Since the end of the gold standard in 1971: -The national debt has increased over 4x faster than GDP -Interest expense, or the cost of the debt, has increased over 2x faster than GDP White= your credit card balance Red= interest rate on your CC Blue= your income

Even after events so far in 2025, the FCA still refuse to differentiate between "crypto" and Bitcoin. I would say that this is as great a risk for UK investors, as low levels of equity and bond ownership. #Bitcoin #investing ft.com/content/82ce5c…

Dear American friends. We agree that status quo in the Artcic is not an option. So let’s talk about how we can fix it - together. Lars Løkke Rasmussen Danish Foreign Minister

I think a lot of us are thinking the same thing. We are not great fans of the Trump administration's tone at this point in time. Even when we agree, it is hard to - because the tone is so off.

I feel like this is a bit of a public service announcement. Even if you taxed the current UK billionaire base at a one-off 100% tax, it would fund UK government interest expense for less than 2 years. And that’s “just” interest expense.

One of the best! 📻 More please! ⁦stephen west⁩ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/phi…

Can you see what’s happening? People are blaming each other for the state of the economy: - Rich v poor - Old v young But they’re ignoring the real issue: There’s a huge problem and its root cause is the fact that our money system is broken. The £ in your pocket today is

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Who needs Joe Rogan , when you have Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 and Jim Hamilton 📻 Favourite recent episodes include podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the… and podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wha… And I like the understated #Bitcoin mentions.

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Journo: "What makes you tick?" Tolkien:

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“The highest level of abstraction in any field is going to be philosophy. If you’re somebody well educated in a field, at the top of your field, in order to make progress in that field, you have to subvert the existing set of protocols and assumptions, axiomatically, that are

“Why did so many economists, policymakers, & journalists like me refuse to acknowledge the problems w/ neoliberalism for so long?” Follow the $: Wash DC & Wall St won, rest of US lost on a relative basis Globalization works if you settle in a neutral reserve asset (gold or BTC)

This all feels a bit kayfabe.

“We all know what to do, we just don’t know how to get re-elected after we’ve done it.” -Jean-Claude Juncker, circa 2013

The rise of gold IS the deleveraging & decoupling from the USD. That's what lots of investors miss, esp. "Milkshake" adherents. Said differently, take gold to $10,000-20,000 and the only pain would be felt by the real values of USD-denominated bonds (& other fiat bonds.)

Truth.

Testimonials are coming in from teachers about their newly phone-free schools, and the amazing things that students are now doing. Like taking notes, completing their assignments, then talking to each other. "Was it this easy of a solution the whole time?"

Belated "Nixon closing the gold window anniversary" post: SPX priced in gold (blue) v. SPX priced in USD (red) since August 1971 when Nixon closed the gold window.