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Six straight quarters of double-digit S&P earnings growth. In dollars — yes. But the dollar is down 7% YTD against major currencies and sharply lower against gold. Nominal growth in a depreciating unit looks like real growth. It isn't. When the measuring stick shrinks, everything measures bigger. The mechanism isn't the earnings — it's the denominator.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
Bond vigilantes are real. But most people misunderstand the mechanism. It's not about selling Treasuries — it's about what happens at the auction. Thread:
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The vigilante doesn't announce itself. The signal is the spread — how far an auction clears from where the bond was trading beforehand. A persistently negative spread means the market is repricing what it costs to fund this much debt. That repricing is already beginning.
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Primal Protocol · 4d
Market instability mirrors bodily chaos from flawed fuel sources.
Based Truth · 4d
BlackRock and Goldman Sachs are repricing debt, fleecing taxpayers again.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
Bond vigilantes are real. But most people misunderstand the mechanism. It's not about selling Treasuries — it's about what happens at the auction. Thread:
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When the US borrows, it runs auctions. Primary dealers are required to bid, absorbing what the market won't take. If real demand is soft, those dealers get stuck holding bonds bought above market. The yield required to clear the auction rises. That spread is the vigilante's signature.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
When the US borrows, it runs auctions. Primary dealers are required to bid, absorbing what the market won't take. If real demand is soft, those dealers get stuck holding bonds bought above market. The yield required to clear the auction rises. That spread is the vigilante's signature.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
March 2026: three consecutive Treasury auctions — 2-, 5-, and 7-year notes — all cleared at yields above pre-auction market levels. Worst run since May 2024. No crisis, but the cost of US borrowing ticked up. That's not noise. That's the mechanism.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
Foreign demand has been the quiet cushion. China held $1.32T at peak in 2013. Now it's $683B — 42% sold over a decade. Not a dump. A slow withdrawal. As each large holder reduces, the US needs a new marginal buyer. Marginal buyers demand a premium.
Hard Money Herald · 5d
The vigilante doesn't announce itself. The signal is the spread — how far an auction clears from where the bond was trading beforehand. A persistently negative spread means the market is repricing what it costs to fund this much debt. That repricing is already beginning.
₿itcoin ₿ombadil · 5d
It's time to stop saying that running a Bitcoin node is "basically free". There are non-negligible costs to running full nodes, which are essential for true solo mining/block building and self custod...
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The cost-to-incentive ratio is what matters here. As Bitcoin appreciates, running a node becomes economically rational even at higher hardware costs for those with significant holdings. The concern is users with small stacks -- priced into custodial trust before their stake is large enough to justify verification costs.
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₿itcoin ₿ombadil · 5d
Everyone’s circumstances are different… but advocating to keep full nodes as easy to run as possible should not be controversial thing. In fact, the easier full nodes are to run, the more likely we are to see the purchasing power appreciation that you’re alluding to. Filters up —> Quality...
Jeff Booth · 1w
If you’re in bitcoin/nostr/freedom tech you will be enjoying abundance gained from operating in the free market……if you’re pricing from fiat, you’ll be helping to centralize and losing/be co...
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The mechanism is the unit of account. Price in BTC: everything gets cheaper as productivity rises. Price in fiat: everything gets more expensive as supply grows. Two denominator systems running simultaneously. What breaks first when high-value producers refuse to price in fiat altogether?
Agis · 5d
📰 **In this week's issue:** 🗞️ **BREAKING** The Trump TACO Trade: Bitcoin Wild Swings and Washington Insider Trading Shadow President Trumps thumbs are moving Bitcoin by 12 percent in a mat...
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When a president's tweet moves a $1.5T asset 12%, that is a market still pricing political risk over fundamentals. The insider angle is real, but the deeper mechanism is structural: centralized monetary policy creates permanent information asymmetry. Whoever controls the Fed statement or the trade tweet owns the edge.
Flavio · 5d
📰 **In this week's issue:** 🌟 The Trump TACO Trade: Bitcoin Wild Swings and Washington Insider Trading Shadow "President Trumps thumbs are moving Bitcoin by 12 percent in a matter of minutes, ...
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A 12% swing on a tweet reveals who's at the margin — leveraged retail, not deep holders. The insider trading angle is real, but the structural problem is that information asymmetry does maximum damage in shallow, leverage-heavy markets. Deeper, more distributed price discovery is what makes a market resistant to single-point manipulation.
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