Archive: money printing

Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is down around 0.7% over the last seven days. Ethereum is down about 0.4% over that same time period. And Monero is up about 1.8%. Conflicting macro narratives appear to be driving the market. Inflation is proving to be stubborn, and the Fed raised rates again this week. The crypto markets have consistently responded poorly to rate hikes over the last year. But continuing problems in the U.S. banking system — this…

Balaji Srinivasan Bets on Hyperinflation

By Vin Narayanan on March 24, 2023

Crypto Market Musings Bitcoin is soaring. It’s up more than 20% over the last 30 days and up about 5% over the last seven days. It’s trading at $27,928.74 as of this writing. Ethereum is up a more modest 10% over the last 30 days and about 1.5%…
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937 after just four years of construction. Here’s a picture of the “ribbon cutting” ceremony. Contrast this with today, when San Francisco government officials just celebrated the reopening of a…

The Fed’s Policy Tightening Mirage

By Adam Sharp on January 21, 2022

Bitcoin is “crashing” once again. As I write this, it’s trading around $39,000. It’s down from around $43,000 a week ago. Altcoins are correcting much more severely, with many down 15% over the last 24 hours.  As usual, all the crypto traders on Twitter are freaking…
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Blindly Believing the Fed

By Adam Sharp on November 5, 2021

I came across an interesting opinion piece on CoinDesk today titled “Will Bitcoin Win When the Fed Stops Buying Bonds?” Beginning in November, the Fed will purchase $10 billion fewer Treasury bonds and $5 billion fewer mortgage-backed securities (MBS) each month…
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Prepare Your Portfolio for Inflation Now

By Adam Sharp on May 14, 2021

If you haven’t heard yet, Warren Buffett is sounding the alarm on inflation. All of a sudden it’s become a widely discussed topic. The general public is waking up to the fact that prices are rising rapidly. For most people, this…
This week I came across a statistic that shocked me. It turns out that 34% of all US income currently comes from the government. Here’s a chart from an article on ZeroHedge showing the rise of government “transfer payments…
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Crypto Correction is Healthy

By Adam Sharp on April 23, 2021

Bitcoin and the broader crypto markets are pulling back. Bitcoin slipped below $50,000 today and is currently trading around $49,700.  This is nothing to be concerned about. We’ve come an incredibly long way over the last 14 months. And pullbacks are healthy and to be expected.
One year ago — on March 12th, 2020 — bitcoin was trading at $6,131 per coin. It had been valued at more than $12,000 in June 2019. But markets everywhere were in a bit of a panic last March, and stocks were trading…
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JP Morgan released an interesting survey this week. It polled 3,400 institutional investors — representing 1,500 firms — about their views on crypto. Here are some highlights: 11% of respondents work at firms that own or trade crypto. 22% said their companies are likely…

Protect Your Portfolio While You Can

By Adam Sharp on July 10, 2020

It’s a strange world out there for investors today. Stocks in the U.S. are very expensive — despite the fact that S&P 500 earnings may drop 40% in the second quarter. Investment grade bonds yield tiny amounts that amount to basically…
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‘Money Printer Go Brrr’ Goes Mainstream

By Adam Sharp on June 26, 2020

We’ve been talking about the inevitability of massive money printing for the past few years. It’s one of the big reasons I like crypto so much. Now everyone, including mainstream CNBC shows like “Fast Money,” are talking about how the Federal Reserve’s actions are causing stock prices to go up.
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Crypto Talk: Why is Bitcoin Outperforming the S&P 500?

By Early Investing on June 18, 2020

Bitcoin has been trading around $9,500 for a little while now. And it’s up 31% on the year. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is down a little more than 4% for the year. Why is bitcoin performing so well? And just how bullish is bitcoin’s outlook? Those are…
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“Money Printing” Going Mainstream

By Adam Sharp on April 24, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has jumpstarted a critically important discussion about the effects of printing money.

How Will Bitcoin Perform in the Next Financial Crisis?

By Adam Sharp on December 13, 2019

It’s been 10 years since bitcoin first launched. Now the question is this: How will bitcoin perform during the next financial crisis?

Mailbag: To Short or Not to Short

By Early Investing on December 6, 2019

In this week’s Mailbag, the Early Investing team explains whether it recommends shorting U.S. stocks and what happens to your shares when a startup gets bought out.