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@scottmelker @saylor Couldn’t be said better or clearer…

This is why I believe in Bitcoin. If you only watch 9 minutes of my content, ever, please let it be this.

@WatcherGuru Did anyone expect him to say otherwise!

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent says tariffs did not lead to higher inflation.

@coryswan @real_vijay Totally

The best single article in the history of Bitcoin education, imo, by @real_vijay swan.com/bullish

@WatcherGuru Very smart!.. if you do not vote for mamdani and u hate him so much that u go to Texas if he wins… u get taxed 100% as a thank u for not voting for him…super smart indeed

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Texas Governor Abbott to impose 100% tariff on anyone moving from NYC to Texas if Zohran Mamdani wins Mayor election.

@livebookdev Lovely

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@CarmineSabia They did for more than 1600 yrs but ass-kissers like you choose to keep their heads deep inside zionists asses

If the Palestinians had the ability to make every Jew in Israel starve to death, they would do it and not blink an eye. Never forget that.

Important – Please share and tag all press freedom and human rights organizations Once again, the Israeli army spokesperson has launched a campaign of threats and incitement against me because of my work as a journalist with Al Jazeera. I reaffirm: I, Anas Al-Sharif, am a journalist with no political affiliations. My only mission is to report the truth from the ground — as it is, without bias. At a time when a deadly famine is ravaging Gaza, speaking the truth has become, in the eyes of the occupation, a threat.

@LawrenceLepard It does not matter how smart or dumb he is, they all regurgitate what the boss says.. period

come on man, you are smarter than this

@LynAldenContact I hope the “netwok effect” accelerates that to millions of copies. It is one of the beat books, if not the best, on the subject. Well written, concise, factual and very accessible to anyone to understand. Congrats

Broken Money has now sold over 100,000 copies.

@samcallah Tells you how much confidence they have in the global monetary system!

I didn’t expect to find just how much gold still anchors many countries’ reserves.

This is batshit insane, no other way to call it. We now have the first attempt by the White House—specifically by Steve Miran, the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers—to justify the tariffs based on economic "theory", and it's without a doubt the most dishonest piece of economic reading that's I've ever had the misfortune to lay my eyes upon. The gist of Miran's argument is to reposition the global reserve currency status of the dollar not as an exorbitant privilege (as erstwhile French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing once characterized it), but as somehow a "burden" that the rest of the world needs to compensate the US for bearing. As Miran explains it, having the dollar as a reserve currency "has caused persistent currency distortions and contributed, along with other countries’ unfair barriers to trade, to unsustainable trade deficits" which "have decimated our manufacturing sector." So he wants to give up the reserve currency status of the dollar, right? Wrong. He wants to have it both ways. He says that America's "financial dominance cannot be taken for granted; and the Trump Administration is determined to preserve [it]" but this same financial dominance "comes at a cost" and "other nations" need to pay for it. And he means this literally. He made a list of what exactly he means by "burden sharing" and one of the forms it can take is countries "simply writ[ing] checks to Treasury that help us finance global public goods." Let's pause a moment here to contemplate the sheer insanity of this: the U.S. is literally suggesting that countries should mail checks to the US Treasury as tribute for the 'privilege' of maintaining the dollar as a global reserve currency, when it is this very reserve status of the dollar that is the cornerstone of US power. It's the equivalent of Samson asking everyone to pay him to keep his hair. Because that's what Miran is conveniently not mentioning in his text. The reason Giscard d'Estaing called it an "exorbitant privilege" is that it allows the U.S. to quite literally have its way of life subsidized by the rest of the world. Miran (and Trump) complain about the trade deficits, but they are the very manifestation of this subsidization: countries normally cannot run a permanent trade deficit because they'd one day face a balance of payments crisis. It's like a private individual: you cannot indefinitely buy more from others than what you yourself earn. At some point you'll have to pay up. Unless, that is, you're the issuer of the currency everyone uses, in which case the normal rules of economic gravity are suspended. While other nations must balance their books eventually, the dollar's reserve status gives America the unique ability to consume more than it produces perpetually, with the world eagerly accepting dollars that cost nothing to create in exchange for real goods and services. That's not a "burden", it very much is an "exorbitant privilege". So yes, sure, because America can effectively buy most of what it needs from the rest of the world for "free" (by printing dollars), this situation doesn't exactly create incentives to do the hard work of manufacturing goods domestically. But framing this as other countries taking advantage of America rather than America taking advantage of its currency dominance is an astonishing inversion of reality. And even more astonishing is Miran's ask that countries now compensate the U.S. for this. Some people mention that it's like asking vassals for tribute but it's actually even worse than this. The tribute is already embedded in the global reserve currency status of the dollar: other countries work hard for the U.S. while they can just issue IOUs that never come due. What Miran is thus proposing is effectively demanding vassals make payments for the privilege of already making payments—a double tribute system where countries first subsidize American living standards by accepting dollars as reserves, and then must pay an additional fee for the 'burden' this supposedly places on the US. Miran's piece is replete with other complete inversions of reality. For instance, he now blames China for the 2008 crash because "their holdings of U.S. mortgage debt helped fuel the housing bubble, forcing hundreds of billions of dollars of credit into the housing sector without regard as to whether the investments made sense." Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of the 2008 financial crisis would have their breath taken away by such brazen revisionism. Not only is the crisis universally known to have been caused by US regulatory failures and the reckless securitization of subprime mortgages by Wall Street firms, but China in this instance literally saved U.S. markets from complete meltdown after Hank Paulson personally appealed to Beijing to continue purchasing US Treasury bonds during the height of the crisis, which they did. To now blame them for the very crisis they helped mitigate and played no part in creating is beyond dishonest—it's gaslighting on a geopolitical scale. All in all, it's clear what the US is trying to achieve here, they effectively want to have their cake and eat it. They want to keep the privilege and want the rest of the world to pay for the downsides that come with it. Which means we're truly at a crossroad in history where nations must make an immensely consequential choice: acquiesce to this insane double tribute system or stand against it. There are very few precedents in world history for such a nakedly exploitative power play, but history is very clear on two things: submitting to extortion only invites more of it, and collective resistance is the only effective response.

Israel: “I know we lied about the ambulance workers, Shifa hospital, flour massacre, beheaded babies, Hamad hospital, Hind Rajab, the ‘terror LIST’ (days of the week), World Central Kitchen workers, babies in ovens, white phosphorus, deliberately starving Gazans, Sinwar surrounding himself with 20 hostages in a tunnel, gassing hostages, Ahli hospital, killing women & children with white flags, mass r@ping Palestinians, non-existent tunnels under graveyards, Nasir hospital, Husam Abu Safia, mass graves, snipers targeting kids in the head, providing protection to criminal gangs to loot aid, wiping out Gaza, who refused/collapsed the ceasefire, blowing up Gazans fleeing south, Kamal Adwan hospital, claiming dead Gazan children are dolls, creating 'safe zones', the generals plan, how many Hamas militants we killed, Red Crescent taking part in Oct 7, calling killed journalists Hamas ‘militants’, Muhammad Abu Salmiya, the Indonesian hospital, UNRWA, al-Awda hospital, killing women sheltering at a church, bombing the church, destroying every single Gazan university, the Turkish cancer hospital, Hamas hiding giant stockpiles of fuel in Rafah, finding active smuggling tunnels in Rafah, hostages returning pregnant, who killed Yossi Sharabi, Itai Svirsky, Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman, Elia Toledano… But.. but our next lie will be 100% true, trust us”

@AnasAlSharif0 امين يا جبار السماوات والارض

"يارب خذلهم القريب والبعيد، وليس لهم إلا أنت، فأنزل عليهم سكينتك ولطفك ورحمتك، فلا يملكها إلا أنت. اللهم انصر عبادك، وسدد رميهم، وأمدهم بمدد من عندك يا قوي يا عزيز."

@AnasAlSharif0 اللهم امين

اللهم عزَّ النصير، وقلَّ المعين، وتنكَّر القريب، وتخلَّى البعيد. اللهم وقد اشتدَّت بنا الأحوال، واستحكمت حلقاتها، وليس لها من دونك كاشفة، فاكشف اللهم غمتنا، وفرج كربتنا، وهيئ لنا من أمرنا رشدًا وغوثًا وعونًا. اللهم أنت حسبنا الله ونعم الوكيل.

@IGWTreport Paper gold, its relationship to spot gold and it influences spot prices

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@saifedean If Trump did it and people were ok with it, why not other presidents?

Milei not understanding what he was doing is more damning than him deliberately scamming. What kind of economist and president falls for such a transparent scam and solicits investment under the premise it will grow the economy?

@LynAldenContact It is not hard but lately the “program” has been busy with politics!

Seems like bots were controlled for a bit but lately they broke through again. Major bot issue lately.

@LawrenceLepard It is gonna be a long night with the book. Thank you

Amzaon Kindle update. very cumbersome process. we went with a flat file which they said would work on all devices. It didn't. We have developed an Epub file which should solve this issue. It should go live soon (they say). What we published works on Kindle app on Ipad and Iphone. If you want the Epub DM me your email and I will send it. Also, i will refund your cost if these do not work. Send DM. Also, they are currently showing paperback out of stock. Say it will be resolved soon. But, you have another purchase alternative. My good friends at The Bitcoin Infiinity Store are selling it for sats. Here: bitcoininfinitystore.com/product/the-bi…

@LawrenceLepard Works on kindle but it is in print format like a pdf. I hope it will be in epub as well so it is easier and clearer to read on kindle. Great book, really

I am working on this issue. Works with many Kindle readers, seems to be a problem with GoodReads. Will make this right