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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is taking the macro world for a spin. It’s shaking up its yield curve control (YCC) policy, expanding its trading band for 10-year GDP yields from a range of 50 basis points to a much broader range of 100 basis points. This is a remarkable…

Summary The cyclical dance of boom and bust has long been choreographed by central banks, an orchestration tracing back to the close of the Volcker era. It is with a sense of prophetic inevitability that we entered into a new phase of this cycle – the bubble burst – last year. With the…

Executive Summary Central banks and regulators have fueled debt growth, leading to potential economic instability; Bitcoin offers a hedge against risks. Bitcoin’s predictive nature and self-custody capabilities make it an attractive investment for protection against lurking financial threats. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust provides a related, alternative investment option for traditional investors…

In a world where cryptocurrencies and digital assets are in turmoil, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is locked in an internal battle. It’s the Wild West of crypto, where disagreements within the Commission tear at the very fabric of regulation. The Coinbase blog post reveals the twisted plot…

Several analysts have pointed out that Tesla has a demand issue. However Musk downplayed the problems in the earnings call. The company is seeing strong demand for its products and has seen the highest orders year-to-date in its history. Orders are currently almost twice the rate of production. Despite a…

In my opinion, the crypto market and the stock market will behave differently in the coming economic recession. While the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy will have an impact on both markets, crypto will be highly sensitive to it, while stocks will be more affected by the economic cycle. The crypto…

(Photo credit: Ehud Neuhaus) I don’t think so. Why? Inflation has several causes, and different factors have different weights at different times. Production capacity, production utilization, energy costs, productivity, and monetary cycle play a big role. Some of these are interdependent, and sometimes they work reflexively. In some ways, the…

Summary Illumina and its short reading technology pushed the sequencing costs down during the last decade. Long reads and artificial intelligence are improving the sequencing and will likely keep driving the costs lower. Several companies are building business models around these technological improvements. The past decades brought us the foundational…

(Photo credit: BTC Keychain) The Gamestop debacle showed us a couple of things. First, intermediaries in our centralized financial system might have been cheating. The number of short positions in Gamestop suggests that funds and brokers have been practicing naked short-selling. Meaning that they haven’t been selling loaned shares, instead,…