"When you have so much leverage, the risk is not that the Fed is late to hiking rates. The risk is that the market crashes and they have to then re-lever it up again."
4/8 "Overconfidence leads to leverage. Leverage leads to crashes."
5/8 "The narrative that housing has to stay elevated because of this housing shortage is complete and utter nonsense."
6/8 "...The best thing to do is go through pain... You're talking about decades of a mismanaged economy that was never really full of capitalists, that decided that debt didn't matter..."
Store of value = an asset with the ability to rise when cash falls.
A lot of people have this misconception that a store of value should hold it's price, but as @agurevich23 says, "your store of value should climb when money expands and cash becomes less valuable."
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2/9: The real power to shape the economy lies hidden in plain sight: banking regulations.
"The most unambiguous way to affect monetary policy is to tighten or loosen banking regulations."
It's a lever more potent than interest rates or balance sheet adjustments.
3/9: When interest rates rise, it's not the indebted who are the economy's bellwether, but the cash-rich.
"It's the strong players...that will drive the economy down" by choosing to contract their balance sheets.
The current market environment is one of the toughest we've ever seen, but that doesnβt mean itβs impossible.
Every day, new opportunities emerge...
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2/9: Winning at investing takes constant work and evolution...
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3/9: In Issue 1 of The Game, macro expert @elementmacro walks us through why developing a repeatable process that suits our own unique personality, goals, and time horizon is so important to surviving todayβs markets.
β90% of investing is managing your emotions,β Mike says.
Hong Kong authorities have recently told banks they are free to offer services to crypto businesses and will release a crypto & $BTC framework in May.
Let's take a closer lookβ¦
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2/9: Hong Kong, an international financial center, is now attempting to become the world's leading cryptocurrency hub.
Despite China's crackdown on crypto activities and ban in 2021, Hong Kong is actively attracting blockchain and digital asset companies.
Here's how...
3/9: The city is charting its course in the world of Web3, providing regulatory clarity, and courting not only mainland Chinese crypto firms but foreign ones too, such as HashKey and rival exchange OSL.