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Markets reached pre-Iran war price levels
“There is something to be remarked on with the apparently, I read this morning or yesterday, the ASX is almost back to its pre-war highs, pre-Ram war this is. And you're saying the US market is already back to there and above that level. And it's kinda, I think it's both justifiable and hard to justify at the same time.”
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Sentiment drives prices more than underlying fundamentals
“Sentiment is everything in the short run. Well, I'd actually say no, sentiment is everything, full stop, period, right? It's just like sometimes that sentiment is more objectively informed and more centered, more fundamental kind of factors, but it's vibes all the way down, right? At the end of the day, that's all the market is, is some people that have a thing, and there's other people that want the thing, and then they bid and offer prices until consensus is reached.”
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Prolonged oil supply shocks guarantee a recession
“You can't take out 20 percent of the ability to create commerce through oil and not have a recession. If it stopped, if it stopped now, and not restarted, we end up in recession. And that's just kind of, the power is kind of mathematically factual as you get. You can't make and do the things we do without having a decline in economic growth from a couple of percent to something less than zero.”
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Crude oil prices have retreated significantly recently
“Rough numbers, numbers suck on podcasts, and audio formats in general, but 67 odd bucks a barrel before the war. It gets to about 117. Now, yesterday it was down to 95 odd bucks. Today, West Texas Intermediate Crude down to $91 a barrel. Now, still meaningfully more than it was, obviously, before the war. But more than half the gain, well, the increase has been given back.”
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Capital must park somewhere despite global instability
“The concept of TINA, you know, which is there, another acronym for there is no alternative. There's a lot of capital in the world, you know, you got to park it somewhere, you know, and particularly in a world where, despite inflationary concerns and the rest of it, you know, most governments are spending drunken sailors, that money's being pumped in, like, where does it go? Right?”
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“Sentiment is everything in the short run. Well, I'd actually say no, sentiment is everything, full stop, period, right? It's just like sometimes that sentiment is more objectively informed and more centered, more fundamental kind of factors, but it's vibes all the way down, right? At the end of the day, that's all the market is, is some people that have a thing, and there's other people that want the thing, and then they bid and offer prices until consensus is reached.”
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Coinbase joining S&P 500 is a major industry milestone
“It means literally every American and every American institution will have exposure to the largest crypto exchange. That's a meaningful thing. I'm at a TradFi conference today, and I trialed this as a talking point. It mattered to people. It seemed to suggest to people that this industry has grown up.”
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S&P inclusion forces passive exposure for all American institutions
“Coinbase in the S&P means everybody's going to be exposed to Bitcoin, whether they like it or not. That's a big, big, big deal. And so passive investors associated with ETFs and the like, the vanguards of the world and others are going to have some small connection to Bitcoin based on the fact that Coinbase is going to be in the S&P 500.”
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Leveraged corporate Bitcoin treasuries create significant systemic risk
“I've always thought the risk. People have tried to pin risk on micro strategy. They're very sophisticated about their sort of debt to their Bitcoin holdings. The risk has always been somebody trying to outdo micro strategy. And I do worry that we're moving up that escalator of people who want to stick their neck out above Michael Saylor.”
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New treasury companies are attempting to outdo Michael Saylor
“If Bitcoin, which it will, goes down 30, 40%, whatever, and some of these guys start to panic and do want to make people whole or want to have a company that exists, they're going to sell the Bitcoin and that's how you get the liquidation cascading, you know, sell, panic, sell, panic, sell, panic, sell.”
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Corporations may purchase up to 500,000 Bitcoin this year
“But for now, it's absolutely true that companies are buying more than 100% of the supply of Bitcoin, right? And that is a good thing for price. That's one of the reasons we're up so much. And I suspect that that's going to continue, right? We think companies will buy 300 to 500,000 Bitcoin this year.”
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