SMALL AXE
@the_SMALLAXE
INSANE: A Massachusetts couple is being charged with KIDNAPPING their own children. Yes, you read that right. Isael Rivera and Ruth Encarnacion are being treated like criminals after fleeing MA with their five kids to protect them from government overreach. It started when the…
The US President is about to install the US Treasury Sec as the Fed Chair, after repeatedly calling for negative real rates, and your selling your bitcoin for $0.12M US paper promises?
Crazy realization after selling a house. ROI on investment 2020-2025: USD Terms - Gained 54% Gold Terms - Lost 10% BTC Terms - Lost 79%
"The Cloud" has to be one of the best marketing/PR runs of all time. Maybe the GOAT. Hearing "its in the cloud" is mythical vs Hearing "its stored in a giant warehouse data center"
Stop measuring things in USD. It ruins the comparison. 1985: -median home price 258oz of gold -median salary 50.6 oz of gold 2025: -median home price 129oz of gold (half the cost) -median salary 18.7 oz of gold (down 63%)
Measured against something rapidly devaluing it is. Measured against gold?
Anyone who risks an asset returning on avg 45%/year to get an additional 2% deserves to get washed
Robinhood offering up to 2% deposit match paid instantly in cash if you deposit any crypto outside of USDC and keep it in the account for a year Hate moving my cold storage BTC but this feels like a must do?
Home prices are cheaper today (priced in gold) than they were in the early 2000's. So why are homes so unaffordable now? It ain't due to land constraints, I'll tell you that @BasedMikeLee
Guy with the worst breath in the office has to explain something over your shoulder. Just a nightmare start to the day. Moving on.
The World Bank receives $23.5 billion in donations from member countries annually, which it loans out at concessional rates with strict terms, effectively directing significant revenue towards specific companies and projects aligned with its developmental goals. The money…
The private sector is the engine of job creation—MSMEs represent 90% of businesses and 75% of jobs. Yet a $5.7T financing gap holds them back. @WorldBank Group, through @IFC_org and @MIGA, has mobilized resources to expand access to finance and growth. wrld.bg/6ZJb50Wf4N5
Government playbook: 1. Allow crises 2. Election to remove those who allowed crises to happen 3. Increase government spending/power/control in order to solve crises 4. Repeat
“Life was so easy, they forgot how to fly. But that was unimportant , because they were now so fat they couldn’t have gotten off the water even if they had tried.”
If this isn't a 'Silent Depression', then what is? 12/11/2001: China is admitted into the WTO, marking the peak of inflation-adjusted earnings for American workers Since then, Americans have faced an utterly relentless decline in their real wages @LukeGromen
The Fed creates money from nothing Banks (and Gov) get first dibs on this money at low rates Banks loan this money to you and charge you interest at 5-10% higher rates than they receive from the Fed You go into the world and work to earn money to pay the bank interest Banks…
Remember when they put everyone on house arrest because there was a virus going around? Forced away from sunlight and fresh air and into recycled air and blue light. Keep that in mind when you hear someone refer to the "experts".
