the short end, that's fine. But, you know, it's not as important
Starting point is 00:41:19 as what the market is setting in interest rates. And the markets think that inflation is real because they all see what James and I, and you are all saying, which is these guys are trapped. We've been saying they're trapped for a long time, but we'll see what happens. I mean, I think they have all sorts of ways
Starting point is 00:41:33 of getting there. Isn't the Fed getting increasingly more trapped by the day here though? I mean, it seems like every new number that we get, whether you believe them or not, or they're revised in a different direction in a few months, muddles the picture further. They help balloon the wealth effect from the stock market to the greatest amount in 100 years. Financialization, they get it. Maybe it won't
Starting point is 00:41:54 matter. So we've seen what's key leading indicators for this. Bitcoin, okay, we get it. But look at Ethereum. It's already dropped 25% from 4,000. What stops it from going to 2,000? A 50% correction. It's a great trading environment. Just what you'd expect when people get too bullish and too long for the wrong reasons. Now we have one thing we're hoping for in crypto, strategic Bitcoin reserve. Great. Let's hope it happens. He's promised it. But let's go with the promises of politicians.
Starting point is 00:42:20 They always work out well. Well, first of all, OK, now I'm going to push back because that's not the one thing. There are four things that are happening for Bitcoin. So you've said two things that I disagree with violently. I had to tee you off, Dave. Come on, it's more fun. No, no, no. But the first one is you're 2.4 Bitcoin wannabes. That's not true. It is equally as true as why gold is more valuable today than platinum when platinum is 30 times rarer in the earth's crust than gold. And platinum has more cachet than gold. It's a little bit harder to work for jewelry, but platinum was always a lot more expensive
Starting point is 00:42:54 than gold. And it isn't. Why? Because gold is considered a monetary asset. So all commodities are not created equal. You yourself have talked about the gold silver ratio and how that moves around so that people do trade these things. When you look at crypto, Bitcoin is the lead horse.
Starting point is 00:43:09 The reason Bitcoin going up is good for altcoins isn't because people say, oh, I would do the same thing. It's because people have made money in Bitcoin, and they take it, and they say, oh, I could buy this cheap stuff and play in the casino and maybe accumulate more Bitcoin on the other end. And as Max Keiser would tell you, most of the time people do that, they actually lose. And therefore they buy less Bitcoin and it goes from weak hands to strong hands. But Bitcoin is different than the rest of crypto. I've been saying that for a long time. It is not a value play. The issue with the rest of crypto is there are many, there are a lot of other use cases, but I look at them, I look at all those assets as the same way we value a tech stock. Not quite the same in terms of cash flows, but in terms of the value of community, whatever.
Starting point is 00:43:51 There are ways of valuing it. If you look at the route today, and Mikkel, if he's listening, and I hope he is, because he talked me into building a starter position in XRP a month ago. And XRP is still sitting at 240. It's up today, right? It's up today. That's right. And that's why. It's because there's a use case there and people understand what that's going to be. And we can talk through the whys. This is a macro show, so I'm not going to go into that particular coin. But these assets are different. And Bitcoin, I think everything that's going on now these assets are different. And Bitcoin, I think
Starting point is 00:44:25 everything that's going on now is rampagingly bullish for Bitcoin. And literally all of this is bullish. Bitcoin is an asset you buy because you believe that if, in fact, you lose trust in the system, this is the asset that will appreciate as the system is collapsing. Now, you say that, but we all know what James said is also true. When you are forced to have a capital call, you sell everything. And so if you have Bitcoin, you sell it. It is not remotely surprising to me to see Bitcoin at $91,000 approaching $91,500 right now. I mean, the V is ridiculous. We're almost back where we were a couple of minutes ago. None of this surprises me because that asset is different. And that's the one pushback that I have. And it's funny because we come back to this every time, like we always
Starting point is 00:45:15 do. It's just that our fundamental reasons are different for what Bitcoin is or isn't. When it comes to Shiba Inu i mean look i don't want to get an army of people yelling at me i have no idea what shibarium is doing these days i haven't researched it it's not doing anything i've checked but yeah right but i i tend to agree that we have billions i mean and this is global remember we have tens of billions of dollars that are being played in assets that have no fundamental reason to exist and it's just a question of betting on it and it's no different to me than beanie babies or no different to me than you know that anything out that any other you know kind of bubbly kinds of things and it just goes from asset to asset i mean dolls remember those right yeah
Starting point is 00:46:06 exactly crush can we uh piggy what you said dave so i can understand it better maybe our audience can understand it better i i again i click on i understand i look on i look at crypto dollars just crushing the volume increasing every day tether and xrp about the same market cap 100 almost 140 billion dollars i just don't get what's the value of something like xrp when you can transact instantly for nothing in in a stable coin that's pretty safe now i don't get that xrp thing explain that maybe is launching a stable coin and there's nothing against them but obviously they agree with you they believe their ledger will be used by the banking system to launch their own stablecoins or to use their stablecoin to do it. And if you believe that the XRP ledger will be the technology that will underlie the replacement to SWIFT, you quickly come to a valuation somewhere between $7 and $10.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Which is not the ridiculous things that people in the XRP army talk about, you know, a thousand dollars. I don't care. My bet is given a political, why did I invest some money in XRP? Not a lot, but you know, definitely a starter position. I don't talk about size ever, but I did because I looked at it and said, okay, they have the right connections. They have the regulatory headwinds will be gone. And I think they're going to make, I think people are going to discount the fact that they're going to have a real shot at being part of the backbone of the new financial system as it moves. In which case I look at it and say, okay, I could have a $7 price target on my position.
Starting point is 00:47:41 And that's a really nice return. I mean, I don't care. I'm not looking for a hundred Xs. I'm not like going in on pump.fun. I've never done it. I mean, you know, it's funny. You know, I may do something on pump.fun only because it's amusing because, well, we'll talk about it next week if he does it. But my son bought a robot dog that's blowing up on Instagram and they're going to do a meme token on his robot dog. I mean, all sorts of people have, you know, the dog's name is Sparky and people want to look it up, you know. But, you know, it's amusing, right?
Starting point is 00:48:20 You know, those are fun things. James called it. It's a casino. But Bitcoin's not a casino. Bitcoin has very serious people. And the pushback is the strategic reserve that I think is a brilliant trade if they talk nothing about it. I think the fact that the Biden administration has likely sold a lot of that Silk Road coins is absolutely a travesty. And one of those things that somebody should have serious, there should be serious accountability for that stupidity.
Starting point is 00:48:50 And that's worth a discussion of itself. And we talked about that in Crypto Town Hall last week. I mean, they didn't have to do anything. They expedited it. This is a basic stick in the eye. By the way, do we know if they sold it yet? Because last, on Friday, we just saw it was sitting in the wallet still. We have no idea what they're doing. But clearly, by doing that, it was a try is a poke in the eye unless Trump said, hey, make people do this so
Starting point is 00:49:14 that when we go to buy it, we could buy it at a lower price. And, you know, I don't put anything past any of these guys. So I have no idea what's going on. But the real catalyst for Bitcoin isn't the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve where we do it. It's central banks, it's corporations, it's armies of broker-dealer financial advisors who can all tell people this is something to buy in Bitcoin. I mean, you just set your watch by it. I was in Bitcoin now. Yeah, so what I really appreciate about Michael is he had me get really bullish in 2020, and he got me really bearish just a couple months ago when he taunted the best investor in history, Warren Buffett, for not being in Bitcoin. It's like the bravado of that statement.
Starting point is 00:49:58 It's like he tempted the market gods like I've never seen. So for now, I'm viewing everything from him as somewhat bearish. It's just you can't put all your risk assets, your net worth in one asset and tell other people to do that. History is not going to judge that well. Good luck. Bitcoin has to go up now. That's my point. For the risks of this year, it absolutely has to go up.
Starting point is 00:50:16 Because if it doesn't, it means everything goes down. And potentially even Trump. But, I mean, as far as his standing, is he going to get more better than the optimism we have for what he's going to do for the U.S. economy right now? I hated that taunting. I hated it, hated it, hated it, still hate it. The only thing that made me feel better at the same time was Jim Cramer saying that
Starting point is 00:50:35 it's going to drop well below 90,000 and yada, yada, yada. Oh God, Cramer's right. Here we are. Okay, so it's just a normal pullback. Cramer nailed it, tested 90, went just below and bounced. Yeah, it's just a normal trading move for now. We know to get up to 100, you back up a little. Now what? Now it's the key thing is got to stay above 100. I mean, stay above it. I would say that we just kind of hit the critical inflection point actually for this Bitcoin move. Look, I think-
Starting point is 00:50:59 At 90 with a bounce to see what the follow through is today. Go ahead, James. It's going to take a few, we talked about this months ago that once it does get to a hundred, it's going to take a few tries to get through. This is a massive mental level, massive. If you look at it on the daily, you know, it tried once, broke through twice, tried, broke through three times, tried again, four times, tried again, broke through five times. It's, it's, this is like the, the, it's had five tries at it. So it's getting close to where it breaks through and holds it in my mind. You know, it's a mental, it's a huge mental level, but look. I mean, look at 10,000.
Starting point is 00:51:39 It took, what was it? Two years? Exactly. From the time it first broke through 10,000. Different cycle time. Yeah. I understand that. But, I mean, it was a very, very long time.
Starting point is 00:51:50 Now, I think things are compressed now. But I think 100,000 is a lot like 10,000. Yeah. And I think that only something that is a catalyst will get it past there. I just happen to think we're going to have, I think we have three or four catalysts that are coming in the next three to six months. That's the difference. And if it doesn't happen, then yeah, you're right. Then we're going to languish here.
Starting point is 00:52:12 But I think it's going to be right in the same place. That's not a catastrophe. Now, if Bitcoin languishes below 100,000 for a year and the global economy does what Mike is saying and all global risk assets sell off, sure, it's going to go with everything else. There's no doubt. Yeah, I will say, Mike,
Starting point is 00:52:30 something you say all the time about assets, but right now at 100 or we're at 92, but certainly when it was above 100, Bitcoin was priced to perfection. Yeah. Which you love to say about stocks, right? It was Bitcoin, I keep saying this, it is priced in that these cabinet picks Which you love to say about stocks, right? It was Bitcoin. I keep saying this. It's priced.
Starting point is 00:52:53 It is priced in that these cabinet picks will get their jobs, that we will have a pro-Bitcoin administration, that Trump will push. So when you're priced to perfection, there is, as Dave just said, this potential letdown if just crypto is not on the docket for the first 100 days. It doesn't mean that long term we don't get what we want, but there is an expectation in the market with price pushing to where it was that it's a major, major issue at the beginning of the presidency. And if that doesn't happen, it could be a letdown. What is not priced in yet is the long term view that as people truly understand what Bitcoin is, how it is different from the rest of the casino, how it is actually the preeminent store of value in the world. Once they do understand that, that's number one. Number two is you're starting to see people catch on to, and it's probably because of the vast network of social media and the sharing of information now and the speed at
Starting point is 00:53:47 which it's shared. People are distrusting the government and how it's handling the money. They're starting to see how it's manipulated. And all this shit that we see that's going on today, all of this stuff that people are confused about, the interest rates. Interest rates are dropping from the Fed, but they're going up on the long end. Why is that happening? Why is the dollar moving around so much? Why are the cross currencies moving around so much? Why are stocks at all-time highs? Why is the housing market at an all-time high?
Starting point is 00:54:14 Why can I not pay my bills? And markets are going up and no eggs. And what the hell is going on? People are starting to catch on to the fact that it's all about the money and the manipulation of money. And people really, truly start holding on to the fact that it's all about the money and the manipulation of money. And as people really truly start holding on to and understanding that, and we're figuring out that all of this pain in the markets for the non-asset holders is due to central bank manipulation. That's when Bitcoin is going to take its move and completely uncorrelate to the rest of any asset out there.
Starting point is 00:54:46 And now when that happens, I think it's going to take a long time. I do think it's begun. It's slowly begun and it's going to take time. And catalysts like Dave is talking about, like the Bitcoin Reserve and things like that and other central banks buying it, those will be huge catalysts and people figuring out oh my god this is the only way that i'm going to be able to protect tech the protect the value that i've created for my own life i thought you were supposed to do that with a basket of fun meme coins so one thing about it too is we have to remember is that's assumes there's gonna be no glitches with the technology and it is still kind of new. Okay, well, let's talk about that.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Has there been any network in human history that has had 15 plus years of consistent uptime? I get it. It's why it's still accelerating and doing well. I get it. I mean, it was kind of a tee off for you, Dave. Decentralization. That's the reason for it.
Starting point is 00:55:44 It's unique. I get, it was kind of a tee off for you, Dave. Decentralization. That's the reason for it. It's unique. I get that. It is. But once again, it's just the reason I always push back when you talk about the two million Bitcoins and Scott, look, I own Solana too. I'm not going to lie. Underpinning the casino, I think technically
Starting point is 00:56:00 I saw your point this morning. I'd rather own the casino than be the one gambling at the table. Exactly. And Zipcoins is the game. Zipcoins is sitting at the blackjack table. And if you own Sol casino than be the one gambling at the table. Exactly. Meme coins are sitting at the blackjack table. And if you own Solana and believe in the casino, you buy Solana. That's right. But Solana goes down. I mean, Sui has gone down.
Starting point is 00:56:16 I mean, you know, Ethereum actually has been remarkable. It's expensive. Ethereum doesn't go down, but it gets unusable when gas fees get too high. And people can still arbitrage gas fees. And, you know, when you're trading on it and it's, it's just, there's all sorts of nonsense that we can go on about, but there's a difference in Bitcoin. It is. And, and you look the single strongest chart I have ever seen in financial markets.
Starting point is 00:56:40 I mean, people talk about the S&P from 2009 to today, and that's an incredible chart. No question. Look at the Bitcoin hash rate. Just look, today and that's an incredible chart no question look at the bitcoin hash rate just look look at the hash rate of bitcoin how the network has grown and continues to grow it is up and to the right within a channel that has almost no almost perfect variation now admittedly with difficulty adjustments or whatnot there's a reason for it you could almost not even see the dip that was the that was such a big deal in 2021 of the China ban. If you do an all chart, you almost don't see a 50% retracement because of what happened. That chart tells you a lot about Bitcoin. And that's a large part of the difference. But the macro picture, I mean, look, all eyes should be not on rates, sorry, not on rates,
Starting point is 00:57:26 but on this hand back here, which is liquidity, right? Rates are here and the Fed may be done easing, but liquidity and QE or any other games they're going to play is what matters. And fiscal dominance is going to matter. And I don't see any version of the world where our budget deficit, where Trump can actually cut budget deficits in 2025. There is a world where 2026, we might enter a period of time where the economy starts growing and we've gotten some discretionary changes in it. But barring something, I don't see any way. In that world, it is not surprising when you see people.
Starting point is 00:58:07 I mean, Elon said it, right? You know, Vivek has said it. I mean, expect one step backwards and make two or three steps forward. And so in that world, you have to ask yourself what's going to go on with liquidity. And I think that they're going to prioritize putting more liquidity into the market to pump assets vis-a-vis consumer inflation. They don't want consumer inflation because that makes people angry. I don't know if they're going to avoid it. I mean, James mentioned X. I don't know what the hell's going on with X, but I go to the supermarket, I buy eggs and I can't, you know, it's always half or a third empty. Well, one of the best ways to piss off Trump
Starting point is 00:58:45 constituents is inflation. Rich people don't vote. It's your average person voting for inflation. Groceries are supposed to go down. Every billboard said the price of groceries is going to go down. We'll see. Key thing, I want to tee Dave off. I guess we're at
Starting point is 00:59:01 time, but is this Bitcoin to go racial? 34. It's the same as the peak five years ago. I'm still worried at time, but is this Bitcoin to go 34? It's the same as the peak five years ago. I'm still worried about it, Dave, going down. I understand. We'll see. It's the same thing. You guys are about even on that bet still, I think, for March now with the dip.
Starting point is 00:59:17 No, I always have two meals. Scott, you got to come to Miami so I can pay off those bets. Well, we'll do it all in one meal. We'll do it all in one meal. We'll do it all in one. Well, we got a couple. If you need two steaks. There'll be more. I believe in him. I believe in his bill. I can't believe that we are at time. I want to be fully transparent. I saw people in the comments saying that I looked distracted for a few minutes there, that I was looking down. I
Starting point is 00:59:39 bought Solana and Bitcoin while we were on the show. I'm just going to be totally transparent. I saw Bitcoin dip below 90,000. I bought a little bit at $89,500. And I bought Solana just around the $200 MA at $175. Not because I'm going to sell them tomorrow because, hey, man, they may go way lower. I have no idea. But I think long term, I'm really happy buying a lot of these assets right here, if it gives anybody any insight into how my brain works but yeah i liked that dip i really liked that dip that's so i don't know uh you know i guess next week we'll be buying sparky you said it's gonna happen on monday can we like can we bring you in on and launch a meme coin live on macro monday it would be the most unexpected strange thing i think we could ever do on the show
Starting point is 01:00:19 i'm sure if he gets it if he does get the launch i'll talk to him about it i'm sure he'd be happy to try it's so over my head. Honestly, man, all this stuff. There's so many things in this space. Even me, who I think I'm in it pretty 24-7. Like, I just either... Mike, what's the list you call in your mind, the things you just ignore? Like, do not...
Starting point is 01:00:37 Oh, my DI list. Deliberately ignore. Yeah. Am I deliberately... Like, I mean, someone was telling me all this stuff about Hyperliquid today, and I know there was a launch and an airdrop and hype. I don't even know what it is. I don't. Well, some of it is so much in your face, you can deliberately ignore it and get more information you really want anyhow.
Starting point is 01:00:55 Yeah. Jeff's saying I'm going to really like the next dip then. Yeah, I'll buy that one too. Anyways, guys, that's all we have for you today. Macro Monday. Amazing show as usual. Love to see the audience growing, but we know that people show up on bad days,
Starting point is 01:01:07 you know, good for a good, good TV. James, Mike, Dave, as always a pleasure. And we will see you guys next Monday.
Starting point is 01:01:15 I assume everyone else had no spaces in 10 minutes and I'll be back tomorrow with Andrew from arch public and Jeff park from bitwise. It's going to be awesome. I will be in Colorado, so on James' time or closer anyway. We'll be launching meme coins from the slopes while macro mundane. I'm ready for it. All right, guys.
Starting point is 01:01:34 Thank you very much, everybody. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great day. Bye. Let's go.

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