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Jeff Booth just went on Frank Corva’s show to deliver a blunt message: one system must die for Bitcoin to win.

He says money has always been subordinate to law and those who control money rewrite the laws to serve themselves.

But Bitcoin flips the script.

Here’s what Jeff said, what it means, and how Bitcoin changes the game (with my added commentary).

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1/ The Natural State of Markets

“The natural state of the free market is deflation.”

In a truly free market, innovation drives prices down forever.

Why?

Because humanity progresses by making goods and services cheaper.

However, our credit-based system can’t survive falling prices. Instead, it relies upon constant inflation.

That’s why you see shocking statistics like:

- The average age of first-time homebuyers in the U.S. is now 36, the oldest on record.

- A cart of groceries that cost $100 in 2000 now costs $190.

- Since 1971, the dollar has lost 86% of its purchasing power.

This isn’t random chaos. It’s the system working exactly as designed.Image
2/ Money vs. Law

“Money has always been subordinate to law.”

Whoever controls the money, changes the laws.

That’s why the countries with the most broken money always develop black markets for strong ones.

From Argentina to Nigeria, the pattern is clear.

People seek honesty in money when their leaders debase it.

Bitcoin is that black market money... but on a global scale.Image
3/ The Illusion of Choice

“Socialism or capitalism… those words don’t mean anything. They’re both control systems.”

No matter the political branding, the result is the same: expanding control, eroding freedoms, and citizens trapped in inflation.

We’ve never lived in a global free market.

We’ve only lived inside systems of control.

Bitcoin is the first exit.Image
4/ Gamifying Suppression

Here’s the genius of Bitcoin: It punishes suppression.

If a country tries to ban it, the capital and talent simply flow to places that embrace it.

If a country welcomes it, they attract entrepreneurs, wealth, and innovation.

Bitcoin turns geopolitics into a game theory tournament... and freedom is the winning strategy.Image
5/ El Salvador: The New Standard

Jeff shared his recent meeting with President Bukele who said “I need more of my people in self-custody. I need more nodes run. I need more people spending Bitcoin in this country.”

That’s not dictator-speak. That’s a leader giving power back to citizens.

El Salvador is proving what happens when a nation embraces Bitcoin as freedom money.

Hyper-inflation stabilizes.

Crime crashes back down to earth.

Citizens prosper.Image
6/ Cognitive Dissonance

Whether you like it or not, politicians needs to be involved in order to hyper-Bitcoinize the world.

Booth’s approach with politicians is simple: Start with an absolute truth.

For example, everyone intuitively understands that the natural state of the free market is deflation.

However our credit-based system openly contradict that idea as we experience varying degrees of inflation globally.

This clash of ideals forces leaders to reconcile the lie.

That’s when the orange pill begins to kick in.Image
7/ Bitcoin: The Alternative System

So what’s the exit?

Bitcoin.

“It’s an open decentralized secure protocol bounded by energy. If it stays decentralized and secure… it’s very hard to cheat.”

Bitcoin is the first global free market we’ve ever had.

Prices fall in Bitcoin terms forever. Value flows to those who create, not those who control.

This isn’t just money.

It’s a new financial system for humanity.Image
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Michael Howell and Lyn Alden are two of the sharpest macro minds in Bitcoin.

Yet on two recent interviews, they have seemingly diverging views on where we are in the cycle.

Here’s where they agree and disagree (with my added commentary).

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1/ Macro Backdrop Has Flipped

In late October, Howell warned that “Fed liquidity is falling and that’s a danger sign.”

Two weeks later, the Fed blinked.

QT ends December 1.

Repo markets are flashing stress.

The Treasury General Account (the government’s cash pile at the Fed) is now near $1 trillion, sucking money out of the system.

As Howell put it:

“They’re starving the repo markets of liquidity… this is money being sucked out of the system.”Image
2/ Howell: Vindicated (Yet Still Cautious)

The Fed’s reversal validates his earlier warning, but he says it’s nowhere near enough.

“The Fed has been forced into action. But asset markets are still going to be short of cash.”

He estimates a $250B shortfall in bank reserves and expects QE to return by 2026.

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Lyn Alden just went on Natalie Brunell's show to break down Bitcoin, gold, fiscal dominance, and the Fed’s next moves.

This wasn’t a doom-and-gloom macro forecast... but it wasn’t hopium either.

Here’s what made Lyn’s analysis different (and why Bitcoin is set up well for the next 12 months):

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1/ Fiscal Dominance Never Left

“The private sector itself is in a sluggish state. But when you’re running 6–7% of GDP structural deficits without a recession...that’s stimulus.”

In other words, the US economy is being propped up not by strength, but by permanent deficit spending.

This is why Lyn frames the current environment as fiscal dominance.

In other words, Washington, not Wall Street, is steering this cycle.Image
2/ Misery Index Recession

Unlike some of the doom and gloom journalists on TV, Lyn does not expect a 2008-style crash.

Instead, she warns of “emerging market-style recessions” which means it is less about mass layoffs and more about the misery index.

Fyi, the misery index = inflation + unemployment.

In 2022, it spiked to levels normally associated with recessions.

But this time, the pain came from high inflation as opposed to a broken labor market.

That’s the template Lyn sees repeating in the years ahead.Image
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Debt piles up. Wars erupt. Empires crumble.

Ray Dalio just went on Diary of a CEO show to reveal the 5 forces that drive this cycle.

His warning?

The U.S. empire is already unraveling...but there's a way for you to opt out.

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1/ Who is Ray Dalio?

“Pain + Reflection = Progress.”

In 1982, he bet big on a crash that never came.

The result?

He went broke and had to borrow $4,000 from his dad to pay the bills.

Most would have quit.

But Dalio? He chose to reflect.

From those lessons, he wrote the #1 New York Best Seller book called Principles.

These principles became systems.

And those systems built Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world.Image
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When all 5 converge, the world resets in a major and often chaotic way.

Do these sound familiar now?Image
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Here’s what he revealed (and why this presentation is a masterclass that all TradFi needs to understand ASAP).

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1/ From Fringe to Mainstream

Between 2020–2024, most investors didn’t understand Bitcoin.

As a result, Bitcoin on corporate balance sheets was considered insane.

But after the “red sweep in November,” the narrative flipped.

The White House, the SEC, the Fed, and even the FBI now openly embrace Bitcoin.

In Saylor’s words:

“We went from grudging acceptance… to enthusiastic embrace.”

This is the fastest legitimization of a new asset class in capital market history.Image
2/ Public Companies = Super Spreaders

“When a public company decides to buy Bitcoin, they become a viral super spreader.”

He pointed to Metaplanet in Japan as a great example.

What once was a bankrupt $10M hotel chain now holding just over $2B in Bitcoin....just 15 months later!

Why?

Because public companies can raise equity and debt in unlimited amounts to acquire the hardest asset known to mankind.

Saylor compared it to “throwing a fire into a gasoline warehouse... it just becomes self-feeding.”

Each Bitcoin Treasury Company is not just a holder.

It’s an amplifier.Image
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Bitcoin is superseding the US dollar... while reshaping American exceptionalism in the process.

Here’s everything you need to know (with my added commentary).

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1/ Stablecoins: Going Mainstream

“Every bank’s going to be issuing them,” said Jeff about stablecoins.

From Interactive Brokers to Amazon and Walmart, institutions are racing to roll out their own.

The Genius Act and Clarity Act opened the floodgates for regulated dollar-backed stablecoins.

This isn’t just a crypto story...it’s the digitization of money itself.

Stablecoins are the “training wheels” for Bitcoin adoption, normalizing programmable money at scale.Image
2/ The ETF Breakthrough

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Previously, Authorized Participants (APs) could only use cash, forcing issuers to buy BTC in the market.

Now, Bitcoin can flow directly in and out.

Jeff called it “an incredible win” for investors because it lowers costs, reduces friction, and strips out middlemen.

Translation: Wall Street is finally trading Bitcoin itself, not just paper wrappers.Image
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Its successors?

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Here’s everything you missed (with my added commentary).

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