1. Bitcoin’s Energy Value just topped $130k for the first time this month; the spot price remains 40% below that level, and it has historically closed that gap over time.
2. Global M2 money supply is still far larger than Bitcoin’s monetary base, and Bitcoin prices have typically followed M2’s moves with a lag.
Trump and Powell are locked in a classic game theoretic model of "chicken," where each must choose whether to swerve or go straight.
Instead of two cars on a collision course, we're risking a deep recession.
Trump can reduce the suggested tariff rates, while JPow can drop interest rates.
Scenario analysis: 1. (2, 2) Powell drops rates and Trump avoids high tariffs. Both receive a moderate payoff. 2. (1, 3) Powell drops rates while Trump imposes tariffs. Trump “wins” more (3), Powell gains less (1). 3. (3, 1) Powell holds rates high while Trump refrains from tariffs. Powell “wins” more (3), Trump gains less (1). 4. (0, 0) Powell refuses to drop rates and Trump imposes tariffs—a worst-case scenario that harms both players.
In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love—they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.