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How economic outcomes cause bitcoin outcomes

How economic outcomes cause bitcoin outcomes

Is a stock market rally positive for bitcoin? What about a housing market crash?

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Nik Bhatia
Jun 27, 2024
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As a bitcoin research firm, constant macroeconomic analysis is conducted because bitcoin represents a mirror for the legacy system. Why bitcoin goes up and down in the short term is driven by many idiosyncratic factors, including the direction of the stock market. But on a longer-term basis, we believe bitcoin increases in value due to the understanding that further money creation by governments and central banks is inevitable.

For this reason, every time we sense a money creation policy response, the whole case for bitcoin to occupy the portfolio theoretically increases. One might isolate our letter today on US residential real estate and think: 1) home prices decline, 2) the economy goes into recession, 3) stocks go down, and 4) bitcoin goes down. We, on the other hand, think something more like: 1) home prices decline, 2) Congress moves to shore up Fannie/Freddie, and the Fed becomes unable to exit the mortgage-backed securities market, 3) fiscal and monetary accommodation set the government on a path to higher deficits and the Fed to expand its balance sheet, and 4) investors around the world rush to bitcoin in response.

Individual economic outcomes each cause short-term market movements, as a change in conditions can affect yields and trickle into every asset class. They also affect the long-term path, and most notably in terms of problems in the financial system, boosting the global case for bitcoin as a non-banking, non-government instrument. In summary, there are many things that worry us about the economy, but most of them end up favorable for the digital asset with mathematically precise and energy-bound scarcity.


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Today’s topics

  • A theme of balancing economic outcomes with bitcoin outcomes will appear throughout today’s letter.

  • US residential housing is showing early signs of distress, a quiet brewing.

  • What exactly is on Jerome Powell’s mind? We can tell you.

  • Bitcoin experiences a frightening dip. We’ll show you the technicals.

  • Bond bubble bursters have shifted eyes to Japan, largely because the US Treasury market is trading quite well.

  • Japan devalues. My thoughts on China and the dollar broadly.

Jerome Powell and the TBL researchers: Redfin surfing

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