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Josh Hendrickson
Professor of Economics and Chair, Ole Miss; Senior Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute
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Last Notes npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Can’t believe that Claude scooped Barry on the rug pull. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “You see that? It’s a plan to have Fannie and Freddie buy $200 billion in mortgage securities. If you did that, it would be called QE, but we’re going to do it. You can’t do it. You won’t do it. We’re going to do it. Believe me. We’re going to do it.” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Full Transcript https://www.mercatus.org/macro-musings/will-luther-and-josh-hendrickson-future-bitcoin npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Will Luther and I discuss bitcoin on Macro Musings. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ODOGYA8hokbdbheuSR4j5?si=hldl5_TTRQihCl_WUfZShw npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof On Paper Bitcoin Summer. https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/paper-bitcoin-summer npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “They’re calling it Paper Bitcoin Summer. You wouldn’t believe it.” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Stablecoins and financial repression. https://t.co/b43HJR4fwc npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The Fed-Treasury Accord looks like it’s about to end. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Is Dollar Dominance Good for the U.S.? https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/is-dollar-dominance-good-for-the npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Should we worry about global imbalances? https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/should-we-worry-about-global-imbalances npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Are We Headed for Financial Repression? https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/are-we-headed-for-financial-repression npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The Continental Dollar: Fiat money or credit money? https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/was-the-continental-dollar-a-story npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://blossom.primal.net/95a66592e45fd1b714c12d2998b40f027ba7d461310c5212f8ec6a2aadd45188.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof 👀 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Is Dollar Dominance Good for the U.S.? https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/is-dollar-dominance-good-for-the npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof 👀 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Satoshi Papers event next week at UATX. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/press-releases/the-university-of-austin-uatx-partners-with-the-texas-bitcoin-foundation-bitcoin-policy-institute-unchained-and-strive-to-host-the-satoshi-papers-symposium npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://x.com/pahueg/status/1902769224444936389 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Less Noise. More Signal. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://youtu.be/YruuCoFfL-k npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://youtu.be/zaxmMKn21NE npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Inflation is Bad, Actually npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The Bitcoin Policy Institute’s 2024 year in review. https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/2024-year-in-review npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Me, writing about the importance of the difficulty adjustment. https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/bitcoin-and-the-genius-of-the-difficulty-adjustment npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Enjoyed this discussion in Dallas. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof On Tuesday one of my students in my Bitcoin class was like “when we started this class bitcoin was only around $50,000 and now it’s almost $100,000.” I replied, “yes, it’s causal” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof From me, two years ago. https://x.com/rebeleconprof/status/1594837019464962055?s=46&t=ff1uw94NeHBuMq0gCR-ICA npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof More Inflation Stories Don’t Add Up https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/most-inflation-stories-dont-add-up npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://m.primal.net/MeEV.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://x.com/btcpolicyorg/status/1857541855526736094 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Don’t say I didn’t warn you about the coping and the seething. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Listen to me, Matt Pines, and Matthew Ferranti talk about a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSe269Kw3dA npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof We are about to witness unprecedented levels of coping and seething. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Happy to have contributed to BPI’s Policy Brief on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the U.S. You can read it here: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/627aa615676bdd562bec97cd/6728fc69a46dd5394bf3e73d_BPI%20Policy%20Brief%20Digital%20Gold.pdf npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://x.com/btcpolicyorg/status/1839736559991410833?s=12 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Hey @npub1der…xzpc , my students will be reading “Bitcoin is Time” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://open.substack.com/pub/pricetheory/p/im-teaching-a-course-on-bitcoin-why npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Some thoughts on a Bitcoin strategic reserve. I provide the economic rationale for doing this, but also discuss some of the potential costly pitfalls from doing so. https://t.co/GS3IrtosBU npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Have you heard of this thing? Bitcoin? Everywhere I go people are talking about it. It’s really something. Some guy created it. Satoshi. Whoever that is. Nobody knows. Really. Nobody knows. Frankly, it’s a little surprising that nobody knows. I mean someone knows. We don’t know. But we really like the coin. It’s a terrific coin. We’ve talked to coin people and they said it’s probably the best coin. Some people have said I might be Satoshi. Can you believe it? npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The Satoshi Papers, Forthcoming (and featuring me). https://t.co/RqrdvTRaAv npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Some thoughts on A.I., its potential to make us all rich, and its existential risks. https://open.substack.com/pub/pricetheory/p/is-ai-going-to-make-us-rich-or-kill npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://m.primal.net/IrAm.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://m.primal.net/IrAB.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof I got rug pulled on the release date, but you can order your copy and get it at the same time as me. @npub1yez…awc7 @npub10af…0xj0 @npub1jdd…4s60 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof As I said… https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoins-could-stave-off-a-us-debt-crisis-china-digital-currency-c491d717?mod=opinion_lead_pos5 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://www.wsj.com/articles/stablecoins-could-stave-off-a-us-debt-crisis-china-digital-currency-c491d717 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Don't call it a sign of the times when it's always been this way npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Logging in to Nostr npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Look at this figure and ask yourself which of these expenses will be easiest to cut. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Thanks. I think (at least initially) what we’re going to see are the big finance companies that already operate money market mutual funds essentially do the same thing with stablecoins. Competition will likely push them to pay interest on these stablecoins (in terms of the stablecoin itself). However, doing so would make them securities. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof If Things Are So Great, Why Don’t People Think So? https://t.co/FAI9Clfprk npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Me, on the Macro Musings podcast. https://www.mercatus.org/macro-musings/josh-hendrickson-treasury-standard-and-global-dollar-dominance npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://t.co/pGETbhirTo npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof From “The Genesis Book” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Still the greatest quote in the history of quotes. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof A brief summary of my paper, “The Treasury Standard” https://open.substack.com/pub/pricetheory/p/the-treasury-standard npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Stablecoins and Government Debt https://t.co/kbMHWVtavv npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Thanks! npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof My keynote from the Bitcoin Policy Summit. https://youtu.be/0z4iGRR5yeI npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://image.nostr.build/cd08e6c590eb616407e6df32c0ab7a8185f3f60badd3776bf1c02778f98603ec.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof At long last, the draft is here. "The Treasury Standard: Causes and Consequences" https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4759755 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Prepare thyself. https://image.nostr.build/9d6aca78feb825b79c8abf624983dade77a97d47077c38c12e583b1b4ec32fdc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/17740070da17862d8a533cb501cd5c0cec56808fc135e2f68a1260fbfc82e5db.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Okay, so there was this economist named Ronald Coase and he wrote this paper on durable assets. One implication you could draw from the paper is that if you issued your own money, it probably wouldn’t work unless you promised to buy it back for a fixed quantity of something of value or if you promised to limit the quantity of the money. But promises require trust and people probably wouldn’t just trust the issuer of money to do the right thing and not print too much. But there’s this thing called Bitcoin and it solves that problem. The supply of bitcoin is fixed and no one has an incentive to change that. So it’s like a new solution to this problem. I read about it on Economic Forces. https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/what-can-coase-teach-us-about-paintings https://image.nostr.build/60cd7c9530f176b4983544f58103fe184856cd57c7d5822b928715ddf364335a.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Our Problem is Fragility. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://image.nostr.build/61d3fd4c08f78307f4729958ad2c7993c5da98c577db3580b9b7416559a68375.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b82d46f75f309dfc6f0f2548f709bc482d1a06e10ab23de352f1ab05f2aad198.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d2b8a8e75cfd84d4013718d04c5e5e570434fcf02518494d1d490aebe5c07b0c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c6aa62304bdccc71b389dafb7a4012edd03fbfd678b472f9d538aa32eca1e4f0.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://image.nostr.build/1a9cdb41fdefa1bac62a0c7eb874eb1f2cd44fca977c1cf4653c16a942002115.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b7f511f298f8e4489862979c7bd4547f277ee5212900bf5cdc3dd01896b01dea.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ea8a6e105df45771b9021ed7163e1817b0386f8ac01cc60ad20db3dd629e2ec9.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://image.nostr.build/dc21313328a745f0a04485277bc7b96d028efece1102e220ceabe71e044d4858.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Bold strategy https://image.nostr.build/ec838f18f084011d39c70393f524db83a3f1ca42e21a2aa4866953838ae2843f.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof If it’s a crime to depreciate Argentina’s currency, I’m afraid the prosecutor is going to busy for the rest of his life. https://image.nostr.build/d15170082dcc5e05e8651e3a429bd0e2de26c21e4457d97823045b0857872456.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://overcast.fm/+8ctWJkGOg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof RonPaul_ItsHappening.gif https://twitter.com/bitcoinpark_/status/1684513422879211520?s=12 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “We can no longer count on sacrificial resources based on false religions to keep this violence at bay. We are reaching a degree of self-awareness and responsibility that was never attained by those who lived before us. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The blue check is a honey pot. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/57845266e1ed1b638949888f44ac78dfdac9eed9580d8d6b95fdfa8b97673839.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “What is really frightening today is not the challenge of this new meaning, but the Kafkaesque rejection of all meaning. What is frightening is the conjunction of massive technical power and the spiritual surrender of nihilism. A panic-stricken refusal to glance, even furtively, in the only direction where meaning could still be found dominates our intellectual life.” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may ‘conquer’ them. We are always conquering Nature, because ‘Nature’ is the name for what we have, to some extent, conquered.” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “It was impossible for the Western movement to understand Communism as merely a new version of that eternal reactionism against which it had been fighting for centuries. It had to admit that the Western project which had provided in its way against all earlier forms of evil could not provide against the new form in speech or in deed. For some time it seemed sufficient to say that while the Western movement agrees with Communism regarding the goal—the universal prosperous society of free and equal men and women—it disagrees with it regarding the means: for Communism, the end, the common good of the whole human race, being the most sacred thing, justifies any means; whatever contributes to the achievement of the most sacred end partakes of its sacredness and is therefore itself sacred, whatever hinders the achievement of that end is devilish. The murder of Lumumba was described by a Communist as a reprehensible murder by which he implied that there can be irreprehensible murders, like the murder of Nagy. It came to be seen then that there is not only a difference of degree but of kind between the Western movement and Communism, and this difference was seen to concern morality, the choice of means. In other words, it became clearer than it had been for some time that no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint. For the same reason it could no longer be denied that Communism will remain, as long as it lasts in fact and not merely in name, the iron rule of a tyrant which is mitigated or aggravated by his fear of palace revolutions. The only restraint in which the West can put some confidence is the tyrant's fear of the West's immense military power.” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof “The fear of losing wealth arouses the same emotions in men as the desire to gain it, since men do not feel secure in what they already have except by acquiring still more. Moreover, these new acquisitions are themselves means of strength and power for abuse; and, worse still, the arrogant behavior and contempt of the nobles and the rich arouses not only the desire for wealth and position among those who have none, but also the hunger to avenge themselves by stripping the wealthy of those riches and honors which they see them employ so badly.” npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://nostr.build/i/11a125a5ece1c864e7fdccf7dc6dcf016f8c14badb85c2b0add0abc6bf4966f2.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof You have to have a blue check for the site to work. Ngmi. https://nostr.build/i/a02bf1c1d139daf09d4b9c7be7979b640bc60bf7b936f0a2e2c4ecab00db222e.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Come and take it, Tim Apple npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof In the wake of the DAME tax proposal, a lot of bitcoiners have pointed out that the Council of Economic Advisers doesn’t understand bitcoin. It’s worse than that. They don’t seem to understand economics. They get the basic economic theory wrong. And, by their own logic, some types of bitcoin mining should be subsidized. New from me: https://www.aier.org/article/cea-deserves-an-f-on-bitcoin-mining-tax-analysis/ npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof 👀 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://nostr.build/av/nostr.build_96c0918023fa7b111586cb65063784aef6b70b478b72549565407e1ecf50535b.mov npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_0447b437bb98ac130736e32a201cc548282983c0050d902dc7c17ae2fe27389f.jpg npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof 👀 npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof https://youtu.be/flD6VW0BhYo npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof By the end of the week, someone will have created a BIP-39 themed dart board. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof How Can We Align the Interests of Bank Shareholders with Depositors? https://pricetheory.substack.com/p/who-should-care-about-depositors npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof People are desperate to blame inflation on anything but Federal Reserve policy. They’d rather blame greedy corporations. Some people even point to rising markups of prices over costs as evidence that this is all just greed. But some basic knowledge of price theory tells us that if markups are rising, this is driven by demand and, in particular, expansionary monetary policy. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The trillion dollar coin idea to “solve” the debt ceiling would basically just have the Fed operate like FTX — worthless tokens as assets, immune from market valuations. Also, like FTX, this trick would make the central bank insolvent. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Central bankers continue to use the Phillips Curve as a guide for monetary policy. This demonstrates a basic lack of understanding about the Phillips Curve itself and the last 50 years of macroeconomic theory. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The conventional wisdom on historical asset bubbles is that these were episodes of irrational exuberance. In reality, historical asset bubbles were much more interesting. The South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Bubble were the end result of government debt consolidation schemes. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Cash, But Electronic https://pricetheory.substack.com/p/cash-but-electronic npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Economists routinely talk about the problems associated with monopoly, but there’s one monopoly that goes unquestioned: the monopoly on currency issuance. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Inflation and Time https://pricetheory.substack.com/p/inflation-and-time npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Thanks. I had a blast talking with Preston and Rod and meeting everyone. Great time. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Listen to me and Preston Pysh talk about bitcoin, live (well, it was live) from Bitcoin Park. https://overcast.fm/+8ctXdVtog npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof The Fed is like a child trying to build the tallest tower of blocks. Each new lending facility adds a block to the tower. Each new block makes the tower look more impressive. But the taller the tower, the less stable the tower becomes and the more likely a small shock can bring the whole tower crashing down. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof It’s become increasingly evident to people that we're on an unsustainable path. npub18wgtxzhx75qd2aq3gn35mcv5m8zx7z6xdsf6a95asltys70deekqqjr2wn rebeleconprof Schrödinger's bond prices
