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Gold vs Bitcoin vs other stores of value Jun 15, 2021

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In today's Hardcore Finance show we interview Ravi Sood, a Canadian financier and venture capitalist. Sood was raised in Waterloo, Ontario and resides in Hong Kong. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Navina Asset Management and its predecessor company Lawrence Asset Management, which at its peak controlled over $800 million in assets globally.
Sood has also founded several businesses operating in emerging markets, including Buchanan Renewables, Feronia Inc., Jade Power Trust, and Galane Gold. He is well known in Canada as a regular TV personality and frequent guest host of the Business News Network's evening news programme "Squeeze Play".
We discussed Gold vs Bitcoin as a store of value, the impact of the recent global monetary expansion on investments in different sectors, and a lot more.
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Interview with David J Kovacs - CEO of Emmersive Entertainment at Bitcoin Miami 2021 Jun 07, 2021

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David Kovacs - the co-founder of First Contact Entertainment and Founder & CEO of Emmersive Entertainment - talks to Alex about his new acquisition of Lomotif, his vision for NFTs, and his plans to help artists monetize their creations. This was the hottest talk in the pressroom of Bitcoin 2021
David Kovacs' background is fascinating specializing in investment banking, private equity, and venture capital and has extensive experience in both mature and emerging markets, having analyzed hundreds of deals and executed both buy and sell-side engagements. Mr. Kovacs served as the Head of Investment Banking, Research, and Private Equity for North America for Fitch Learning (Fitch Ratings). Before that, he held private equity and investment banking roles in key positions with Hinduja Group, Blackstone Group, and Citigroup. Mr. Kovacs lectures at many of the leading investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and government agencies, including the Securities & Exchange Commission, New York City Controller’s Office, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, JP Morgan, Barclays, Citigroup, RBC, RBS, Lazard, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank. David Kovacs, the co-founder of First Contact Entertainment and Founder & CEO of Emmersive Entertainment. David talks to Alex about his new acquisition of Lomotif, his vision for NFTs, and his plans to help artists monetize their creations.
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The Ultimate Bitcoin Stress Test May 26, 2021

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In this episode Shimon and Alex chat about the latest Bitcoin price drop, the FUD around Bitcoin, the China Ban, and Elon Musk's Energy tweets. Does it all matter? Should we be scared?
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Bitcoin's value proposition - interview with Croesus May 19, 2021

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Today Shimon is joined by Croesus - one of the best twitter handles to follow on bitcoin. We discuss Bitcoin's value proposition, its comparison to the stock market, inflation and a lot more.
- Business school attitudes towards bitcoin
- Ethereum as a technology vs bitcoin as a breakthrough in money
- Bitcoin bootstrapping itself from nothingness to being an increasingly credible store of value
- The significance of halving cycles
- Hyperinflation and price stability
- The stock market as a hedge against inflation
- Life experiences of losing faith in the credibility of government's monetary policy
- The M2 money supply chart going up and to the right with an annual growth rate of 8% even before the latest monetary stimulus package
- Why is an 8% increase in the money supply result in only 2% CPI inflation
- Basket of goods changing in the CPI index
- The technological deflationary environment offsetting the inflationary pressure created by monetary expansion
- Keynes' statement "in the long term we're all dead"
- Is price stability and full employment good targets for the federal reserve?
- Banning bitcoin is sanctioning yourself
- Government supporters of Bitcoin (Cynthia Lummis, Margaret Croke and others)
- The privatization of money
- Democracy as a platform that is conducive to monetary expansion
- Gold mining creates an uncertainty in its supply schedule
- Portfolio rebalancing - is it a good strategy?
- Bitcoin as pristine collateral
- Is the stock market a good protection against inflation vs Bitcoin?
- Land as a store of value
- Bitcoin's monetary policy as a technology that has never existed before.
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Launching The State of Illinois into the Cryptoverse with Representative Margaret Croke May 12, 2021

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Shimon and Alex welcome Representative Margaret Croke from Illinois’ 12th District – Go Cubs!

Representative Croke is a freshman State Legislator embarking on world-changing things. She has led the charge to make Illinois the most crypto and Bitcoin friendly state in the U.S. and allowed Shimon and Alex to tag along for the ride. In this episode we discuss how Bitcoin and Crypto are sources for good and will be beneficial to Illinois and the U.S. beyond FinTech and even beyond job creation – although both are critically important. We talk about banking the unbanked, renewable energy, equity, wealth preservation, immigration, and much more.

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Launching The State of Illinois into the Cryptoverse with Representative Margaret Croke - Preview May 10, 2021

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On Wednesday May 12th Shimon and Alex welcome Representative Margaret Croke from Illinois’ 12th District – Go Cubs!
Representative Croke is a freshman State Legislator embarking on world-changing things. She has led the charge to make Illinois the most crypto and Bitcoin friendly state in the U.S. and allowed Shimon and Alex to tag along for the ride. In this episode we discuss how Bitcoin and Crypto are sources for good and will be beneficial to Illinois and the U.S. beyond FinTech and even beyond job creation – although both are critically important. We talk about banking the unbanked, renewable energy, equity, wealth preservation, immigration, and much more.
Help us and help Representative Croke put Illinois on the Crypto map!
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Investing in Innovation with NEA's Ben Narasin May 05, 2021

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Today, Shimon and Alex welcome famed entrepreneur and star VC – Ben Narasin of NEA.
We discuss what founders should look for in VCs, where pockets of opportunity are in the market, how to think about innovation, the Biden proposed Capital Gains Tax increases, and even Bitcoin and crypto.
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NEA is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses with nearly $24 billion in cumulative committed capital. NEA focuses on tech and healthcare companies.
Ben is a prolific entrepreneur and a highly regarded early-stage investor with mega hits such as: Dropcam, Lending Club, TellApart, Kabbage and Zenefits. And his own IPO of Fashionmall.com in 1999.
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Ben Narasin Preview May 04, 2021

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On Wednesday, May 5th, on the Hardcore Finance Show (http://hardcorefinance.com), Shimon and Alex welcome famed entrepreneur and star VC – Ben Narasin of NEA.
We discuss what founders should look for in VCs, where pockets of opportunity are in the market, how to think about innovation, the Biden proposed Capital Gains Tax increases, and even Bitcoin and crypto.
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NEA is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses with nearly $24 billion in cumulative committed capital. NEA focuses on tech and healthcare companies.
Ben is a prolific entrepreneur and a highly regarded early-stage investor with mega hits such as: Dropcam, Lending Club, TellApart, Kabbage and Zenefits. And his own IPO of Fashionmall.com in 1999.
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President Biden's Cap Gains Tax Plan Disaster Apr 28, 2021

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Today Alex talks about his view of President Biden’s Tax Policy – specifically his proposal to increase capital gains taxes to 43.8% on individuals making more than $1,000,000 per year. In our view this is a disastrous policy with terrible consequences and it goes much deeper than “tax the rich”.
In this episode, Alex discusses:
1. The origin of Capital gains taxes and why they are unique
2. Capital vs. Income taxes
3. Entrepreneurship, risk taking, and their ties to Capital Gains
4. Wealth vs. Money – how they are vastly different
5. Inflation
6. Leverage and unintended behavior
7. Trading frequency
8. The Government vs. the Individual
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Vroom Vroom will we get an Infrastructure Boom? With Dritan Nesho Apr 22, 2021

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Today Shimon and Alex discuss Infrastructure with Dritan Nesho. Dritan was ranked the most accurate pollster of the 2020 election cycle and brings with him fresh data on Biden’s infrastructure plan. Do most Americans want the bill to pass? Do Democrats? You’ll be surprised at the latest polling data!
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