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Bill’s Commentary:

“We will know the answer to this only after the smoke clears from the pending credit/currency crisis. I would ask the simple question; which one has stood the 5,000+ year test of time… and which one is an experiment in progress?”

Is True Value in Crypto or Gold?

With the Trump Administration headed down the road to higher inflation and the political chaos that results, it is worth asking why there are “only” $4 trillion in notional crypto tokens, this according to the Financial Times. The rise of bitcoin and other ethereal instruments evidences a strong desire on the part of many Americans to escape a sinking ship, but also confirms the love for creating new games to enable speculation. Are the crypto tokens really a way to avoid the demise of fiat dollars?

As we noted in a recent comment in The Institutional Risk Analyst, the best returns in crypto at present are found investing in the stocks of some of the enablers. The fact that these new companies may or may not be stable businesses long term does not matter in the speculative environment that currently governs Wall Street. We are particularly fascinated by the idea that a crypto firm can generate enough revenue to survive as a bank.

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