Trump and Crypto: Why I’m Increasingly Happy About Trump 2.0
We are now just days away from Trump v2… In the weeks since DJT reclaimed his right to occupy the Oval Office, I and much of the rest of the economically cognizant world have been reading tea leaves and consulting our Ouija boards, trying to divine just where Trump will lead us all, based on […]
The Next Netflix… Is a Crypto
It’s never too late to get in on a great investment. To wit: Netflix. Now, just to be clear here I’m not recommending you go buy Netflix. I’m going to recommend you invest in something else—the cryptocurrency, Solana. But our road today leads through Netflix, so that’s where we start. The online video giant began […]
How Trump Came to Love Crypto
Follow the money, they say. That will lead you to the truth. So, let’s track some greenbacks and see where we end up… Unless you are a centi-millionaire—unless you have at least $100 million—you’ve probably not heard of a group called R360, a group that began in 2020 with the premise that wealth is more […]
Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina – Just Send Bitcoin
Punishment at school hit different when I was a kid—literally. None of this namby-pamby shit we have today, where teachers who give zeros to students who don’t do their assignments are fired for creating an environment destructive to a student’s academic growth (true story; weak generation). I was in fifth grade. A rainstorm had passed […]
Protected by Bitcoin… Constitutionally?
When you’re right, you’re right—even if the rest of the world thinks you’re a kook and a crank. That’s how the world saw Clair Cameron Patterson, an American geochemist who realized early in his career that his countrymates were poisoning themselves and the environment through their use of lead, particularly in leaded gasoline. Long story […]
Turning Crypto Wealth into Real Wealth…
“We’re not gonna roundtrip it this time!” That, perhaps, is the big takeaway from the Token2049 crypto conference I attended last week in Dubai. This year’s version drew thousands of investors and lots of big names in crypto, including Jeremy Allaire, founder of Circle, the company behind USDC, one of the world’s largest and most […]
How Many Dollar Bills Does It Take to Reach the Moon?
We’ve been lied to. I mean, not that you should be surprised. Or that being lied to is something that’s suddenly unique and novel in this American economy. Still, pointing out the lies is always good. As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in the 1950s (back when the Supreme Court was widely respected): “Sunlight […]
Dumping Bonds to Buy Bitcoin
Times change. So must my portfolio… Back in 2020, in the months immediately following the pandemic’s arrival, I studied my largest retirement account—a mid-six-figures portfolio—to gauge my tolerance for the crisis I see coming. And I decided that I wanted to sell… pretty much everything. So, I dumped 90% of the stocks I owned, including […]
Maybe Bitcoin to $1 Million Isn’t Imagenative Enough…
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a question I cared about: Can bitcoin really hit $1 million? These days, I’ve tossed that question into the bin because of a more pressing query: Is there a limit to how high bitcoin’s price can go ultimately? The answer: No. The reason: Because there is no […]
How Henry VIII Proves the Value of Bitcoin… and Gold
Inflation is legal counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is illegal inflation. – Robert Breedlove, bitcoin-focused entrepreneur & philosopher By the spring of 1542, British King Henry VIII was in a bad way. His lavish lifestyle and spending on pointless wars had left the monarchy in a financial fix. So, Henry gathered his minions that May—and issued a secret order […]