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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#599: Trump’s Economic Reset Strategy with Mel Mattison

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Mel Mattison to discuss the Trump administrations attempt at a manufactured soft landing.


Mel on Twitter: https://x.com/MelMattison1Mel's website: https://www.melmattison.com/


0:00 - Intro

0:36 - Building homes won't fix real estate

3:34 - Effects of Trump admin on market

8:02 - Bitcoin breaking from NASDAQ

10:14 - Fold & Coinkite

11:52 - Bessent’s hot and cold strategy

18:18 - Playing hardball with Europe

23:24 - Unchained

24:24 - Middle East/Ukraine

33:49 - Remaking the monetary order

39:46 - Phasing out the Fed

47:05 - Sovereign wealth fund makeup

53:13 - Nixing income tax

1:03:03 - Allocation strategy



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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency,

0:24.4

Bitcoin wins.

0:25.3

In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.3

And Jason Calcanus was tweeting about this.

0:38.3

I was quote tweeting him last night about this idea that to fix the housing crisis, we just

0:43.5

need to build a million affordable homes to bring the prices down, flood the market with

0:51.2

more supply.

0:52.2

And I'm saying, commenting that the problem,

0:55.5

I don't think can be fixed by some sort of central planning of expansion of supply by one million homes.

1:02.1

The problem is that people are using real estate as a store value asset when it really should be a consumption good with some premiums that can exist due to location,

1:13.7

size, aesthetic, whatever it may be.

1:16.7

Yeah.

1:17.4

No, I think that's definitely the case.

1:19.2

I think homes and the S&P 500 are are essentially Ponzi's.

1:24.4

If you really break it down, like it's it's like okay if someone's going to pay more

1:29.1

for it's it's it's not based on the traditional valuation metrics anymore and it's this is this is a

1:36.4

big problem I have when I listen to you know people on like CNBC and it's like oh well they're always like trying to justify like some sort

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