Macro analyst Luke Gromen (FFTT) returns to Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell to explain why markets keep rising while Main Street struggles and why the “rules-based global order” is already over. We dig into:
- Whether the Fed will cut rates and the market reaction
- BRICS and the push toward gold settlement
- Is U.S. strategy to use stablecoins/Bitcoin to pay U.S. debt?
- Rare-earth mineral chokepoints and China’s leverage
- Fourth turning and political assassinations
- What it all means for Bitcoin, gold, bonds, and stocks
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