In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
[📹 The Curiosity Show]
Trump using the DOJ to pressure Powell - with talk of subpoenas and even indictment threats - to push the Fed into cutting rates and gain more control over monetary policy is not something we had on our cards.
This matters because when markets perceive monetary policy is bending to politics (especially to force lower rates), you typically get a credibility hit first, then a currency / risk-premium hit, and often higher inflation later. The impact depends on whether it’s a system with deep markets (US/UK) or an emerging market where confidence breaks faster (Turkey/Argentina type setups).
We've seen similar versions around the world. Even the US has a historical example: in 1942, the Fed agreed to cap/peg Treasury yields to help finance WWII (basically rate control).
Stocks absolutely soared during that period.
Now add what's being pushed on top:
- Trump ordering $200B of MBS buying via Fannie/Freddie
- Plus ~$500B defense spending
- Proposing a one-year 10% cap on credit card interest rates
- The planned purchase of Greenland
- Fed buying ~$40B monthly in T-bills
All of this highlights how politics is pushing monetary control.
We're living in exciting times. If you want to make it through this mess, own hard assets. Bitcoin was built for this kind of world. Gold is already soaring.
The real question: is Bitcoin just lagging and will it catch up fast once the pressure lifts?
Global liquidity suggests yes. In our data, momentum is rising sharply, and the odds of higher prices keep increasing with each week.
Global liquidity has risen +$0.05T (+0.034%)
... and the end result is that Losers in later life fall into a depressive mental state when they realize they haven't achieved anything and everyone has left them.
Then they have moments of realization when theyre in their 50s and 60s that they've run out of excuses, cant blame others anymore for their failures and that it was actually them all along that caused their own end result of failure. But then its too late to do anything about it. This is when self destruction / implosion really accelerates for the Loser.
Winners on the other hand in later life feel content when looking at and assessing all their achievements and the decisions and hard work they did to get there. Every time adversity in life occured, winners look back and know they used it as fuel to get better, improve and win harder. They know as the end of their life nears, they've lived a resilient and successful life, that was ultimately shaped by their positive predisposition, good decisions and behaviours.
Resentment and Envy also create VERY powerful emotions. Winners remind Losers of all of their inadequecies and shortcomings and it drives them absolutely insane.
@compliantvc@elonmusk You've literally just declared yourself an idiot who is too stupid to think for himself and would rather outsource his thinking to 3rd parties. Way to go Sir!
@cecilia_hsueh@ZanderAzlan Great advice, luckily its a problem that will take care of itself. Your literally promoting Darwinism. If you want to take yourself out of the gene pool on purpose then you and your hedonistic mentality will thankfully disappear over time. Its survival of the fittest after all.
CASH DIES IN 847 DAYS
Europe just legislated the end of financial freedom and nobody noticed.
January 2027: Every euro above €10,000 becomes illegal tender. Every Bitcoin needs government permission. Every transaction becomes a datapoint in Brussels’ surveillance grid.
This is not proposed. This is law.
340 million Europeans will wake up in a cage built from their own bank accounts.
THE KILL SHOT
The EU Anti-Money Laundering package doesn’t just track criminals. It treats every citizen as one. Starting 2027, buying a car in cash becomes a crime. Sending €1,001 in Bitcoin without state approval triggers prosecution. Anonymous wallets vanish overnight.
The Digital Euro arrives 2029. The European Central Bank spent €1.3 billion building what they call freedom. But leaked proposals cap holdings at €3,000 per person. Every purchase tracked. Every pattern analyzed. Every dissent potentially bankable.
THE LIE THEY’RE SELLING
“This stops money laundering.” Europe launders €500 billion yearly, they claim. So they’re building a panopticon for 340 million people to catch the fraction who commit crimes.
China’s digital yuan already programs money to expire, to restrict, to control. The ECB promises Europe will be different.
They promised deposit safety in Cyprus too. Then they seized accounts in 2013.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Privacy coins migrate to the shadows. Black markets replace grey ones. The state gains omniscience. You lose the right to buy bread without permission.
This isn’t about crime. It’s about power. €20 trillion flows through the eurozone. Every cent will soon require approval from Frankfurt.
The infrastructure of tyranny gets built in the name of safety. Always.
THE CLOCK IS RUNNING
847 days until your cash becomes contraband. 1,308 days until the Digital Euro launches. Zero days of mainstream coverage asking the only question that matters:
Who decides what you’re allowed to buy when money becomes permission?
The European Union just made Orwell an instruction manual.
And you heard it here first.