Mark Knoll

Central bank gold buying is relentless and signaling a phase change in the global fiat monetary system

@AmmousMD Restless leg syndrome

There's no disease that requires medications for the rest of one's life

Jorge Polanco do you like free coffee

Our food system is perfectly designed to create chronic disease. The very policies meant to nourish us have subsidized the production of the raw materials for junk food—corn, wheat, and soy. The result is a population that is overfed but undernourished.

One of the best policy recommendations I’ve ever heard is “your body fat percentage should be your tax rate.”

Regardless of your position on Bitcoin, it is clear that currency debasement and inflation are still the path to deal with debt and deficits. Spending cuts did not fly… R.I.P. @DOGE

Translation: The official US economic policy is to debase the currency. There is no other way to “grow our way out of this”. At least they have acknowledged we have a problem.

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Stablecoins, backed primarily with US treasury bonds, will help entrench global dollar dominance

Why I support trade renegotiation…. I’ve had many conversations with friends lately…Some lean left, some lean right…Here are my thoughts: The current global economic/monetary/trade system is unsustainable, has widened the wealth gap and lowered the standard of living of many Americans. Many think it threatens US national security. Trade/tariff imbalance is one driver and seems to be largely a bipartisan issue over the last ~30yrs (based on old videos I see of both parties discussing the issue) Trump is the first president to campaign on, and then address the problems with meaningful action. The problem is acute, so I’m ok with a bold approach as long as it has a positive cost/benefit. Many think tariffs are reckless at worst or being implemented wrong at best. There are good arguments for both, but I am looking at tariffs as one tactic in a larger strategy. For sure, tariffs are a blunt negotiating tool the President has in his tool bag. They are being employed initially to get all countries to the bargaining table. The goal is to negotiate a global trade reset similar to the Bretton Woods monetary reset in 1944. Included in trade deals are national security issues. Treasury Secretary Bessent has spoken on this objective. The comprehensive “shock and awe” approach serves to make it happen quickly as well as getting all countries involved and aligned together at the same time. A minority of people in America get most of the benefits from the status quo. Many of them don’t acknowledge or understand the problems and so speak loudly against the tactics/strategy. It seems they simply want their stocks to go up and their stuff to be cheap. Business owners love the cheap labor arbitrage. The “vocal minority” drives the media that echos all of this. The majority of people have not largely benefitted from the status quo. They support the strategy and tactics even if imperfect. They speak with their votes, not op-eds. They don’t care about the stock market because they don’t have a 401k or meaningful job prospects. Many of their friends fight fentanyl addiction. The conundrum, or maybe second order thinking is this: If the minority who benefit from the current system don’t acknowledge the problems or support a reasonable strategy to improve them, then the people who are suffering will elect politicians with insane policies and America be far worse off. History is replete with such outcomes. I see tariffs as a necessary starting point that leads to a fair global trade reset. It’s important to see them in context along with the other tactics (tax, regulation, DOGE etc.) that are in turn, part of a long-term growth/revenue/spending strategy. I acknowledge there is risk with tariff wars (real war is the worst) and there will be some pain, but that will be the case regardless of what solution we pursue. In the end, I hope we can get America on a more sustainable trajectory that becomes the new status quo. In the meantime, I’m holding on to my bitcoin and gold..!

Don’t outsource diet decisions to government or corporations!

So thankful to have never experienced this.

@S_Mikhailovich Agree. My point is simply that they are a relatively low risk, financial technology helping millions of people grow tomatoes! 😉

@MarkRKnoll My post was about form vs substance, not good or bad. Fintech is like fertilizer - one can use it to grow tomatoes or to blow up buildings. It's not bad to let small foreign depositors hold USD &/or USDT but there are many different ways to make it happen.

Stablecoins are merely tokenized versions of "bank notes" issued by presumably fully reserved "banks." History has shown time & again that financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. The instruments keep evolving but not the economic substance or the risks.

No, but it is not an economically viable solution for the vast majority of people in the world who make only a few dollars a day. Stablecoins enable micro-savings and micro-payments. The user does not care about ~4% annual interest when their currency is being debased at ~20%+ per month.

@MarkRKnoll If the US wanted foreign citizens to bank in USD, it could make it easy for foreigners to open fin accts in the US & wire USD to anyone anywhere. People could keep USD in MM accounts & collect interest instead of the stablecoins issuers keeping the interest. Would that be bad?

PSA: There is a crypto renaissance brewing behind these regulatory events in the next months and the products coming to market will be unreal. Be your own bank, open a small business and use crypto, crypto is an alternative financial system becoming the main financial system. It makes the cost of business tiny compared to the running of a business today and exposes business to a larger global auidences with drastically increaaed money velocity. I urge all those young people who want to start a new business in infra or product to really learn and understand the economy coming soon to the world when these networks go mainstream. Position yourselves and your careers accordingly. Going to shool? Pick your college degrees well. Fine tune your specialty in these new technologies and build skills and knowledge around the public networks, the apps built and running on the networks, and the massive stable coin integration needs in the legacy industries as they decouple from banking and couple with crypto for value settlement and value messaging. Founders: Use the open source libraries and public networks to build your dream businesses. Teachers: Become a part of the new economy by teaching core infra. Its all ready and about to explode. Be ready before others. There were many founders who had amazing ideas but could not get quality legal representation due to hostile crypto regulations during those years. Now they are re-energizing as law firms around the world are embracing the industry and crypto startups all over the world are preparing to service of the new economy. The needs arising from the economic impact of the Genius Act and SBR Acts in the US Senate is not understood yet. Be early. Founders, build now, before mainstream adoption.

@drmarkhyman Mine said “it won’t tell us anything”

Why does your doctor check your cholesterol but not your insulin levels?

Stable coins are now an official strategy of the US Tresury x.com/highbrow_nobro…