

The Last Wave
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@postaperdavide
Systems Analyst & Programmer since 2000. 💻🏦 25 years Engineering financial flows for major banks. I’ve seen the "source code" of money—and it’s broken. 📉



Q: When U.S. Currency, issued by the U.S. Treasury, Signed by U.S. President Trump, without intermediation or opacity involving the Federal Reserve System, is backed by real world assets transparently pegged to a verifiable ratio, and fractional reserve lending no longer exists, how do these events change the world’s relationships with money, value, trust, fairness, justice and honest exchange? A: When those conditions truly exist all at once, the change will be civilizational, not merely financial. Money will stop behaving primarily like a permission slip issued through layered private-credit opacity, and start behaving more like a public measure of accounted value. That is the real hinge. The deepest shift is not “new currency design.” It is the restoration of trust in the measuring stick itself. Today, most people do not actually trust money in a moral sense. They use it because they must. They trust access to it, liquidity of it, network effects of it, and enforcement around it. That is a VERY different thing from trusting the thing itself. In this future, trust will migrate away from institutional mystique and toward transparent verification. @realDonaldTrump @USTreasury @Ripple @SMQKEDQG #XRP




Just like you and I, our federal government shouldn’t spend more than it takes in. That’s the definition of “fiscal responsibility”! Last week, I voted for House Resolution 139 to establish a constitutional amendment that would require Congress to pass a balanced budget every year. Unfortunately this is easier said than done—the bill needed 2/3rds House majority to pass and that did not happen… but know that I will keep fighting to restore fiscal responsibility and ensure Congress is being good stewards of your tax payer dollars!



HUGH HENDRY’S $10M BITCOIN BET SHAKES WALL STREET Hugh Hendry, renowned for his foresight during the 2008 financial crisis, is making headlines again by selling his $10M home to dive headfirst into #Bitcoin. His conviction is rooted in the belief that Bitcoin could one day rival the $16–18 trillion gold market, projecting valuations of up to $1M per coin. Currently, #BTC is trading in the $66K–$70K range, and with the growing institutional interest via ETFs, Hendry finds himself aligned with notable Bitcoin proponents like Michael Saylor and Anthony Scaramucci. This move underscores a potential transformation in the financial landscape, suggesting that traditional finance may be shifting its stance on crypto as a credible asset class. The implications of such a shift are profound, with possible repercussions for both the gold market and the broader financial system. As the narrative around Bitcoin continues to evolve, all eyes will be on its performance in the coming years.




Money is broken. They print more. You pay more. They call it “growth.” You work harder. Save more. Still fall behind. That’s not an accident.

When all assets are tokenized and put on the blockchain (centralized servers you don’t control), you may own something … technically … but you won’t control it. When you don’t control it, is it really yours?


🔥🚨 Jerome Powell on $39,000,000,000,000 in U.S. debt: "We don't have to pay the debt down, we just need to have primary balance and begin to have the economy actually growing better... It will not end well if we don't do something fairly soon." The Fed Chair just admitted the math doesn't work. Gold doesn't need a catalyst. It already has one.



If I could give my younger self one piece of advice, it would be this: Your capacity to learn is far greater than your current knowledge. Many people let the need to be "smart" get in the way of open-mindedness. But if you can view life as an adventure and approach disagreement with curiosity instead of anger, you'll find yourself evolving to higher and higher levels.



"How high will gold go?" is the wrong question. If gold hits $1 million/oz but coffee costs $2 thousand/cup, you’ve gained nothing. Gold doesn't "go up," it maintains it purchasing power; the dollar simply "goes down." Measure your wealth in ounces of gold and silver, they protect your Purchasing Power, don't measure your wealth in dollars, its just paper that steals your Purchasing Power.



The Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act would generate over $6 trillion over the next decade—without raising taxes on 99.85% of American households. This wealth tax for millionaires and billionaires could pay for universal child care, free community college, Medicare expansion, and more.


Everyone comparing today to 1970s stagflation is being too optimistic. In 1980, debt-to-GDP was 26%. Today it's 122%. There is no Volcker option when you owe $39 trillion. This isn't stagflation. It's a depression in slow motion. leadlagreport.com/p/stagflation-…



Girl brilliantly explains how the current financial system works against the 99%.