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FedWatch - Battle Over The Digital Dollar Mar 04, 2023

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Fed Watch is a macro podcast with a clear contrarian thesis of a deflationary breakdown of the financial system leading to bitcoin adoption. We question narratives and schools of thought, and try to form new understanding. Each episode we use current events to question mainstream and bitcoin narratives across the globe, with an emphasis on central banks and currencies.

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In this episode, we are joined once again by Nolan Bauerle. Our topics are very interesting in this episode. First, of course, we cover the bitcoin charts and some other important macro charts, like the dollar, the stock market and the US 10Y Treasury.

Second, we get to our headline topic, a brand new bill in the US Congress that calls out an attempt for a digital dollar by executive order. The bill tries to block that. We read through it and other important material straight from the Federal Reserve’s own report on CBDCs from 2022.

Lastly, we scan through the rapidly evolving situation in regards to China. Not only is there diplomatic and military news, but there is a ton of financial news. We focus on the latter. Story #1 is about Chinese banks getting a tongue lashing from CCP, putting them in their place as lubricant providers, not part of the "new elite". Story #2 is about China falling out of the top-3 most attractive destinations for foreign investment. Our final article is about mainland China making it more difficult to get brokerage accounts in Hong Kong which enables Chinese citizens to invest abroad. We tie this last point into the news about Hong Kong also opening back up to Bitcoin.

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An all-star cast of Jeanine, Abubakar, Mills, Spencer Nichols, and Matt Odell discuss the connection between freedom and money. Be sure to check out the new show "Freedom Money" premiering on the Bitcoin Magazine youtube channel.

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Bitcoin Oridinals and Inscriptions w/ Casey Rodarmor Feb 28, 2023

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Casey Rodarmor visits this Bitcoin Magazine Spaces to discuss how Bitcoin Ordinals and Inscriptions affect Bitcoin and what to expect in the future.

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Bitcoin Jobs w/ Bitcoin Talent Co Feb 26, 2023

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Bitcoin Talent Co breaks down how to get a job working in Bitcoin and how they plan to help Bitcoiners find jobs within the industry.

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FedWatch - Why the China Reopening is All Hype Feb 25, 2023

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Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles

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In this episode, we examine the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) minutes from their most recent meeting and see what we can learn from it, we look at the bitcoin chart and discuss what's going on in the bitcoin market, and lastly, we read through some recent news about China, focusing on why the hopes placed on reopening are likely all hype.

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BM Pro - Bitcoin vs the Dollar w/ Preston Pysh and Dylan LeClair Feb 23, 2023

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Preston Pysh visits the BM Pro podcast to break down his thoughts about Bitcoin vs the Dollar.

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FedWatch 132 - US CPI and EU Banks told to Cap Bitcoin Purchases Feb 20, 2023

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Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles

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In this episode, we discuss US CPI for January 2023 and use different commodities and macro prices and indicators to understand and interpret the data. We look at things like the bitcoin price, the dollar, energy and shipping costs. The latter two were the main drivers behind the 2021-2022 CPI rises.

What we found was that there are no price pressures whatsoever in the economy. Nothing that could duplicate the effects from the last couple of years.

We also talk about the updates to the CPI calculations and try to come to a conclusion, whether they pushed CPI higher in January or lower.

Then we get into a new policy statement by the ECB, which threatens European banks that, although not legally binding and not even through the approval process, banks must comply with the new Basel limits on bitcoin in reserves. Of course, this is crazy, and going to lead to tons of problems when bitcoin pumps.

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Cosmic Bitcoin - The Bitcoin Singularity w/ Luke Broyles Feb 17, 2023

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On this Cosmic Bitcoin, Luke Broyles explains how Bitcoin the singularity will change our world as we know it and provide the foundation for massive advances as society.

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FedWatch 131 -This Will Crash the Economy, Credit Creation Plunges Feb 13, 2023

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Hosts: Ansel Lindner and Christian Keroles

In this episode, we discuss niche economic data from the Federal Reserve called the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey or SLOOS report. Then our conversation turns to the UK’s attempts to build a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) which they have dubbed “Britcoin”.

The SLOOS data shows lending practices and state of the market according to a very broad survey of banks, mainly in the US but it does include some foreign banks. January’s data was categorically bad news.

There are two sides to a lending market, the lender and the borrower. Then the survey breaks it into two broad types of loans, business and households, and then further into two more components for each of those sub-types, commercial and industrial (C&I) and commercial real estate for business, and consumer real estate and consumer loans for households.

Almost every component was worse in January. Lending standards by banks tightened nearly across the board, and demand for loans fell in each.

This is a bad sign because, as we discuss a lot on the show, lending is where money is actually printed. If lending (AKA credit creation) is slowing rapidly, that puts immediate deflationary pressure on the economy.

Next we look at the UK’s attempt to build a CBDC. At this stage, their attempts remain confined to convincing people there is an actual need for a CBDC. Despite the fear-mongering rhetoric from many quarters, they are about as far away from a CBDC launch as they’ve always been.

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