@fw_naetoblaq Try epsom salts bath. Then massage 'sweetbee' magnesium butter on soles of feet 30 mins before normal bedtime (10pm) and put socks on afterwards.
@JordInvests Your number makes more sense now you've declared investing £20k/ year for the last 2 minimum. Was beginning to think I'd been cheated as I'm on the same lifestrategy investment vehicles.
TRUTH BOMB ALERT
I can’t tell you how to get rich, that’s a mix of luck, timing, and hard work, but I can tell you how rich people STAY rich:
- They buy assets and do nothing
If you want to test a politician's integrity, ask them to explain inflation, whether they should be eliminating it and how they will do it.
The chart below shows the problem:
- Yellow line = CPI (the government’s BS version of the cost of living)
- Other lines = real assets: Gold, House Prices, the S&P 500, Bitcoin
Here are the growth factors from 1995 → 2024:
- CPI: 2.02×
- Wages: 2.27×
- House prices: 5.27×
- Gold: 6.17×
- S&P 500: 10.33×
Bitcoin launched in 2009 so I am holding off on that, but it is another tool which protects against inflation.
Now for wage growth - 2.27×, barely above inflation.
So what is the conclusion - assets crush both wages and inflation. The do nothing strategy, it is magic!
If you don’t own assets, you’re treading water. But it gets worse, if CPI actually included the real cost of participating in society (housing, energy, childcare, transport) you wouldn’t even be treading water, you’d be sinking.
You know how everything feels more expensive - yeah that is this. Can't get on the housing ladder - yeah that is this. Rich guy bought another Porsche - yeah that is this.
That gap, the gap between CPI and asset prices, is where wealth inequality is created. It is a transfer of money from the poor and middle-class to the rich.
Asset holders get rich off morons in government, you know the virtuous free stuff politics. Non-asset holders get poorer.
These are the numbers. This is the system. Facts don't care about you feelings.
And any politician who can’t explain it, or won’t fix it, is a fraud.
Anyone who says "tax the rich" and think this is done with the tax code is a moron.
Bitcoin is not a speculative toy anymore… it has become a leading signal for global risk. Hear me out.
Bitcoin isn’t following the market anymore…
Bitcoin is the market’s early warning system.
It isn’t sliding because crypto is weak… it’s sliding because it has become the canary in the global risk coal mine.
The crowd still thinks stocks set the mood… but Bitcoin is now front-running every high beta asset on the board.
ETF outflows… regulatory pressure… a tightening dollar- Bitcoin reacts to these shifts hours or even days before tech stocks blink. That’s why the volatility feels extreme. It’s not noise. It’s signal.
Institutions treat BTC as the first place where risk sentiment cracks… and the first place where it heals.
Retail still thinks Bitcoin follows Nasdaq.
The truth is starting to turn the other way.
Most traders miss this part. Bitcoin isn’t lagging the system… it’s reading it. And when the liquidity current flips, it will flip here first… long before the crowd realises what changed.
#BitcoinOG #CryptoMarket
@great_martis Lazy view. Almost timely during a period of downturn. Perhaps someone looking to drive down price further in order to get a decent entry point...
@afsheenjaf With liquidity slowly coming into the space via stable coins, could you see a dip back to the $80k region in Q4 2025/ early Q1 2026, before an euphoric phase in late Q1/ Q2 2026 with a blow off top close to £200k in 2026?