John Mattson

Wisconsin Alum | 15yr Finance Vet (Bear Stearns & KBW) | Real Estate | Artist | Golfer | Chicago sports fan | #Bitcoin

[John Mattson @jvmatt3]

@Aina_Ai2 Ireland

[Senator Tim Scott @SenatorTimScott]

The Clarity Act takes the side of everyday Americans.

This historic legislation brings digital assets out of the shadows and into a system that is safer, fairer, and more transparent!

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

I've spent years building toward this moment. The Clarity Act is the most consequential financial legislation of this generation and we are going to get it done.

[James Lavish @jameslavish]

I'll give you 39,204,974,715,249 reasons.

[John Mattson @jvmatt3]

@GaryCardone 105k … 🤷🏼‍♂️ contrarian

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

Another massive L for Chicago.

In 2014, George Lucas picked Chicago for a $1 billion privately funded museum for his legendary collection - Star Wars artifacts, Norman Rockwell paintings, etc. Zero taxpayer dollars.

A left-wing nonprofit (“Friends of the Parks”) sued, claiming a parking lot was sacred “public trust land.” After years of delays, Lucas said screw it and took the whole thing to LA.

Opening this September. It looks incredible.

Meanwhile, Chicago rammed through the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres of historic Jackson Park.
• Originally ~$300M → now $850M (nearly 3x over)
• Promised 2021 opening → now opening June 2026 (5 years late)
• Promised $470M endowment so taxpayers wouldn’t get stuck → only ~$1M deposited

One museum Chicago blocked.
One museum Chicago rammed through.

Chicago’s priorities on full display.

[Alexander Lacherbauer @lacherbauer]

@JATompkins A tragedy. https://t.co/PodwQ7uolU

[Collin Corbett @CollinCorbett]

Politics is the only thing holding up a Bears deal.

JB Pritzker can't be tied to anything that looks like it helps billionaire sports owners if he wants to run for President in a Democratic primary.

Darren Bailey and Republicans secretly want the Bears to go to Indiana so they can hang it around Pritzker's neck in the upcoming election.

Brandon Johnson would rather see the Bears go to Indiana than help the suburbs.

Chicago legislators want their palms greased before voting yes.

This is why we're building an Independent movement. Because in Illinois, common sense rarely prevails over politics. And everyday Illinoisans keep paying the price.

#twill

[Senator Cynthia Lummis @SenLummis]

America built the dollar-dominated financial system that has anchored global stability for a century. The Clarity Act ensures we build the next one. The time to act is now — before Beijing decides it will.

[Nic @nicrypto]

Jamie Dimon just told Congress he "will have nothing to do" with the CLARITY Act if it allows stablecoin issuers to pay yield.

"The banks will not accept it."

Meanwhile, JPMorgan recently filed for its own tokenised money market fund - designed to function as a yield-bearing reserve for stablecoin issuers.

The CEO of the world's largest bank is threatening to kill a bill that would allow the exact product his bank is trying to launch.

[Mark Jeffrey @markjeffrey]

Taxi is unhappy with Uber

[CWBChicago @CWBChicago]

Even the Pope's security is more chill than this guy's.

Nobody in Vatican City cares about Brandon Johnson — except Brandon Johnson.

[A.J. Manaseer @AJManaseer]

Brandon Johnson and Brandon Johnson alone owns this.

His repeated downplaying and excusing of these teen riots (which used to be twice or three times a summer but are now a weekly occurrence) has given them an implicit green light.

I can think of no leader in this entire nation and throughout history who is so personally and directly responsible for the mayhem we endure.

He sits atop the Hall of Shame for the worst urban leader in modern times. What a complete disaster and disgrace he is. He should resign in shame and be run out of town.

[Porter Stansberry @porterstansb]

On September 30th 1979, the former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Arthur Burns, gave a private talk ("The Anguish of Central Banking") to a gathering of the world's wealthiest bankers at a private gathering in Belgrade. This was kept secret from the American people for almost decade. If you read it, you'll see why.

Burns warned the world's wealthiest bankers that the entire global financial system would soon be reset. He explained the inevitable failure of the world's new, fiat currency global financial system, just two months before the world's bond markets began an 80%+ collapse.

Every American should understand this warning because it is happening again, right now.

Burns explained how the Western democracies had turned to debt, financed by inflation, to create the illusion of prosperity. But this prosperity wouldn't last because the inflationary bias would sap the "economic and moral vitality of the democracies."

Here are his three most important warnings. These are his words, not mine.

#1. "Since 1950, the federal budget has been in balance in only five years. Since 1970, a deficit has occurred in every year. Not only that, but the deficits have been mounting in size. Budget deficits have thus become a chronic condition of federal finance… But when the government runs a budget deficit, it pumps more money into the pocketbooks of people than it withdraws from their pocketbooks; the demand for goods and services therefore tends to increase all around. That is the way the inflation that has been raging since the mid-1960s first got started and later kept being nourished."

#2. "What had once been a quiet personal feeling that the future would be better than the past, particularly for one's children, was transformed during the postwar years into an articulate and widespread expectation of steady improvement in living standards — indeed, into a feeling of entitlement to annual increases in real income. But when government takes on the duty of underwriting that entitlement without the productivity to fund it, the only remaining lever is the currency itself.

#3. ""In view of the strong and widespread expectations of inflation that prevail at present, I have therefore reluctantly come to believe that fairly drastic therapy will be needed to turn inflationary psychology around."

Two months later, Paul Volcker starting raising interest rates and he didn't stop until they were 20%. Anyone who was holding bonds -- or virtually any financial asset -- took enormous losses. It was a global monetary reset.

That's how all of this will end. It isn't hard to understand.

Your parents probably weren't invited to that secret meeting in Europe. And you probably won't be invited this time, either. But those meetings are happening right now. That's why Trump is in China -- our biggest creditor.

Prepare prepare now.

https://t.co/7KQ3YGQ88M

[Joe Kernen @JoeSquawk]

Stop the presses

[A Man Of Memes @RickyDoggin]

ln 1992 Al Gore predicted that within two decades, Florida would lose 60% of its population due to climate change. Today, 34 years later, Florida’s population is 425% higher than it was in 1992.

[John Mattson @jvmatt3]

@NiccKingg @KobeissiLetter https://t.co/dzuBBRliM3

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

This is why I believe in Bitcoin.

If you only watch 9 minutes of my content, ever, please let it be this.

[The Wolf Of All Streets @scottmelker]

This is why I believe in Bitcoin.

If you only watch 9 minutes of my content, ever, please let it be this.

[Dave W @dmweisberger]

Can ANYONE demanding crypto ethics provisions on the White House exclusively, PLEASE explain why they don't support a BROAD Bill to cover insider dealing and family profits on ALL Asset classes that covers both the Executive and Legislative Branches?

Common sense would dictate that crypto, securities and prediction Markets should ALL be subject to the same rules

AND

The White House, its Agencies AND both Houses of Congress AND their permanent staff, should ALL be stopped from insider trading and industry profiteering.

[britty @mediocrebritty]

Chicago ppl, please be careful getting into Ubers while you’re out and make sure you turn on your code on the app so the driver can’t start the ride until they put it in. This is a way to KNOW that the car is for you.
A friend got in the wrong car outside of Mom’s Place in River North. The driver pulled out a gun, stole his phone and passcodes to everything, pretended to be him, asked friends for money, zelled money out of his account to friends for it to be apple cashed and cash apped back and out into a separate account. They tried dipping into his live savings as well, but luckily that didn’t go through. Thousands of dollars were stolen. They dropped my friend off all the way on the South Side with nothing.
It was very elaborate and believable at first, thinking our friend was in need.
This is an ongoing issue per the police and happening every day. People are truly evil.