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Bitcoin's Bull Case

Catching Up with the Present Day

Steady March Higher in Bitcoin and Equities

Turn Off the News

Super Strong Job Market

Incredibly Strong Economy

Doubters and Haters

How do Rates Play Into This?

The Rates Boogeyman

Equities Become Immune to 5% 10 Year

Inflationary Death Spiral Bond Vigilante

Cheap Energy

Energy Constraints Coming with AI

Deflationary Forces that AI Brings

TFTC Sponsor Break

AI's Impact on Profit Margins

Fiscal Understanding

The 10 Year Ain't What It Used To Be

What is Interest Expense?

De-Dollarization

Entitlements

The Policy of Issuing Short-End Debt

The US is the Largest Producer of Oil

The Makeup of the Labor Market

Potential Corrections

Very, Very Contrarian

Demographics are Destiny

Tax Cuts are a Good Thing

Juicing the Private Sector Balance Sheet

Too Many Great Things to Invest In

Bitcoin's Next Parabolic Move?

Energy Infrastructure Expanding at Pace

The Pace of AI

Still Need People to Move Physical Objects

This Has to Happen at the Right Speed

Overestimate Short Term, Underestimate Long Term

Deflationary Collapse

Clamping Down on the Border

Wealth Gap

How Do You Help Those People?

Society Needs to Pay the Price

Trade Schools

It Does Sort of Work Out That Way

Long Arch of Human History

Telecommunications in the 70s

The Secret Meeting That Changed the Global Economy

Different Demographic Destiny

Thinking Through a Bitcoin World

Dollar is a Transactional Mechanism

Doomerism and Fear Porn

Core Fiscal Technology Trends

Building Cool Stuff Instead of Going to War

Long-Term Trajectory Marches On

Echoes of the 1970s

Threatening as Tariffs Start to Expire

Autonomous Drones

Reach Out to Russia as Counterbalance

This Has Been Great

The Fed Not Cutting Might Be Helping

Economic Triggers

Buy Puts, If You Like

Marty sits down with Mel Mattison to discuss the bullish economic outlook driven by AI productivity gains, demographic shifts, and fiscal stimulus, covering Bitcoin's path to $150K, the sustainability of government debt, and why current market conditions differ fundamentally from the 1970s.
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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#629: Bitcoin's March to $150K by Year-End with Mel Mattison

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