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16 Jan 2025

Donald Trump's new SEC to begin overhauling the agency's crypto policies "as early as next week" 👀

Source: Reuters

16 Jan 2025

Yesterday, the easing of US inflation fears sparked a huge surge higher in rate-cut expectations for 2025 (back up to 40bps from 28bps)...

Source: Bloomberg, zerohedge

16 Jan 2025

BREAKING: Google Trends interest about bitcoin are currently at their highest level since 2021.

Worldwide searches for the Bitcoin have doubled over the last several weeks. However, search interest is still below the December 2017 peak and spikes seen in 2019 and 2021. Since November 1st, Bitcoin prices have surged 42.5% and are trading near $100,000. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

16 Jan 2025

I love this one... It also explains why Americans are so successful.

They are not afraid of trying and failing. In Europe, failure is too often not accepted Source: Stock Talk

16 Jan 2025

And the Winner is…

Source: Michael A. Arouet

16 Jan 2025

SpaceX is estimated to be up 10x since COVID (private marks)

Source: The Long View @HayekAndKeynes on X

16 Jan 2025

The Bitcoin network has 610,929x more hashing computational power than the combined total of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.

Source: Documenting Bitcoin

16 Jan 2025

The German economy has shrunk for 2nd year in a row ahead of elections, driven by both cyclical & structural challenges

German GDP declined by 0.2% in 2024, following a 0.3% drop in 2023. This marks only 2nd time since 1950 that econ has contracted for 2 consecutive yrs. Germany's prospects for 2025 remain bleak. Bundesbank predicts growth of just 0.2% and warns that another contraction is even possible if US President-elect Trump follows through on his tariff threats. Source: HolgerZ, Bloomberg

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