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- 0:07Speaker 1: Nvidia earnings came in last night pretty hot. We'll break
- 0:11Speaker 1: it down for you guys today and give you some
- 0:12Speaker 1: insights as to how and if this will have an
- 0:15Speaker 1: impact on the crypto markets.
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- 1:07Speaker 1: All right, I want to hit on a few points
- 1:09Speaker 1: here today and some of the things that were happening,
- 1:12Speaker 1: you know, last night, of course, with Nvidia coming out
- 1:16Speaker 1: very strong, even though I think you know now, Wall
- 1:19Speaker 1: Street is kind of in a position where their expectations
- 1:23Speaker 1: are just so high. It's kind of like a football team,
- 1:25Speaker 1: you know, one of the that's doing really well and
- 1:27Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they're just not playing well. That's kind
- 1:30Speaker 1: of what Nvidia look like. So if you look at
- 1:33Speaker 1: it any other company, this would have the stock would
- 1:36Speaker 1: have been flying off the I think, off the shelves.
- 1:39Speaker 1: But with this particular performance right now, which they just
- 1:43Speaker 1: posted their record Q two revenue of thirty billion and
- 1:47Speaker 1: exactly ten years ago, this is mind boggling to me.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Ten years ago they had a one point one billion
- 1:52Speaker 1: in quarterly revenue. They're thirty x ten years the quarter
- 1:55Speaker 1: over quarter there, which I think is pretty impressive. Compared
- 1:58Speaker 1: to one year ago, quarterly is up a whopping one
- 2:01Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two percent. Can you imagine any business
- 2:03Speaker 1: out there same quarter last year being up over one
- 2:06Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two percent. That would be a absolute
- 2:10Speaker 1: bar burning report for almost any corporation out there, this
- 2:13Speaker 1: of course a little bit different. Meanwhile, in Video announced
- 2:15Speaker 1: another fifty billion in a stock buyback program and expected
- 2:18Speaker 1: to be thirty two point five billion of revenue in
- 2:20Speaker 1: the current quarter. That'll continue to climb, but it will
- 2:23Speaker 1: be on track for producing well over one hundred billion
- 2:26Speaker 1: in annual revenue.
- 2:28Speaker 2: So all of this is good, it.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Is an absolute beast when it comes to the S
- 2:33Speaker 1: and P. How does this play out for the rest
- 2:36Speaker 1: of the markets. If you look at just the price
- 2:38Speaker 1: positions that many of the analysts are in Wall Street
- 2:41Speaker 1: are betting on. Morgan Stanley raised its target one fifty.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Bernstein raised the target to one fifty five from one thirty.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Wells Fargo raised Goldman Sack raise target to one thirty five.
- 2:55Speaker 1: The one that I thought was kind of interesting, which
- 2:57Speaker 1: was fairly bullish on in Video as Bank of America Securities,
- 3:01Speaker 1: who raise their talking to one sixty five. And if
- 3:03Speaker 1: you look at where this is trading right now, just quickly,
- 3:07Speaker 1: we're trading at about one twenty a dip. Of course yesterday,
- 3:10Speaker 1: I'm on the daily. Right now, if you go to
- 3:12Speaker 1: the four hour on this, you can kind of see
- 3:14Speaker 1: a little bit of moment here, but also dipping down
- 3:17Speaker 1: into this order block right here around one hundred bucks.
- 3:19Speaker 1: I don't know that we'll ever see that order block again,
- 3:21Speaker 1: but maybe we will. The key here is is that
- 3:25Speaker 1: in Nvidia continues to perform. It's continuing to give upward
- 3:29Speaker 1: guidance to a lot of the Wall Street analysts, and
- 3:32Speaker 1: I think it's also starting to carry a lot of
- 3:34Speaker 1: companies on Now there's many people out there that argue
- 3:38Speaker 1: that it in Vidia could be at the end of
- 3:39Speaker 1: its rope. Now we've got a few clips here that
- 3:41Speaker 1: I want to get into. This first clip is the
- 3:44Speaker 1: stock dropping even though the expectations were somewhat met.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Take a look.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Is there anything in the results or the guidance that
- 3:51Speaker 3: makes you rethink the pace of demand or the overall story.
- 3:56Speaker 4: It really doesn't. And you know, as you said, expectations
- 3:59Speaker 4: are high into the work. The magnitude of the beat
- 4:02Speaker 4: is a little bit less than what we've seen in
- 4:04Speaker 4: some quarters up it's about two and a half percent
- 4:07Speaker 4: over consensus for the guidance. But you know what was
- 4:10Speaker 4: clear is that that demand is still well ahead of supply.
- 4:13Speaker 4: Supply is still coming, and that's what's allowing revenue to grow.
- 4:17Speaker 4: Then you know, from there it's a question of you know,
- 4:21Speaker 4: when when does this kind of get to maturity. And
- 4:23Speaker 4: the way that we're approaching it is, listen, we look
- 4:25Speaker 4: at the data points, we keep taking a look, you know,
- 4:27Speaker 4: one year at of time product cycles and at least
- 4:29Speaker 4: for this product cycle coming up, you know, demand is
- 4:33Speaker 4: is not being fully fulfilled by supply, and supply is
- 4:36Speaker 4: coming on, so that's giving a room for numbers to
- 4:39Speaker 4: go higher, and then content's coming up. And it's one
- 4:42Speaker 4: of the things that is now changed in the world
- 4:44Speaker 4: to semiconductors is that pricing goes up every year now
- 4:47Speaker 4: because it's more expensive to make these chips and you
- 4:50Speaker 4: need more transistors to drive that performance. And as long
- 4:53Speaker 4: as that's happening, the stock is going to continue to work.
- 4:56Speaker 2: All right.
- 4:57Speaker 1: So, as you can see, there's announced that are very
- 4:59Speaker 1: pro in VideA, and this is important because of its
- 5:02Speaker 1: impact on the rest of the markets, not only the
- 5:04Speaker 1: S and P but also just liquidity. And then of
- 5:08Speaker 1: course you have all of the AI related crypto projects,
- 5:11Speaker 1: including cloud compute that we've talked about here before that
- 5:15Speaker 1: could have you know, kind of a spillover effect even
- 5:17Speaker 1: though we've seen a little bit of fall off on
- 5:19Speaker 1: some of those key assets. The key here is is
- 5:21Speaker 1: what is that long term play going out if Nvidia
- 5:25Speaker 1: is going to continue. This clip goes into the challenge
- 5:28Speaker 1: ahead for in Vidia.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Take a look the company is it deserves to be
- 5:34Speaker 3: in whatever hall of fame we have for the technology industry,
- 5:37Speaker 3: because you know, you talked about a company that's businesses
- 5:40Speaker 3: primarily hardware. They have a ton of software now, but
- 5:43Speaker 3: it's primarily hardware, and they've gotten themselves to seventy five
- 5:45Speaker 3: percent gross markets on the back of generative AI and
- 5:49Speaker 3: a whole bunch of other really important trends. Because right now,
- 5:52Speaker 3: the issue that in Vidia faces, which I think is
- 5:55Speaker 3: going to be the issue faced by everyone in generative AI,
- 5:59Speaker 3: is that the promise of AI has gotten way out
- 6:04Speaker 3: in front of the results. Somebody somewhere along the way
- 6:07Speaker 3: needs to ask the question of how long do we
- 6:09Speaker 3: wait for enterprise applications to show productivity and value to customers,
- 6:15Speaker 3: because at the moment, copilot seems to have some difficulties
- 6:19Speaker 3: in that regard. I think it's there's a big promise
- 6:23Speaker 3: at companies like Salesforce that they still have to deliver,
- 6:26Speaker 3: and there are a lot of questions, and from an
- 6:28Speaker 3: investor point of view, I think caution is increasingly going
- 6:32Speaker 3: to be the watchword here because it doesn't matter how
- 6:36Speaker 3: good the chips are at in video. If you're talking
- 6:40Speaker 3: about replacing a trillion dollars worth of cloud services compute
- 6:46Speaker 3: over the next few years, I mean the SP five hundred.
- 6:51Speaker 3: The companies are mostly run by finance people. I mean
- 6:53Speaker 3: the chances they're going to write off a trillion dollars
- 6:55Speaker 3: worth of capital investment just so they can buy in
- 6:58Speaker 3: Vidia's new chips, I think that's that may be wishful thinking, all.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Right, So there's a lot to unpack there. I'm kind
- 7:06Speaker 1: of in the middle of the two positions, and the
- 7:08Speaker 1: reason is pretty clear. Remember that any cycle of new technology,
- 7:13Speaker 1: there is the early learning curves. You know, he mentioned
- 7:17Speaker 1: Copilot and some of the things in the efforts the
- 7:19Speaker 1: salesforce is doing.
- 7:20Speaker 2: I don't necessarily even believe that.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Even the biggest companies out there are going to be
- 7:24Speaker 1: the ones that benefit the most out of this. I
- 7:26Speaker 1: think we're going to see a lot of these startups
- 7:28Speaker 1: that have already been growing in droves. Whether you see
- 7:32Speaker 1: that in open AI, perplexity claude. Any of the AI
- 7:36Speaker 1: tools that are basic consumer usable now today, the likelihoods
- 7:41Speaker 1: we'll see a ramp up in those services and most
- 7:43Speaker 1: likely we're going to see a huge move forward. Now
- 7:45Speaker 1: if you look at this article right here, same kind
- 7:47Speaker 1: of topic in video facing a looming test on the
- 7:50Speaker 1: use of the chips. One of the things that he
- 7:52Speaker 1: states in the articles key issue is when the main
- 7:55Speaker 1: focus in AI moves from training and a large foundation
- 7:59Speaker 1: models that under modern AI systems to putting those models
- 8:02Speaker 1: into widespread use and applications used by large numbers. I
- 8:06Speaker 1: don't know about you, but almost every platform, I mean
- 8:09Speaker 1: any platform that I use online today has started to
- 8:13Speaker 1: implement AI.
- 8:14Speaker 2: The likelihood is all of.
- 8:16Speaker 1: These companies, and there are thousands, if not tens of
- 8:19Speaker 1: thousands of these companies globally that are all implementing the
- 8:23Speaker 1: same kind of strategies of just improving their tech stack
- 8:26Speaker 1: just a little bit to increase ease of use. And
- 8:29Speaker 1: it's going to happen in every industry out there. So
- 8:33Speaker 1: my argument is that maybe this is just the beginning
- 8:36Speaker 1: for Nvidia. Sure, the big monsters in the Big five,
- 8:40Speaker 1: and you look at even the top one hundred tech
- 8:43Speaker 1: companies in the world. Maybe they aren't going to see
- 8:46Speaker 1: an immediate return, but I think that we're going to
- 8:48Speaker 1: see a much faster growth on AI because this is
- 8:51Speaker 1: only going to accelerate in terms of technology deployment. Now
- 8:55Speaker 1: you look at this statement right here, AI tokens have
- 8:58Speaker 1: started to dip. This of course is things like render
- 9:00Speaker 1: and near as in Vidia shatters earnings, but the expectations,
- 9:03Speaker 1: this was kind of a sell the news reaction. If
- 9:05Speaker 1: you're trading these tokens in a way that you're just
- 9:10Speaker 1: flipping in and out of them, that's a different angle.
- 9:13Speaker 1: But if you're looking at AI as a category to win,
- 9:17Speaker 1: then it's much like if you believe in web three,
- 9:19Speaker 1: or you look at deepen, or you look at meme coins,
- 9:22Speaker 1: whatever it might be. In the crypto side of things,
- 9:24Speaker 1: you do have to look at what is that long
- 9:26Speaker 1: term performance opportunity. Much like ethereum and Salana, you're looking
- 9:30Speaker 1: at a much more longer term opportunity. So I think
- 9:33Speaker 1: people were talking about Analysts noted that in Vidia's earnings,
- 9:36Speaker 1: while strong, did not meet investors' lofty expectations, which is
- 9:40Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous in my opinion, But it was leading
- 9:42Speaker 1: to a sell the news event, and of course that
- 9:44Speaker 1: gets into the scenario around some of the crypto projects.
- 9:48Speaker 1: But my opinion is that if we start to see
- 9:51Speaker 1: more of these dips, because we're not probably going to
- 9:52Speaker 1: see too many of these, it's very possible in video
- 9:55Speaker 1: could get a breakout quarter coming up very soon. Other
- 9:59Speaker 1: things I want to hit on right here is, of
- 10:01Speaker 1: course Bitcoin, how low could the price go? Many people
- 10:04Speaker 1: saying we could see a retest around fifty four k.
- 10:07Speaker 1: I'm still on the question mark of whether or not
- 10:10Speaker 1: we'll go that low. Recent correction from sixty five to
- 10:12Speaker 1: fifty eight further open the possibility of potential swipe of
- 10:17Speaker 1: the recent lows. I think we saw that happen when
- 10:19Speaker 1: it went down fifty eight early this week and people
- 10:22Speaker 1: were kind of thinking, maybe this is the win. But
- 10:24Speaker 1: of course it restructured, and of course we saw around
- 10:26Speaker 1: sixty thousand kind of recover itself. And a couple other
- 10:30Speaker 1: things right here. If bitcoorn regains positive around sixty one one,
- 10:33Speaker 1: this will be interesting because this will be a potentially
- 10:37Speaker 1: model for it could continue to establish a higher range
- 10:40Speaker 1: above sixty five. All of this is still sideways action.
- 10:44Speaker 1: All of this is also still action in the summer
- 10:48Speaker 1: September and October, our months where we start, we could
- 10:51Speaker 1: start to see some movements, especially leading into the election,
- 10:56Speaker 1: and I do believe we're going to see a little
- 10:57Speaker 1: bit of volatility going into the election, so be on
- 11:01Speaker 1: the lookout right now. Fear and greed setting at twenty nine,
- 11:05Speaker 1: so people definitely in the camp of more fear, even
- 11:09Speaker 1: though I feel like this is one of those scenarios
- 11:11Speaker 1: where we've seen this over time. If you look at
- 11:14Speaker 1: last month, we were at a sixty seven same time
- 11:17Speaker 1: last week, still fear yesterday and then now holding, so
- 11:20Speaker 1: it has been declining. I think people are maybe in
- 11:23Speaker 1: that position right now just because some of the things
- 11:25Speaker 1: that are happening from a macro standpoint. But I have
- 11:27Speaker 1: some good news for you there. Bitcoin unlikely to rally
- 11:30Speaker 1: before the US elections. This is data that is kind
- 11:33Speaker 1: of pushing in on a couple of points right here.
- 11:35Speaker 1: I want to focus on seasonality effects in all markets,
- 11:38Speaker 1: including bitcoin. Yes, twenty sixteen to twenty twenty, Bitcoin experienced
- 11:43Speaker 1: similar dips before the election, followed by a substantial post
- 11:46Speaker 1: election rally. There's a little bit of difference here, and
- 11:49Speaker 1: when I think from a political landscape, from a legislative landscape,
- 11:54Speaker 1: what's happening with the SEC right now, which we all know,
- 11:57Speaker 1: as well as the global pressure. That's the big one
- 12:00Speaker 1: to me is the global pressure both from the EU
- 12:03Speaker 1: and also from bricks. But a lot of people are
- 12:06Speaker 1: looking at an uncertain outcome of election. Elections typically create
- 12:09Speaker 1: a risk averse environment. Many experts caution that correlation does
- 12:13Speaker 1: not necessarily imply causation. So you look at two things
- 12:17Speaker 1: that could be going in here, and I want you
- 12:19Speaker 1: to We're going to have a video on this this
- 12:21Speaker 1: week where we're going to be talking with the Blockchain
- 12:23Speaker 1: Association about one of these big topics, and that is
- 12:27Speaker 1: the potential for possibly the GOP to win the Senate.
- 12:33Speaker 1: If they get over that fifty one mark in the Senate,
- 12:37Speaker 1: there is a good possibility where we could see a
- 12:39Speaker 1: lot of very regardless of who wins the presidency, but
- 12:43Speaker 1: we could see some very good advancement on blockchain projects,
- 12:46Speaker 1: including the fit bill, stable coin, as well as other things,
- 12:50Speaker 1: as long as we don't get into, you know, kind
- 12:52Speaker 1: of a fight with the president. If Kamala is to win,
- 12:56Speaker 1: we'll see and that would just be into a scenario
- 12:59Speaker 1: that we could be dealing with some veto scenarios.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Donald J.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Trump, of course, is putting out a very interesting video
- 13:06Speaker 1: called World Liberty FI. It's just a short on it,
- 13:09Speaker 1: and they're talking about kind of the democratization of finance
- 13:14Speaker 1: and what we've been able to find on this. We
- 13:16Speaker 1: reported on this a couple of weeks ago. But if
- 13:19Speaker 1: you look at some of the moves that and this
- 13:22Speaker 1: is not his project, but I guess it's his family's project,
- 13:26Speaker 1: more so his son's project. But Eric Trump is the
- 13:30Speaker 1: organization's executive vice president and the former president's son. He's
- 13:33Speaker 1: already revealed the plans for this World Liberty Financial project,
- 13:37Speaker 1: which we think is going to be a digital real
- 13:39Speaker 1: estate It's not totally sure, but possibly a real world
- 13:44Speaker 1: asset tokenization model which could allow users to lend and
- 13:47Speaker 1: borrow on the platform. That would be pretty significant. And
- 13:50Speaker 1: this could be one of those scenarios worlworal world assets
- 13:54Speaker 1: could get. Maybe this is the one that makes it
- 13:57Speaker 1: somewhat outside of the traditionals in terms of token is securities,
- 14:02Speaker 1: but getting into true assets like real estate. So I
- 14:07Speaker 1: don't know. We're going to watch this one really closely
- 14:09Speaker 1: see how it plays out. I mean, this also could
- 14:11Speaker 1: be interesting timing for Trump to kind of continue to
- 14:14Speaker 1: double down. Remember, with RFK joining the campaign, he's bringing
- 14:18Speaker 1: in another pro crypto candidate, which is only going to
- 14:22Speaker 1: help bolster his position.
- 14:23Speaker 2: There.
- 14:24Speaker 1: While all of that is happening, you've got Gary Gensler
- 14:27Speaker 1: is helping Donald Trump, or some people believe that it's
- 14:30Speaker 1: almost as if Gensler is actively trying to secure the
- 14:33Speaker 1: presidency for Donald Trump. Obviously, the point being is that
- 14:36Speaker 1: if you piss enough voters off, especially that in a
- 14:40Speaker 1: camp and in an administration who has been anti crypto
- 14:44Speaker 1: as much as the Biden Harris administration has, then yeah,
- 14:47Speaker 1: you're going to lose votes. And right now I think
- 14:49Speaker 1: we are in a position where any vote could sway
- 14:52Speaker 1: the election. So it is a big factor for the
- 14:56Speaker 1: SEC to be putting this kind of pressure on Opense,
- 14:59Speaker 1: which is thousands of projects, millions and millions of asset holders.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Here's Eleanor Tarrett. So Gary Gesler's regulation by informant crusade
- 15:08Speaker 1: against the crypto industry remains alive and well. In the
- 15:11Speaker 1: debt of summer, it looks like he's trying to get
- 15:12Speaker 1: them all in before November. So maybe he senses something
- 15:16Speaker 1: I don't know. Here, of course, was a statement that
- 15:19Speaker 1: I thought was interesting by Hester Pearce, one of the commissioners.
- 15:23Speaker 1: She says her partly and blame for how commission has
- 15:27Speaker 1: interpreted the HOWI tests when it comes to crypto. I
- 15:29Speaker 1: blame myself in part for that something I could have
- 15:32Speaker 1: done differently as helping with more legal clarity, and it's
- 15:36Speaker 1: a cautionary tarill for other regulars.
- 15:39Speaker 2: I mean, I get this at the time.
- 15:41Speaker 1: I mean I'm a little bit sideways with Hester Paris
- 15:44Speaker 1: right now, only in the sense that I mean, you're
- 15:47Speaker 1: a commissioner. Yeah, I know you're not a decision maker,
- 15:50Speaker 1: but you definitely are a contributor.
- 15:52Speaker 2: And then the ability to.
- 15:53Speaker 1: Be able to just come, you know, have that kind
- 15:55Speaker 1: of conversation with the rest of the commissioners on an
- 15:57Speaker 1: ongoing basis, I think you have to really drill down
- 15:59Speaker 1: on that. If you believe in digital assets, then you
- 16:03Speaker 1: have to kind of stand up for your position. Polymarket
- 16:07Speaker 1: is holding Trump still at about a fifty to forty eight.
- 16:11Speaker 1: Kamala has dropped slightly. I think this again is getting
- 16:14Speaker 1: back into some of her policies, everything from unrealized capital
- 16:18Speaker 1: gains tax, which is now going to be in the
- 16:20Speaker 1: policy for people I know, for I know everybody's going
- 16:24Speaker 1: to say we'll PAU. That's for people over one hundred million.
- 16:27Speaker 1: I want you to think about that for a second.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Over one hundred million is one thing. But if people
- 16:31Speaker 1: over one hundred million have means, and the means is
- 16:34Speaker 1: probably either exit, exit the companies, exit the assets. And
- 16:38Speaker 1: at once those are done, who do you think they're
- 16:42Speaker 1: coming for next? You know, because that's not just going
- 16:44Speaker 1: to stop there once they soak that group, They're coming
- 16:48Speaker 1: for the next groups down, which will be everybody probably
- 16:50Speaker 1: over a million, so that may and that includes a
- 16:53Speaker 1: home you might be living in right now.
- 16:55Speaker 2: Unrealized assets so just be thinking about that.
- 17:00Speaker 1: Now are on the way. But what does this mean
- 17:01Speaker 1: for stocks? We will see a quarter point in September.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Over the last seventy years, large cap and small cap
- 17:07Speaker 1: stocks were returned about a fifteen percent to twenty six
- 17:10Speaker 1: percent on the average. With a twelve month within the
- 17:12Speaker 1: first rate cut, we could see these small caps and
- 17:16Speaker 1: the large caps really start to see a number that
- 17:20Speaker 1: is going to be interesting. And there's two reasons why.
- 17:24Speaker 1: One is our GDP growth and if we can somehow
- 17:27Speaker 1: snake out of this situation with jobs, and I've got
- 17:30Speaker 1: a couple of things here that play into it. I
- 17:33Speaker 1: want to show you something though, with the recession occurred
- 17:36Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, that was the last real
- 17:38Speaker 1: one performance was significantly worse S and P and the
- 17:41Speaker 1: Russell we're falling like twenty four and sixteen after the twelve's.
- 17:45Speaker 1: That was a different scenario, I think than what we're
- 17:46Speaker 1: in now. It's not near as bad, but in one
- 17:50Speaker 1: the recession with small camps substantially outperformed and gain two.
- 17:55Speaker 1: I think that recession is actually much more similar. And
- 17:59Speaker 1: of course that was the top bomb recession. So if
- 18:02Speaker 1: the FED can avoid it, then history is probably going
- 18:05Speaker 1: to be pointing to the upside. If you look back
- 18:07Speaker 1: at the two thousand and one recession, so that may
- 18:10Speaker 1: be a factor playing into this. And then if you
- 18:13Speaker 1: look at the GDP, GDP beat estimates, so we're up
- 18:16Speaker 1: three percent in Q two versus a two point eight expected,
- 18:19Speaker 1: So that's a good thing because that means consumer spending
- 18:22Speaker 1: is stronger. But right now, yes, people are putting it
- 18:25Speaker 1: on credit cards. That's the big factor here. And there
- 18:28Speaker 1: are a couple things that kind of separate this, and
- 18:31Speaker 1: it's I think it's kind of a bad I'll explain
- 18:35Speaker 1: it in a second. It's kind of a bad situation
- 18:37Speaker 1: that it's putting Americans into. But if you're an investor
- 18:42Speaker 1: right now and you're watching our show, you're probably going
- 18:44Speaker 1: to be on the upside to this. But there are
- 18:46Speaker 1: some bad things that are happening. One is this right here.
- 18:50Speaker 1: Credit card debt is continuing to rise, and you know,
- 18:53Speaker 1: the big thing here is that it's starting to hit
- 18:57Speaker 1: the part of the economy that is much poorer. And
- 19:02Speaker 1: if you look at right now total credit card balances,
- 19:04Speaker 1: I wanted to focus in on that right here. Let
- 19:06Speaker 1: me zoom in on that rose almost six percent from
- 19:08Speaker 1: a year ago to one point one four trilling. Remember
- 19:11Speaker 1: not barely a month ago it had just clipped a trillion.
- 19:14Speaker 1: So we're already up another fourteen percent on the overall
- 19:18Speaker 1: death that's out there. And if you look at two
- 19:20Speaker 1: things on the GDP growth in the second quarter, stronger
- 19:24Speaker 1: domestic economy could be on track for a soft landing.
- 19:27Speaker 1: If that happens, we get a soft landing, and then
- 19:30Speaker 1: you have this going on right here, lower income American
- 19:33Speaker 1: households now are basically running out of money. So you've
- 19:35Speaker 1: got a lot of people who are going to be
- 19:40Speaker 1: pushed very hard. And I want you to think about
- 19:42Speaker 1: this from a political landscape, because if the Harris campaign
- 19:46Speaker 1: continues to press hard on taxes from the riche, it's
- 19:50Speaker 1: possible they may win that poor poorer vote and it's
- 19:55Speaker 1: very possible that they could push people into more crypto.
- 20:00Speaker 1: And I think where the real challenge is how many
- 20:03Speaker 1: crypto investors are there that are struggling with their household
- 20:08Speaker 1: because of FIAT and maybe are considering a crypto position
- 20:12Speaker 1: as a better strategy. And then you would be looking
- 20:14Speaker 1: at the Trump side of things. So this is going
- 20:17Speaker 1: to get very interesting because there's going to be a
- 20:19Speaker 1: lot of psychobabble.
- 20:19Speaker 2: I think that starts to play out here. As I said, if.
- 20:22Speaker 1: You guys are not part of the diamond circle, make
- 20:23Speaker 1: sure and jump in on that. Also, make sure to
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