@EsotericKang Hoping we finally at the Moon -> Crash -> reversal stage weโve all been expecting ๐ค๐ฝ lord knows weโve all waited long enough
Bessent Is Not Reacting. He Is Forcing Bretton Woods 2.0, and getting out in front.
Bessent is emerging as the most consequential Treasury Secretary since Alexander Hamilton and much of the policy establishment still does not see it. This is not a random turn in markets. It is the long-delayed reckoning for decades of excess leverage, central bank overreach, and willful policy blindness.
The roadmap was written in Japan. Postwar growth, fueled by mercantilism and Bank of Japan-directed credit, was supercharged through window guidance and artificially suppressed rates. The result was predictable: a historic asset bubble followed by collapse.
What came next, zero rates, quantitative easing, and a permanent liquidity trap, was not bad luck. It was the logical endpoint of sustained market distortion. U.S. policymakers studied it, then repeated it after the Global Financial Crisis.
The United States drifted into its own version of secular stagnation. Now, that era is ending. Supply-side reform, deregulation, and pro-growth tax policy, set in motion under Trump, are colliding with a repricing of capital and the return of private markets as the arbiter of credit and interest rates.
The reality is unavoidable: the global economy is buried in debt. It cannot function with structurally high rates. Rates must come down, not to stimulate excess, but to allow the real economy to breathe again.
Enter Bessent. What he is executing, alongside the Federal Reserve, is not traditional yield curve controlโit is strategic control of the long end. The 10-year yield is the fulcrum of the global system. This is not volatility. It is policy.
And it carries real risk: the rise in long-end yields and the yenโs devaluation are fault lines. The lessons of LTCM remain as relevant as ever. Bessent is getting out in front .
The Keynesian response is predictable, hand-wringing over Treasury-Fed coordination. But this critique rests on a false premise: that the Federal Reserve should operate in isolation from elected leadership and national economic strategy. It never has. It never will.
Bessent is moving with intent: cutting off the IRGCโs financial lifelines while managing the unwind of the yen carry trade. These are not isolated developments. They are coordinated moves to unwind distortions decades in the making.
This is Bretton Woods 2.0, not just a financial system, but a strategic one. Rules matter. Standards matter. The Clarity Act is not a side issue; it is a signal. The United States is writing the rules for the next era of capital formation, digital assets, and financial power. That some, particularly on the Warren left, fail to grasp this is not surprising, but it is consequential.
Bessent is not reacting to markets. He is disciplining them and in the process, redefining the system itself.
Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh are both signaling to markets that they are prepared to sacrifice the bond market and the U.S. dollar to support equities.
A substantial dollar devaluation may therefore be in the cards, similar to the Plaza Accord or the devaluation in 2002โ04.
@Siriust1982 I hope so. PTSD from this.. He's deleted his post from last year, but he posted this same video last year this same date, and it ended up being that the flames going out ment the rocket looked primed to launched but failed ๐ซฅ๐ฅบ
@underQontrol PTSD from this.. He's deleted his post from last year, but he posted this same video last year this same date, and it ended up being that the flames going out ment the rocket looked primed to launched but failed ๐ซฅ๐ฅบ
"Flip the Switch"
Cancer is noted by this symbol: โ๏ธ
69/96 comms
When you flip a switch, it's from the "off" position to the "on" - dark to light.
Leo โ๏ธ is the sun. Light.
First day of Leo 7/23: 123
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