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"Jeremiah, a burning fire. We still have about two more messages in Judges, but that'll have to wait towards the end of October because the next two Sundays, and I'm just saying it now so don't forget at the end, Pastor Theron is going to begin a series on Amos, and so he'll be preaching the next two Sundays, and then I will finish out Judges, and then he will close out the Amos November series 5th when I'm in Nicaragua, but an opportunity to walk through that Old Testament book, and I'm looking forward to him preaching, for us getting to be able to sit under that for a whole series on the book of Amos, excited to learn what he has to share there. As I mentioned, Jeremiah and the idea of a burning fire, and just as we start out, I just want to make a statement that I think we all know, but God has not promised that we even will grasp exactly how what we do and experience functions and fulfills his great purpose. He hasn't promised that it's easy, and he hasn't promised that we will necessarily understand every component, but he has promised this, that what we do for him will be eternally fruitful and that he will make all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The idea that it's not always easy and that it doesn't always make sense, if you turn into the Old Testament and look at the prophets, one of the prophets that exemplifies that truth so well is Jeremiah. He's described by some as the post -Christian prophet, the one to preach to post -Christian times. He's a man who was the unwanted yet truthful voice of God in his era. He was called to preach repentance to an unresponsive people. He confronted ungodly kings, untruthful prophets, and unfaithful people. As he states in Jeremiah 2 13, in a very clear illustration, he says, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. He's constantly called to preach to a hard -hearted people for them to turn from this world's broken and false replica of a God to the only God who redeems the only God of life. It was a message largely unheeded by Judah, a message of judgment that saw fulfillment in Babylonian destruction and captivity, which was a reality that broke Jeremiah's heart. Irving Jensen says this, By divine design, it was Jeremiah who was called to prophesy in the darkest hours of Judah, when Judah as a nation died. He is known as the weeping prophet and the prophet of the broken heart, but he wept not for his own trials, grievous as they were. It was the sins of his nation and the fearful destruction these sins were bringing upon them that broke Jeremiah's heart. So as Francis Schaeffer notes, Jeremiah provides us with an extended study of an era like our own, where men have turned away from God and society has become post -Christian. And it's to this type of people, this ministry, that the divinely called Jeremiah struggled at times to understand and accept his role in giving God's message. He preached 50 plus years going through, I think, four different kings. He faced opposition and derision, and at times he wondered internally with why God has called him to this task. He wrestles with that thought continually throughout the book. But it is in those instances of distress that we get a window into the prophet's soul showing the deep personal price that he has to pay for his faith and his faithfulness. And it's to one of these that we're turning this morning, chapter 20 of Jeremiah, to see that battle and understand what it means to truly have a burning fire in your bones to proclaim God's truth, no matter the response or reality in which we live. My goal with this whole message, one, as we walked as a church in ordaining Pastor Theron to the gospel ministry is to be a call in his life that no matter what comes up that the Word of God is a burning fire, but it's also a call to us as a church to have a burning fire, a truly burning fire that we cannot but proclaim Christ no matter what we encounter in this world. So we encounter Jeremiah in the midst of one of his sermons or oracles preaching the destruction of Judah at the temple, and this is around 606 BC during the reign of King Jehoiakim. If you've ever read Jeremiah cover to cover and you're wondering if it's a chronological history, it is not. So it is based on these sermons and how they fit together and the message that God wants to bring. It's not always set in chronological order at all. So this is early on in Jeremiah, 1914 and 15. It says this. This is his message. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet with the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, by the way, he was a prophet and a priest. Thus say at the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I've pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. And he is a weeping prophet, a broken prophet. He's the prophet that had to preach to people who didn't want to hear what he was saying because they had other prophets saying, don't worry, we're going to be fine. It's not going to be a problem. We're going to get over this. We're going to prosper. We're going to be victorious. And he is almost a singular voice during this time saying, no, that's not what God said, that God has something else for us. Well, a man named Pasha, who is both a priest and the chief officer, here's Jeremiah speaking and he has Jeremiah whipped in scripture. It says he's beaten and really likely what Jeremiah received at that time were 40 lashes based on what Deuteronomy 25 three would allow. And so when you see that he got beat, it's not a whipping or two, but instead a formal punishment that took place. And then it says that pasture placed him in the stocks where his hands, feet and head were placed through holes, which contorted his body and caused extreme pain. Where is he placed in the stocks? It's not in prison, but it's at the gate. There's stocks at the gate. It's the Benjamin gate, upper Northern Benjamin gate because they wanted everyone to see what happens to someone that confronts them and speaks of God's judgment. Jeremiah is released the next day and instead of backing down, he renames pasture to Magor Miss Abib and you, you get extra chicken if you remember that at the end of the service, what his name was. But it means this terror on every side and, and what Jeremiah was saying was he was reiterating his message. He says, pasture, you're going to see your friends struck down on by the sword. You're going to witness people you know, hauled off to Babylon. He himself will be hauled off to Babylon after seeing the Babylonians take all the wealth of Judah and Jerusalem and that he would ultimately die there and be buried with the friends to whom he pasture had prophesied falsely. I want us to see as he's coming out of the pain and punishment, what he did yet those strong and bold words from Jeremiah were not all he was feeling or experiencing. The rest of the chapter deals with a cry to God saying that the mocking and the disrespect and the ridicule or are wearing on him. He preaches God word and it says he feels like it's become a reproach and the reason why people attack him. He wants to stop speaking God's word but realizes that he cannot stop speaking because that truthful message is in his heart and not speaking God's word creates a burning in his bones and what they're trying to say is there is such an intensity that you cannot stop a burning word that he must preach no matter how his world responds and so with that burning word in perspective, we take a moment to see and recognize what can waylay us from speaking it. For Theron, I kind of specifically kind of diving in for him on this. What can knock you off course? What are things that can come in and recognizing what they are from Jeremiah's circumstances and then seeing how they are overcome and so as we look at Jeremiah's circumstances, we must first recognize the potential pressure. Jeremiah 21 through six, it says, now, pasture, the son of emir, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then pasture smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord, and it came to pass on the morrow that pasture brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him and pastures thinking that Jeremiah is going to recant. He says, the Lord had not called by name pasture, but Maggore, Miss Abib. For thus say at the Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and then I shall behold it and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, which is the first time he names the oppressor that's coming in a specific way and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labors thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon and now pasture and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and now shall come to Babylon and there thou shalt die and shall be buried there. Thou and all thy friends to whom thou has prophesied lies. And if you think Jeremiah is a coward and I want you to make sure you get this image correct in your mind as we walk into where his, his struggle comes, you recognize that after being beat 40 times, put in stocks for 24 hours, that when you're released and the first thing you say is what I said is right and let me get very personal and let you know exactly what's going to happen to you. You recognize that this is not a coward or a weak man. What we see is that Jeremiah encountered significant pressure or pushback from the world of his day. They're not pleased with what he's saying. He's actually accused of being a traitor. They wanted to kill him for committing treason because he preached what God had said and Later on in his ministry, beyond this beating in the stocks later on, they're going to throw them in a pit that has water in it. It's sinking constantly to let them drown in a very slow way. The reality of God's truth though, is often those who need it and who we are striving to reach hate it, and that's something we have to accept as we bring truth that the world doesn't love truth, that the world is not enamored with truth. They're not sitting there saying, Oh, everything makes sense to me, but instead they will come after truth with some of the ugliest hate possible. They can resort to violence and physical attack. Many of us cannot fathom the idea or that reality. We don't see that in our world and in our, in our country, but we know that around the world fellow believers face physical attacks for believing and preaching God's word. I read the voice of the martyr and go through it and I'm just shocked by different sufferings that people walk through. I just read of one where they lock Christians up in sea containers in the middle of the desert and give them meager rations. You imagine how hot that gets in there and the suffering that is faced and yet those people remain faithful to the word. There is a potential for physical abuse. This world hates the message of truth that God has sent to it. Now, along with that physical abuse, one that we probably will encounter more quickly, we find psychological stress. Don't lose sight of where he was put in the stocks. He's in the north gate off of the court of the Lord. So at the temple, they have punishment designed to be public and they're taking a man who is both a priest and a prophet who's preached God's word, who knows that truth, and they've made a public example of him and they've set him up to be ridiculed. He's sitting there. Later on, Jeremiah will talk about the fact that he hears many whisperings. In this chapter alone, and we'll see it in the next segment, he talks about this idea that his closest friends have denounced him.
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"Jeremiah, a burning fire. We still have about two more messages in Judges, but that'll have to wait towards the end of October because the next two Sundays, and I'm just saying it now so don't forget at the end, Pastor Theron is going to begin a series on Amos, and so he'll be preaching the next two Sundays, and then I will finish out Judges, and then he will close out the Amos series November 5th when I'm in Nicaragua, but an opportunity to walk through that Old Testament book, and I'm looking forward to him preaching, for us getting to be able to sit under that for a whole series on the book of Amos, excited to learn what he has to share there. As I mentioned, Jeremiah and the idea of a burning fire, and just as we start out, I just want to make a statement that I think we all know, but God has not promised that we even will grasp exactly how what we do and experience functions and fulfills his great purpose. He hasn't promised that it's easy, and he hasn't promised that we will necessarily understand every component, but he has promised this, that what we do for him will be eternally fruitful and that he will make all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. The idea that it's not always easy and that it doesn't always make sense, if you turn into the Old Testament and look at the prophets, one of the prophets that exemplifies that truth so well is Jeremiah. He's described by some as the post-Christian prophet, the one to preach to post-Christian times. He's a man who was the unwanted yet truthful voice of God in his era. He was called to preach repentance to an unresponsive people. He confronted ungodly kings, untruthful prophets, and unfaithful people. As he states in Jeremiah 2 13, in a very clear illustration, he says, For my people have committed two evils. They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water. He's constantly called to preach to a hard-hearted people for them to turn from this world's broken and false replica of a God to the only God who redeems the only God of life. It was a message largely unheeded by Judah, a message of judgment that saw fulfillment in Babylonian destruction and captivity, which was a reality that broke Jeremiah's heart. Irving Jensen says this, By divine design, it was Jeremiah who was called to prophesy in the darkest hours of Judah, when Judah as a nation died. He is known as the weeping prophet and the prophet of the broken heart, but he wept not for his own trials, grievous as they were. It was the sins of his nation and the fearful destruction these sins were bringing upon them that broke Jeremiah's heart. So as Francis Schaeffer notes, Jeremiah provides us with an extended study of an era like our own, where men have turned away from God and society has become post-Christian. And it's to this type of people, this ministry, that the divinely called Jeremiah struggled at times to understand and accept his role in giving God's message. He preached 50 plus years going through, I think, four different kings. He faced opposition and derision, and at times he wondered internally with why God has called him to this task. He wrestles with that thought continually throughout the book. But it is in those instances of distress that we get a window into the prophet's soul showing the deep personal price that he has to pay for his faith and his faithfulness. And it's to one of these that we're turning this morning, chapter 20 of Jeremiah, to see that battle and understand what it means to truly have a burning fire in your bones to proclaim God's truth, no matter the response or reality in which we live. My goal with this whole message, one, as we walked as a church in ordaining Pastor Theron to the gospel ministry is to be a call in his life that no matter what comes up that the Word of God is a burning fire, but it's also a call to us as a church to have a burning fire, a truly burning fire that we cannot but proclaim Christ no matter what we encounter in this world. So we encounter Jeremiah in the midst of one of his sermons or oracles preaching the destruction of Judah at the temple, and this is around 606 BC during the reign of King Jehoiakim. If you've ever read Jeremiah cover to cover and you're wondering if it's a chronological history, it is not. So it is based on these sermons and how they fit together and the message that God wants to bring. It's not always set in chronological order at all. So this is early on in Jeremiah, 1914 and 15. It says this. This is his message. Then came Jeremiah from Tophet with the Lord had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the Lord's house and said to all the people, by the way, he was a prophet and a priest. Thus say at the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns, all the evil that I've pronounced against it because they have hardened their necks that they might not hear my words. And he is a weeping prophet, a broken prophet. He's the prophet that had to preach to people who didn't want to hear what he was saying because they had other prophets saying, don't worry, we're going to be fine. It's not going to be a problem. We're going to get over this. We're going to prosper. We're going to be victorious. And he is almost a singular voice during this time saying, no, that's not what God said, that God has something else for us. Well, a man named Pasha, who is both a priest and the chief officer, here's Jeremiah speaking and he has Jeremiah whipped in scripture. It says he's beaten and really likely what Jeremiah received at that time were 40 lashes based on what Deuteronomy 25 three would allow. And so when you see that he got beat, it's not a whipping or two, but instead a formal punishment that took place. And then it says that pasture placed him in the stocks where his hands, feet and head were placed through holes, which contorted his body and caused extreme pain. Where is he placed in the stocks? It's not in prison, but it's at the gate. There's stocks at the gate. It's the Benjamin gate, upper Northern Benjamin gate because they wanted everyone to see what happens to someone that confronts them and speaks of God's judgment. Jeremiah is released the next day and instead of backing down, he renames pasture to Magor Miss Abib and you, you get extra chicken if you remember that at the end of the service, what his name was. But it means this terror on every side and, and what Jeremiah was saying was he was reiterating his message. He says, pasture, you're going to see your friends struck down on by the sword. You're going to witness people you know, hauled off to Babylon. He himself will be hauled off to Babylon after seeing the Babylonians take all the wealth of Judah and Jerusalem and that he would ultimately die there and be buried with the friends to whom he pasture had prophesied falsely. I want us to see as he's coming out of the pain and punishment, what he did yet those strong and bold words from Jeremiah were not all he was feeling or experiencing. The rest of the chapter deals with a cry to God saying that the mocking and the disrespect and the ridicule or are wearing on him. He preaches God word and it says he feels like it's become a reproach and the reason why people attack him. He wants to stop speaking God's word but realizes that he cannot stop speaking because that truthful message is in his heart and not speaking God's word creates a burning in his bones and what they're trying to say is there is such an intensity that you cannot stop a burning word that he must preach no matter how his world responds and so with that burning word in perspective, we take a moment to see and recognize what can waylay us from speaking it. For Theron, I kind of specifically kind of diving in for him on this. What can knock you off course? What are things that can come in and recognizing what they are from Jeremiah's circumstances and then seeing how they are overcome and so as we look at Jeremiah's circumstances, we must first recognize the potential pressure. Jeremiah 21 through six, it says, now, pasture, the son of emir, the priest who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then pasture smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord, and it came to pass on the morrow that pasture brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him and pastures thinking that Jeremiah is going to recant. He says, the Lord had not called by name pasture, but Maggore, Miss Abib. For thus say at the Lord, behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies and then I shall behold it and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, which is the first time he names the oppressor that's coming in a specific way and he shall carry them captive into Babylon and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city and all the labors thereof and all the precious things thereof and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them and take them and carry them to Babylon and now pasture and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity and now shall come to Babylon and there thou shalt die and shall be buried there. Thou and all thy friends to whom thou has prophesied lies. And if you think Jeremiah is a coward and I want you to make sure you get this image correct in your mind as we walk into where his, his struggle comes, you recognize that after being beat 40 times, put in stocks for 24 hours, that when you're released and the first thing you say is what I said is right and let me get very personal and let you know exactly what's going to happen to you. You recognize that this is not a coward or a weak man. What we see is that Jeremiah encountered significant pressure or pushback from the world of his day. They're not pleased with what he's saying. He's actually accused of being a traitor. They wanted to kill him for committing treason because he preached what God had said and Later on in his ministry, beyond this beating in the stocks later on, they're going to throw them in a pit that has water in it. It's sinking constantly to let them drown in a very slow way. The reality of God's truth though, is often those who need it and who we are striving to reach hate it, and that's something we have to accept as we bring truth that the world doesn't love truth, that the world is not enamored with truth. They're not sitting there saying, Oh, everything makes sense to me, but instead they will come after truth with some of the ugliest hate possible. They can resort to violence and physical attack. Many of us cannot fathom the idea or that reality. We don't see that in our world and in our, in our country, but we know that around the world fellow believers face physical attacks for believing and preaching God's word. I read the voice of the martyr and go through it and I'm just shocked by different sufferings that people walk through. I just read of one where they lock Christians up in sea containers in the middle of the desert and give them meager rations. You imagine how hot that gets in there and the suffering that is faced and yet those people remain faithful to the word. There is a potential for physical abuse. This world hates the message of truth that God has sent to it. Now, along with that physical abuse, one that we probably will encounter more quickly, we find psychological stress. Don't lose sight of where he was put in the stocks. He's in the north gate off of the court of the Lord. So at the temple, they have punishment designed to be public and they're taking a man who is both a priest and a prophet who's preached God's word, who knows that truth, and they've made a public example of him and they've set him up to be ridiculed. He's sitting there. Later on, Jeremiah will talk about the fact that he hears many whisperings. In this chapter alone, and we'll see it in the next segment, he talks about this idea that his closest friends have denounced him.
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When you do that, it helps us reach more people and impact more lives with this message. Thank you for doing that. Thank you for being a part of our community and let's go into the show. Well, Jason, always great to connect. And I know we've talked in the past and I had mentioned how much I really enjoyed your book. I mean, I talked about it in the intro, but I love this book, Beyond Longevity, phenomenal book and anybody that's interested in aging and longevity. This is the go to books, really the best book that I've read on that topic. And so just really appreciate your wealth of knowledge and really appreciate your overall perspective on this. And I'm excited to really, really dive into some of these topics that you discussed in the book and really starting with this idea of what is longevity, right? Because that's kind of something that most people think they know, right? But it's a little deeper than what most people really understand. Yeah, well, I appreciate that. The kind where it's really from all the work that you do, it means a lot. So thank you for that. And yeah, it's interesting. We're in such an interesting time when it comes to longevity because we have this new medicine that's coming online with stem cells and biologics, which is essentially dipping back into our own innate intelligence. So that's an interesting thing to explore. And then we have the other side of the coin, which is all this technology, which is interesting and also potentially dangerous and very kind of weird in another way. We can go down some really dark rabbit holes in that realm, and we kind of are in some ways. So we're at a very interesting nexus. I think how we think about aging and how we think about longevity is really, really important. There's historical context for aging and for longevity and for life itself as a cycle. So it's really important to, I think, really explore these things from a foundational principle. Because if we lose that, then we're going to start veering off into these random territories that are going to get us in trouble. And so for me, when I wrote the book, it's like longevity is an important thing. We want elders. We want really experienced people to guide our younger generations. There's a lot of benefits to increasing longevity on the planet. But then it's like, what is longevity? What is aging? How do we think about aging? It's a very deep topic. And I interviewed you for my film series, The Human Longevity Project. And I remember we interviewed 80, 90 health experts. You were one of them. And I asked this question to many of them, I said, what is aging? And not a single person gave me the same answer. And these are very, very intelligent people who do a lot of work in a lot of different realms in the health sciences. And so that's interesting. It's interesting the fact that we don't have a definition of biological aging. So I actually had to sit and think about that for what that is. And it's really a process. So a lot of the times when we're thinking about aging and anti -aging and longevity, what most people are actually talking about are the effects of, quote unquote, aging, the damage that accumulates over time as a result of aging. We still don't really know what aging is, what causes this process in an organism, be it salamander, a a whale, a tiger, or a human, right? But it's an innate process. So it's built into all these organisms, right? And so there's interesting things when it comes to aging itself. And so without going too deep into that rabbit hole, because we can get lost in that, it's important to recognize that damage is one thing, and aging is another thing. And I think we can slow the rate of aging. In fact, I'm quite confident we can do that. I'm not so confident that we can stop aging altogether. And I'm absolutely convinced that we can't anti -age, right? We can't go backwards. Now, look, we use these terms colloquially, right? You probably use it, I use it, right? And it's okay. But I think what I want to affect here is that the term anti -aging is really damage reversal, right? The ability to sort of turn back the clock from a damage perspective on a cellular level or an organ level. So in a sense, it's like anti -aging, but really, it's just cleaning up some damage. And we're utilizing the repair mechanisms that are built within us. But that's the important distinction is, yes, we can turn on repair. Yes, we can clean up damage. And no, we can't undo whatever aging is and whatever is actually guiding that process. Again, we don't know. Whatever is doing that, I'm confident that we sure as heck can't figure out how to undo that yet. Like that would be like Benjamin Button style, like going backwards and we start getting younger and, you know, in 10 years, I'm now 20 again. Like that is just not going to happen, right? So just want to like lay that framework down because I think it's really important as we have these discussions about longevity, what it is we're really talking about. And I think it is slowing the rate at which one ages and or cleaning up damage that has already accumulated. And we can do that to an extent because we have the mechanisms built within our biology. We have that magic within us. That's what's cool. Yeah, that's really good. I mean, we know that damage is going to happen. It happens to all of us. In fact, actually, it's to some degree, it's necessary. You know, it's a hormetic stressor that creates adaptation and creates a level of resilience with our body. So we know the damage is going to occur. We can't get around that. So then, you know, the other factor is how well we respond and recover. So I've heard the term, you know, healthy aging is really successful adaptations to the stressors that we're under and how successfully we're adapting. Absolutely. And it's a balance, right? Like if we lose this ability to destroy cells to, in other words, create death on a micro level, then we have cancer, right? So so we actually want cells to die. We need cells to die. We need mitochondrion to die, right? And that's a really critical aspect. In fact, there's a lot of longevity researchers that are in the mitochondrial sciences that are in the cancer sciences that are looking at these sort of rates of how much apoptosis do we want? How much autophagy do we want, right? If we have too much of something, it's bad. If we have too much of another thing, it's also bad. So there's a there's a dynamic balance that is always occurring inside the body. And this becomes the art form, if you will, of how do we do this throughout our lives, knowing that this is going to happen. We want it to happen. We want to actually encourage it to happen. And a lot of the things that we look at in the health world, right, when it comes to, again, exercise, sunlight, fasting, certain foods, these are all hormetic stressors, right? In other words, they are damage causing. They are they're innately creating a pressure on the system, right? Some sort of selective pressure, adaptive pressure that the that our organism has the amazing ability to both sense and then and then adapt and modify in order to meet that stressor, right? So that's what's really, really amazing about our human organism. And yet we push it too hard. Then it gets out of this hormetic zone and it gets into the straight damage, right? And yet again, just like if I were, well, actually, it was at the gym a few months ago and sliced my finger up and had to go get stitches and all that, right? And it was like, it looked like it went through a meat grinder. I mean, the nail was hanging off and I'm like, Oh my God. And yet the doc comes in there, throws in like four stitches through the nail bed and all this, but my finger miraculously heals, right? And right now there's a lot of scar tissue in there. So there's, there's some reorganization of the tissue itself, but over time, it's going to go back to a normal finger, like pretty much all the way, right? Like that's remarkable. So we have this intelligence within us. So no matter how much damage we cause, we can almost recover from anything. Like that's, what's really remarkable. And the younger that we are, because there's something important about youth itself, right? The amount of STEM cells we have, the, the, all the growth factors, all the magic that is within a young life form, there's vitality in there. Um, that does wane over time, right? That guy is part of the aging process, but when we sort of make mistakes early in life, we can still come back from them, right? So this is really remarkable. And that's, what's worth acknowledging here is that there's, it's really important to remember that there's an innate intelligence. There's a built in magic to us, right? And to honor that, to respect it and not sort of try to play God in every turn, because it gets us into trouble, right? To really trust the inbuilt humanity is really, really important in this process.
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"Letitia James of inflating his net worth in order to get more favorable loans from banks. The former president maintains he did nothing wrong as he headed into the courtroom this morning. And students at Seattle's Garfield High School sheltered in place this afternoon after gunshots rang out damaging property. One person reportedly suffered minor injuries. Police believe the suspects might have fled in vehicles. The family of U .S. swimming star Jamie Cale who died in March in the U .S. Virgin Islands is demanding answers about her death. Jamie was getting ready to leave the island on March 14th. She was coming home. It makes no sense. All the evidence out there has been completely overlooked. What we are looking for is justice for Jamie. We're looking for truth. Pat and Gary Cale claim island authorities haven't been forthcoming with details into their daughter Jamie's Limiting death access to information and withholding an official copy of the autopsy. We had somebody that we authorized to go to the funeral and home to view and that's all they would allow us to and see she photographed the face so we don't know if there's anything else on the rest of the body because we don't have the autopsy report. The family sharing those photos with ABC News. She had a black eye her forehead appeared to have had trauma blunt to the forehead it appeared that her nose had been broken her lips had blood around Kale them. was a high school champion swimmer from Maine winning a gold medal in the 1997 Pan Pacific Championship 800 free relay. She then notched silver at the 1998 swimming World Cup in Brazil. She lived in the US Virgin Islands for nearly two decades. The 42 year old was found unresponsive in her home by her boyfriend back in February. According to the original police release released Kale's boyfriend with the help of a friend then took Kale to a nearby clinic where CPR was surrendered but Kale succumbed to her ailment. But months later authorities saying she died of an accidental fentanyl overdose. Her family insists Jamie didn't use drugs. Never. Jamie Kale never did drugs. Never. There's no way That she had fentanyl in her voluntarily. So her family believes critical evidence like those facial injuries are being overlooked we reached out to officials to ask about the investigation and those unexplained injuries we haven't heard back. That's ABC's Janae Norman reporting. The Mexican drug cartel is reportedly prohibiting the sale and production of fentanyl in Mexico. ABC's Alex Stone has details. Banners began appearing in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa on Monday signed by faction a of the Sinaloa cartel run by the sons of the infamous drug lord Joaquin El Chapo Guzman. judge who says the cartel is now prohibiting the sale and production of fentanyl. The you banners have been saying warned. Fentanyl has become a top priority in talks between the US and Mexico because of thousands of overdose deaths. The DEA is offering a 10 million dollar reward for the capture of El Chapo's weapons. Alex Stone, ABC News. In Jerusalem's Old City, Christians were harassed during an annual procession for a Jewish holiday. ABC's Jordana Miller has more from Jerusalem. Israeli police arresting five Orthodox Jews suspected of spitting on Christian worshipers here in Jerusalem's Old City. The incident during a procession was caught on camera outraging Christian leaders all the way to the Vatican. The Pope quote furious according to a Jerusalem spokesman for the Catholic churches. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemning quote conduct, derogatory calling it unacceptable. Police opening an investigation into what locals say is long a -standing problem that is rarely reported. Jordana Miller, ABC News, time to 50 and money updates thanks in part to an August cyber attack that slowed production. Sales and profits at Clorox likely took a big hit in the just ended quarter. The cleaning products giant said after today's close that it now expects to report a per share loss of as much as 75 cents and a net sales officials drop of up to 28%. In response to that forecast, Clorox shares are sliding two and a percent quarter in after hours trading. In the regular Wednesday session technology shares led stocks higher. The S &P 500 rose 34 points. The Dow industrials recouped 127 and the Nasdaq composite jumped 176 or one and a third percent. That's your money now and catch your money news here at 20 and 50 past every hour traffic and weather straight ahead. Manta factor here for fast water heater. Western Washington's water heater experts. Fast water heater has installed more water heaters than anyone else in the Pacific Northwest. They're professional dependable and
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A highlight from Make 1 ETH In JUST 1 Hour! How I Did It!
"So we're dealing with the red day the hangover from last night's FOMC meeting It's like a delayed reaction to what Jerome Powell said last night We're gonna have to talk about what Jerome Powell said because at the time when he was speaking Nothing happened to markets But afterwards what we realized is exactly this we realized that what Jerome Powell did last night was he may have actually broken the market What is it that he said that actually scared people and why is it that right now if we look at Bitcoin? Here we are. We are at twenty six thousand five hundred and forty. You remember before FOMC last night. We were at twenty seven thousand four hundred We thought we were gonna get a pump We also touched the top of the Bollinger Bands and now we're gonna come down if we start coming down again to the bottom of the Bollinger Bands we could go back down to Twenty five thousand one hundred and fifty five. So what did he do? What did Powell say? What did Powell do that has set off this reaction that has set off the Dixie look at the Dixie The Dixie is now had one two, three, four, five six, seven eight nine We are in the tenth green weekly candle for the Dixie and to make matters actually even worse if you go into the daily the Dixie has just had a golden cross now You know what a golden cross is the golden cross is the opposite of the death cross When you have a death cross usually prices continue to go down when you have the golden cross That's when prices usually go up and I'll take you to the last time that we had this golden cross Look what happened to the Dixie. So what did Powell do? Why is the market responding the way the markets responding we need to talk about that I'm also going to show you something now and then I'm going to tell you that I'm going to tell you why I'm showing it To you so first of all I want you to watch this because this is probably the most important clip that you will see today Channel where we critique attack and under. Hello there you awakening wonders now This isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique attack and undermine the news in all its corruption Because in this story, I am the news I've received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email one from a mainstream media TV company one from a newspaper listing a litany of Extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuffs like my community festival should be stopped that I shouldn't So that's right That's Russell brand and that's the beginning of something that he said and we're gonna talk about it And I know you don't know it now But I'm gonna show you why that is the only Reason in the world that you need to go out and actually buy a Bitcoin today It's the most important nature actually gonna do I'm gonna link it back to the Russell brand story. That's gonna be Saying that we must talk about today This is a story that that cut me deep and we have to spend some time talking about Russell brand Getting potentially cancelled and why that means that you and I need to buy Bitcoin absolutely immediately Then I'm going to show you a brilliant brilliant brilliant trading to the training tool that's gonna change your life I'm gonna show you how I made one East in less than one hour and you can make one East in less than one hour Too I want to talk about a new blockchain the blockchain is that blockchain over there, which is a combination of Solana Cosmo Celestia and Bullrun or be a catalyst for the next bull run then lastly if you want a hundred bucks for free what you need to do is stay tuned until the end of the show and So to get the show going I want to thank the community who sent this to us Bull runs coming back bull runs coming back bull runs coming back bull runs coming back Bull runs coming back bull runs coming back I need crypto banter Give me crypto banter I need crypto answers Hey Hey Go Stack it up on my nose I'm getting obese from this East I've been buying more Sip coffee bean on my screens The crypto show I'm a bull under gold I'm turning these bears into ghosts Snap at school That's the crash course Crypto man runs in a fast Porsche So much news and research I'm just glad for it Spewing all this alpha we go mad for it Crypto banter I need crypto banter Give me crypto banter I need crypto answers You like it? Let me know in the comments if you like it I'd make it Obviously community members sent it to us Thank you thank you thank you If you were the people that sent it to us We will give you guys a thing I mean initially I didn't like it But then the whole day I was like Crypto banter baby Crypto answers Someone says this song is terrible Yeah well you let me know what you think Listen first of all I want to apologize to you guys I want to apologize On behalf of Jerome Powell For giving us the most boring FOMC Meeting of our lives I feel that we all wasted about two hours Of our time last night In fact the most exciting Part of the whole event last night Was watching the Subscriber count on our new channel So this is our new channel Called Crypto Banter Plus If you're not already subscribed to Crypto Banter Plus Go and subscribe to Crypto Banter Plus Because we're gonna have a whole lot of Trading videos here Annie's trading videos My trading videos Sheldon's trading videos And a whole lot more content here And as you subscribe What you'll see Is that we've made this little counter To see how everybody subscribes How do you subscribe? There's a link below It's a top link Click on that link Go to the channel Subscribe to the channel You're gonna miss out Because yesterday The FOMC that we did We actually watched it here On Crypto Banter Plus So this is where a lot more content Is gonna happen On Crypto Banter Plus So be there Join us This is where a lot of stuff Is actually gonna happen And the most exciting thing about last night Was actually just watching the subscriber count It was the only thing that was going up and down Anyway be there as it may Today unfortunately Things aren't so good We are dealing with a delayed reaction A hangover There we go See you guys are subscribing We are dealing with a hangover We're dealing with a delayed reaction From what Powell did Or what Powell said last night And we need to understand Why the market reacted The way that it reacted And that's what we're gonna be doing today We're also gonna be talking about Russell Brand And how Russell Brand is actually getting cancelled And the lengths that governments are going to To cancel him Why are they trying to cancel him And why is that a reason Why you and I need to buy Bitcoin immediately So listen If you're not already a subscriber to this channel Subscribe to this channel If you're not a subscriber to Banta Plus Go and subscribe to Banta Plus I see you guys subscribing to Banta Plus Thank you, thank you, thank you Let's get this show on the road We've got a lot to talk about today As we stand today We're still positive For the month of September Remember I said we're gonna be positive For the month of September We are still 3 % up Even though It's not looking good out there It's not looking good 26 ,570 Bubbles Are absolutely, absolutely red If Benjamin Cowen is right He says Get this Let's change the scene here Let's make it look more elegant How cool is that So in 2019 After the first 20 days of September Bitcoin was up 6 % But by the end of the month Bitcoin was down almost 14 % From its monthly open In 2023 After 20 days Bitcoin is up 5 % Wake me up When September You know what I mean Wake me up in September And so Question is Are we gonna follow this pattern Or are we gonna follow the pattern That I said Where we continue to go up I do have one little bit of good news For you guys Before we start talking about the FOMC The one little bit of good news That I have for you Is that the Mt.
The Bill Simmons Podcast
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We're gonna bring in our guy, Sean Fennesey, diehard Jets fan to walk through his emotions the last 12 hours. And then last but not least, Nick Khan, who was running WWE, but today they merged with UFC. And we're gonna talk about that merger, what it means, what it means for the business, what's Vince McMahon's role in the whole thing. And then we're gonna talk a lot of sports media stuff as well. ESPN versus Charter, what the NBA rights are gonna be. So this is an action -packed podcast. Dare I say it's a TKO for you, the listener. Let's bring in Pearl Jam. All right, we're taping this on Tuesday morning, we got the words that Aaron Rodgers, out for the year, torn Achilles, Sean Fennesey, who I've worked with for 11 plus years at this point, diehard Jets Mets fan, Knicks, been a rough ride, rocky road. After Rodgers went down five minutes into the game, you just tweeted goodbye and it didn't respond to texts. We didn't know. I was saying it was like, Marcuson's gone. There is no Marcuson. It's like, Sean's gone. There is no Sean. How are we feeling today? Thanks for having me on the show, Bill. Really kind of you to have me on. I feel justified in all of my melodramatic curse talk. I'm sure I feel similar to how you felt in 2002, 2003, you know, with the socks and feeling anxiety. I feel bad. I feel even worse, actually, because they won for a variety of reasons. But we got a chance to see, like, this is a really cool, fun, exciting team. And they, I don't know if they were Super Bowl bound, but it's easy to imagine a world in which they could have been Super Bowl bound. So yeah, I feel I feel very bad. Very bad. Well, I think the revelation from last night was that Breese looked like 95 percent of where he was last year, which I was not expecting. He was a weird fantasy football guy. It was people like, when's he going to be 100 percent, is it going to happen? So the fact that he looked like that almost made the Rogers thing worse as the game was going on, if it was even possible to feel worse about it, because it's like, oh, this guy is like a guy again. Yeah, even at the very beginning of the game, it's stupid to nitpick the first four play calls. But I was like, wow, they're really throwing a lot coming out of this game. I thought the whole point of this season was to actually use the running game to power Rogers. Obviously, the injury is a freak injury. Nothing could have prevented it. He's an older player. That O -line is obviously problematic, but it was painful actually watching Breese play so well because that could have been really the focal point of the offense. And then Aaron Rodgers just needed to be competent and then this would have been a really competitive team. So it's like I'm legitimately depressed about it. On the other hand, I tell you what I really don't like about it.
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"Coming up, me, Sal, Sunday night, we're back. It's the Bill Simmons podcast presented by FanDuel. The sports calendar is packed. There's no better place to get on in the action than FanDuel. So many sports to bet on, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA Tour, a little tennis coming up later. Safe, secure, easy to use app. FanDuel has exclusive offers, boosts, and more all month long. And when you win, you'll get paid fast. Lots of ways to play. Spread money line over -unders, team totals, player props, so much more. Jump into the action at any time during any game with live betting. Combine multiple bets from the same game and the same game parlay. Try out same game parlay plus as well. Download the FanDuel app today to start making every moment more. You must be 21 plus in select states. Gantley prom call 1 -800 -GAMBLER or visit fanDuel .com slash RG in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, or Virginia. 1 -800 -Next Step or text Next Step to 53342 Arizona, 888 -789 -7777 or visit ccpg .org slash chat in Connecticut, 809 with it in Indiana, 800 -522 -4700 or visit ksgamblinghelp .com in Kansas, 877 -770 -STOP in Louisiana, 800 -327 -5050 or visit MAhelpline .org slash Problem Gambling in Massachusetts. Visit MDGamblingHelp .org in Maryland, 877 -8 -HOPE -NY or text HOPE -NY in New York, 800 -522 -4700 Wyoming or 1800 -GAMBLER .net in West Virginia. This episode is brought to you by Jersey Mike's Subs. Jersey Mike's uses only the highest quality meats and cheeses piled high with fresh produce. You know what I get at Jersey Mike's? I like the Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteak. Here's what it has. Frank's Red Hot Sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, white American cheese, and blue cheese dressing. I am a double cheese guy with my subs. I want things dripping all over the place. I also like the big hoon of cheesesteak, grilled onions, peppers, mushrooms, jalapenos, and extra white American cheese. Don't get a lot of awesome cheesesteak situations out here in California. So those are two of my favorites. Just place your order through the app. Their app is great. You can order ahead and pick it up, have it delivered. You can even earn free subs. I've seen it happen. Jersey Mike's, a sub above. Download the app now. We're also brought to you by the Ringer Podcast Network, where I hope you're listening to all of our NFL podcasts, Ringer NFL Show, Ryan Rosillo, the Ringer Gambling Show, the Ringer Fantasy Football Show, Against All Odds with Cousin Sal. That's back. We have the local pods in Boston and New York and Philly and Chicago. So we are killing it. Killing it on the website as well, TheRinger .com. Check that out. Benjamin Solak's premiering a new Sunday Night column, by the way, that we're excited about. So you can check that out on TheRinger .com. I have a new rewatchables coming on Monday night. It is the all time one for us.
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A highlight from NEW COVID VARIANT HERE NOW!! (What will crypto do?!)
"I think we all know that this video is going to be shadow banned and probably going to be removed by YouTube. But I'm going to speak my mind here and I'm going to show you what's actually going on because there is talk of a new COVID variant and I want to show you what's going on so that you're up to date and you know exactly what's happening. I know you think I may be blowing things out of proportion, but just just have a look here and tell me what what you make of this COVID is making a comeback this summer. So many of us would like to leave it in the past, but cases are once again on the rise. So when will new booster shots roll out? And Thompson asked the CDC director. So COVID is on the rise, but when will the new booster shot be out? Does that remind you of anything? Does that maybe remind you of of the old COVID, the old COVID lockdowns? What's going on here? What are the what are the the the motives here? Why is this coming back and why is this coming back right now? Is there actually a new variant? What is it all about? We're going to speak about that. We're also going to speak about Bitcoin because look, Bitcoin's under the 26 ,000 level. It's not really an emergency just yet, but the real like emergency I would say is if you look at total three, which is the total alt market cap, excluding Bitcoin and Ethereum, and that is now back at levels of just after the FTX collapse. So this is where the FTX collapse was. And if you look at where total three is, this is where total three is. It's the same levels as it was just after the FTX collapse. Now, the question is, what is the future of of this altcoin market? What's it what's it going to do? What's it going to do in the near future? And speaking of COVID, if you look at the Bitcoin RSI, which is the sentiment indicator on Bitcoin, you can see that the RSI are so oversold that the last time that the RSI were oversold is here at this previous COVID low, which where Bitcoin was 3 ,875. So I mean, is this a coincidence that the two COVID lows are or the two RSI lows was at the previous COVID pandemic, beginning of the previous COVID pandemic? And this one again is at the beginning of the new COVID pandemic. We're going to talk about that. Also, a big day today on the NASDAQ, because today we have Nvidia reporting results. You can see Nvidia has had a huge tear this year. I mean, a lot of people actually talk about this rally being the AI rally and the stock that has led the AI rallies in video and they're reporting earnings today. If the earnings if Nvidia's earnings beat forecast, then NASDAQ rallies and probably continues to rally towards an all time high. disappoints If Nvidia today, then we probably see a 5 % correction in the NASDAQ. And then you're going to get the bears coming out and saying that this is we're entering a bear market. So big day today on the NASDAQ. Also, we're going to cross over to BRICS to see what's happening in BRICS. I know that Vladimir Putin spoke. He spoke about the dollarization. The Brazilian prime minister spoke about the dollarization. So we'll touch on that. And then I'm going to show you some tokens that I'm actually looking to buy. Now, I want to just say I'm not buying yet. I'm getting ready to buy. I'll show you what the tokens are and why I'm getting ready to buy. And I know you're probably looking at this and going, are you crazy talking about buying tokens when the market's like this? But that's what I'm going to show you. I'm going to show you my rationale and my thinking. So lots to do today. Let's get in. How scary to think that the IRS is actually back at pre -COVID levels, that the sentiment is actually back at pre -COVID levels in the last time that this happened, Bitcoin was at three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. And I think we then had a rally of seventeen hundred percent. Yeah, sixteen hundred seventeen hundred percent rally after the IRS eyes were this low. So I wonder if the pattern is actually going to repeat itself. Also, I wonder if we're going to get lockdowns again. I wonder what the motives are. In fact, I don't wonder. I'm going to show you what I think the motives are for this this new whisper of COVID lockdowns about a year and a bit before the elections. I mean, look, it's definitely coincidental. There can't be there can't be anything else to it. It has to be coincidental. So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the Binance FUD, because I think that's that's something we talk about. Yeah, lots to talk about, lots to talk about. So listen, if you are new to the channel, obviously subscribe, subscribe, subscribe to our channel, the fastest growing major channel in crypto. If you have been here for a long time, you know the show is going to get shadowbanned. I know the show is going to get shadowbanned. We spent the whole morning deciding whether we wanted to actually talk about that. And we decided that we would rather bring you the truth and not get censored. And if we lose views or if the channel takes a bit of a knock, so what? And the only way I can you can help me get out of this is smashing the like, putting positive comments and helping us get completely, completely, completely unshadowbanned. All right. So let's get into the meat and potatoes of the show. So, yeah, let's quickly look at this. So we've got Sheldon was showing me the Bitcoin chart today, showing me something quite scary. I don't know if I if I actually believe him, but he says, look, if you look at where this rally in twenty seventeen, the rally that took us out of this started, you can say the rally in twenty in twenty eighteen actually started in, say, twenty fourth of December. If you look at where this year's rally started, pretty much more or less the same time, twenty third, twenty fourth of December. Then he says, OK, when did we top? When did we top on this? They can let you can say, look, we topped somewhere around twenty fourth of June or near July. And if you look at this, when did we actually top somewhere around June or July? And he's saying, look, we are following this trend. We are following the cycle. If we do follow the cycle, we could have quite a long way to go before we get to the same levels here. And I do think that we are following the cycle. I want to actually show you. So if we look at the pre -harving cycles, I don't think there's anything different in in the cycles. You can see that we have a a downtrend, we have an uptrend, we have a reaccumulation zone. And then as we get to the halving from the halving, we really start climbing. So I don't know if this year is going to be that different. It looks like the cycle, as much as I hate to say it, it does look like the cycle is is playing out very similar, very similar to two previous cycles. We're also getting in the cycle while this is all happening, we are getting the short term holders capitulating. So if you look at the short term holder, the short term holders, they completely, completely, completely capitulated while the smart money is actually starting to accumulate at this level, at this level of the cycle. And what you see now is you're seeing a whole lot of FUD on Altcoin. So no, Benjamin Khan saying, look, there is a chance that, you know, Solana goes back to eight dollars. I've seen the bear saying that that we could go back to to to a Bitcoin price of nine dollars, nine thousand dollars and twelve thousand dollars. Remember that in this part of the cycle, in the bear part of the cycle, the bears get to be right and they get to tell you that they're right just for like a short period of time because bears will keep calling the market down. They'll keep telling you that Bitcoin is going down to twelve thousand and whatever else. And they'll be right for like short periods of time. But long, long periods of time, they won't be right because the market will just continue to go up and continue to go up. So let them enjoy their moment in the sand. I have been actually looking at the rainbow chart now. You know, I mean, initially I was obviously very, very, very skeptical of the rainbow chart. How the rainbow chart works is it tells you whether Bitcoin is overbought over here. Yeah, it's like maximum bubble territory, serious set of FOMO intensifies. Is this a bubble huddle? Still cheap, accumulated by and basically a fire cell. And as much as, you know, initially I was quite skeptical about the rainbow chart. If you look at it over a long period of time, it actually is quite right. And you can see that right now we're entering the we're in the buy zone and we're entering the basically a fire cell. So there's not actually that much panic on Bitcoin at the moment. Sentiment is bad, but it's not like it's not extreme fear. People are scared, but people aren't very, very scared. And that's why I'm not really ready to start buying old coins yet, because I think that there'll be better opportunities. I'm not saying don't start dollar cost averaging, but don't spend all your money now. And the reason why you probably shouldn't spend all your money now is because we're not at the point where people are panicking. People are getting demotivated. People are getting depressed. But remember that that's what this part of the cycle is designed to do. This part of the cycle is designed to depress you. That's why it's called the depression phase. Now, if we are here and we do have this accumulation left to go, I really hope that the accumulation isn't as long as the previous accumulation, because you can see that it took about a year and a half from that point to get to the same level in the last cycle. I don't think we're there, but I mean, you do need to prepare yourself for a marathon and you do need to prepare yourself to take maybe a little bit more losses if we follow the previous cycle. Be that as it may, as I said, I think I'm in the camp of this rainbow chart, which basically says, look, when prices start coming down to the bottom here, when they start reaching this oversold territory, just keep accumulating slowly. But the main thing is stay in the game, because I showed you that I showed you this here. I'll show it to you again. The main thing is that you've got to be here when these one, two, three, four, five days happen and one, two, three, four, five, six days happen and one, two, three, four, five, six days happen. The whole increase in the price of Bitcoin, 100 percent increase was here over 24 days, eight, eight and eight or seven, seven and seven. So I think you've got to be here. You've got to be here when this happens. So don't get demotivated now. Don't give up now. Now is probably the best time to to actually be accumulating. And I'll show you a bit later what it is that I'm actually accumulating and why I'm actually accumulating it, because a lot of people were talking to me about my tweet yesterday. Let's look at the bubbles. Oh, I'm loving the bubbles, Josh, I must say, and actually, to be honest, it's actually not only me loving the bubbles. I see Kasper is down seven point two eight today, maybe getting into my buy zone. Not yet. Not yet. Robert also down six point five three, also not in my buy zone yet. I mean, as I said, I am loving the bubbles. For those of you who don't know, there is a morning banter research call. Just click on newsroom over here. You'll see that we have a call in 17 hours added to your calendar and then you can join our morning research call. Also, if you want to search for a token, like, for example, if you don't know where Solana is, just search and you'll see it actually starts flashing. So we've built that functionality. And I think a lot of people are starting to notice bubbles today and now you can see earlier yesterday who's back streaming, by the way. And I actually I love his videos. So he he was also one of the people that really helped me when I when I started banter. He was one of the guys that like really, really helped me with the channel. So good to see him streaming again. And yesterday on his stream, he actually spoke about banter bubbles. Let's get to a really good tool. This tool was created by Crypto Banter. It's called the Banter Bubbles. And I want to be clear here. If you've been on crypto Twitter or if you follow this industry closely, none of these names will be a shock to you because these have all been talked about a lot on crypto Twitter. I'm not the first person talking about any of these. But one thing I think is really easy is you go to the banter bubbles here and you go ahead and you set it over to the year. And this gives you the highest performing tokens over the last year. And you can also say top one hundred, top two hundred. So good to see that other streamers are actually starting to to notice banter bubbles.
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A highlight from Farmer's Almanac: Literature to Poop To
"Hello everybody, the Xfinity 10G network was made for streaming giving you an incredible viewing experience now You can stream all of your favorite live sports shows and movies with way less buffering freezing and lagging Thanks to the next generation Xfinity 10G network You get a reliable connection so you can sit back relax and enjoy your favorite entertainment Get way more into what you're into when you stream on the Xfinity 10G network learn more at Xfinity .com Now is the time to experience America's pastime in a whole new way Major League Baseball has teamed up with T -Mobile for business to advance the game with next -gen 5G solutions going deeper with real -time data visualization new camera angles that put fans on the field with their favorite players and Even testing an automated ball strike system in the minor leagues This is the 5G era of baseball see what we can do for your business at T -Mobile .com Major League Baseball trademarks used with permission officially licensed product of MLB players incorporated Welcome to stuff you should know a production of I heart radio Howdy and welcome to the podcast I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant Jerry's here, too and We're just some homie folksy types ready to spin a good yarn for you about the old farmers That's right. You know why I commissioned this one. Why Chuck why because I thought it would be fun To put a old farmers almanac in the outhouse at my camp Okay, wait first you have an outhouse. I have an outhouse. Is it just a pit like a latrine with a log over it? No, it's a composting toilet. Okay with a little solar panel outside that runs a fan Okay, and the fan do the fan moves air through to provide aerobic Interaction exercise the with the with the with the poop and the composting Pete I just made a Compost tea like that, but I used a submerged little fountain pump. They create the air movement Yeah, pretty neat it is neat. So yeah, I got a composting toilet. It's good It helps I don't use it. I use it to go poopy if I'm there for more than a couple of days But largely I put it there. So You know some of some of the ladies in my life and and friends wives and things Don't like to squat in the woods. Some of them don't mind but I put that there So everyone would want to go camping at the camp and be like, yeah, you got a composting toilet I feel good about using it I can I can see the conversation between the couple in the kitchen back in Atlanta like one now He's got a composting toilet Well now I work now you can count me in Well, and now I gotta say is he's got a composting toilet and an old farmer's almanac in that outhouse Because I thought it would just be sort of a fun thing because I knew from growing up as a kid That an old in the south that an old farmer's almanac was quite a common thing to find in a bathroom or an outhouse To read while you're there on the john, so I have one there. It's from a couple years ago I need to get a new one. I should change it every year, you know, that's sort of the whole point of an almanac pretty slack and So I thought I was reading it the other day when I was up there cutting grass I was like, I don't really don't even know the history of these things and so let's find out So did you read them when you were a kid, too? I mean a little bit here and there is not very interesting for a kid. Sure But grandmother my Bryant my my dad's mom was a backyard farmer her whole life and you know, she was one of these people that Put a lot of stock in the farmer's almanac And so it was just something I knew about in my life as a kid probably didn't read it a ton though I was never exposed to it. I knew it existed you were from the north Yeah, it was Midwest but to Georgia Ohio was the north Yes, still but there was corn corn everywhere around where I lived Oh sure So it is a little surprising But the biggest surprise that I received since we started researching this is that you me Apparently used to read the farmer's almanac when she was a little kid Nothing you ever tell me about you me will surprise me. It's true. You just never know. No, you really don't that's great For those of you who've never met you me you wouldn't consider her a farmer's almanac type That's pretty safe to say yeah, so I was I thought that was neat she's very well -rounded but I In in like chia pet fashion went on and ordered this time myself a farmer's almanac I was gonna order you one and I was like, I'll bet he's already got one on. Oh, look at you very smart Also, I've made a joke about you're from the north as it turns out as we'll see the old farmer's almanac came from New England Originally, yeah, so I was you know people from the north There's plenty of farming that went on all over the country by God they even cover the weather forecast for the year in, California Exactly, they they don't discriminate. All right, so big thanks to Dave Ruse who helped us out with this one We're gonna talk mostly about the old farmer's almanac, but we will talk a little bit about its rival the farmer's almanac But we're talking about the old farmer's almanac the one that's that's looked the same Since its inception with that yellow cover the Four seasons. It's very Did you get yours in the mail yet? No, I pre -ordered it. I won't arrive until August 30th. Oh, this is for next year Yes, that's very smart Well, I mean what am I gonna do be like well what happened two weeks ago getting this year's, you know I mean like I want that you could from August to December you could surely gain some insight No, I don't like to waste money. I'd rather just wait But it's been the same well We'll talk a little bit more about the cover and its presentation and all that but it's very iconic looking if you've ever seen one It's been around since 1792. That's amazing Which means it's the oldest Continuously published periodical in North America. Yeah, and I looked it up. That's the the oldest Published anything that's been continuously printed in North America is the Hartford Courant We started as the Connecticut Courant in 1764 not too much sooner than the farmers almanac But then if you look for the world the the Swiss have us beat by a mile yeah, they have a What's called the post and domestic times the post ach in Rick? Tiden in Gar Okay, and again that means the post and domestic times which has been printed continuously since 1645 Amazing, but still that's nothing to sneeze at 1792 and they never missed an addition pretty good Yeah, totally in these these books basically, I mean those sort of an almanac craze at one point Lots of small family farms all over the country. Yeah pre industrialization There were hundreds of farmers almanacs all over the place a lot of regional ones Even local ones and what you would find in them if you were like, well guys what the heck? It's a farmer's almanac. Good. Good walk back. What it is is there are books that will say things like Here's when you should plant things. Here's some tips on cattle very importantly here are Astronomical Charts this is when the Sun is gonna rise and set in the spring and throughout the year These are the phases of the moon. Here are some recipes. Maybe here's some jokes. Here's some poetry So they would mix in some folksy fun stuff and entertaining stuff along with Sort of boots to the ground advice tips and raw data for farming Yeah, and but the big draw is the long -range weather forecasts like they essentially forecast the weather Generally for the entire United States and Canada a year in advance Yeah, we'll talk about that and they say that they're 80 % accurate, which is mind -boggling. It's it's almost unbelievable yeah, and it's things like I remember my grandmother referring to it for her crops later in the year to see like How rainy is it gonna be this fall? How rainy will it be six months from now exactly and people put a lot of stock in it And some people still do even yeah, so it's it's an unusual and unique combination of folksy folk wisdom and folklore even Things like if you want to have turnips in the winter and you there's no such thing as refrigeration Keep them in packed in sawdust during the summer or whatever stuff like that. It's useful, but then there's also like Astrology like horoscopes and that kind of thing So it but then it's alongside like actual legitimate astronomical data that is accurate It's a weird combination of really is and apparently it grew out of the medieval era And the word almanac itself seems to have been invented by medieval French astronomers in the 13th century although they said that it was an Arabic word almanac and That meant calendar of the heavens and apparently these astronomers just totally made that up Yeah, it was yeah, like you said invented by the French these medieval almanacs were they were just handwritten this before the printing press and They did some similar things though. They talked about like celestial bodies and Moon phases and stuff like that Eventually when the printing press comes along They were some of the first things to be printed like people live their lives by these a lot of times So they were some of the most popular early Books and periodicals that existed in the world essentially Yeah, because of their popularity and because even back then they were just kind of bizarre creatures their own thing They were also widely satirized too as early as 1532 There was a French satirist named Rabalais who created a parody almanac And he prognosticated Stuff that's quite obvious as a way to just kind of mock what almanacs do But he started a trend that lasted for hundreds of years and the most famous parody almanac was poor Richard's almanac Which was published by Benjamin Franklin from 1732 to 58 and what's neat is Even though it was a parody and they made stuff up and it was funny and satire of almanacs It also contained like actual helpful useful information, too Yeah, it did he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Saunders and It's famous for a lot of things one of which like you said it was around for What 20 something years 25 26 years? I'm guessing like 30 something Yeah, but it was like the best -selling for that long but it was very famous now for these a lot of turns of phrase that Franklin invented as Saunders such as We still use today Haste makes waste is one Fish and visitors smell after three days And of course the old standard early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise Very all came from poor Richard's almanac.
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A highlight from 1376: This Will Send Bitcoin to $1,500,000 - Cathie Wood
"In today's show, we're going to be breaking down the latest technical analysis, as well as Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy and Bitcoin, three years after, now at 153 ,000 BTC on their balance sheet. We'll also be discussing Bitcoin's secondary scare now playing out, warrants top analyst Benjamin Cohen. But how low will the Bitcoin price plunge? We're going to be discussing that. As well as one catalyst which can trigger the Bitcoin price to explode by more than 450 % predicts fund strats. Tom Lee will also be discussing rich dad Robert Kiyosaki predicting Bitcoin rising to a million dollars per coin and gold hitting 75 ,000 while silver hits 60 ,000. If the world economy crashes, we'll also be discussing Cathie Wood confirming her one and a half million dollar Bitcoin price forecast for the king crypto. We'll also be taking a look at the overall crypto market, all this plus so much more in today's show. Yo, what's good crypto fam? This is first and foremost, a video show. So if you want the full premium experience with video, visit my rumble channel at cryptonewsalerts .net. Again that's cryptonewsalerts .net. With that being shared fam, welcome everyone. This is podcast episode number 1376. I'm your fearless host JV and today is stacking Saturday, it's August 19th, 2023. Let's kick it off with our market watch as we do each and every day. We got Bitcoin still in the red unfortunately, but maintaining that 26 ,000 support. We have Ether and many of the alts back in the green, but barely after one of the biggest bloodbaths we have experienced in several months, we have Ether maintaining 1600 and it's just above one trillion. So the entire crypto market cap right now is only a trillion dollars. Isn't that insanity? Now there's 26 billion in volume at the past 24 hours with Bitcoin dominance currently at 48 .1 % with the Ether dominance at 19 % even and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers in the past 24 hours, we have SUI up about 16 % trading at 55 and a half cents, followed by Hedera, HBAR up 11 and a half percent trading at six and a half cents, followed by AKT up 11 % trading at $1 .55 and checking out the top 100 crypto gainers for the past week. Finally, we have many of the alts back in the green, but we have to keep in mind the massive bloodbath with over a billion dollars worth of liquidations practically in the past 48 hours. So naturally a lot of these altcoins are bouncing back after 20, 30 % losses and checking out the crypto greed and fear index, we're currently rated a 39 still in fear. We were in fear yesterday at a 37 last week was a 54 neutral and last month a 56 in green. Greed. So there you have it. How many of you have taken advantage of this recent dip? Please do let me know. BTFD and Staccanem Sats, dollar cost averaging is the name of the game, especially if you're in this for the long haul and also want to ask you where my long -term hodlers at, make some noise in that live chat. Now we're going to do our technical analysis a little bit different today. Why not try something new? And yes, I got some color to my skin because I spent the day at the pool here in Puerto Rico yesterday with my daughter and it feels good. Soak it in those sun rays, free vitamin D, D3. Why not take advantage of it? But anyways, now let's break down our technical analysis. I'm using trading view today. You should be able to see this on your screen. Let me know in the comments. We're going to do the one day right now. It's a sell signal. Sell says 14 neutral is a seven and a buy is a five and you're going to check out these oscillators right here. It says buy and then you have the moving averages is a strong sell signal. You're going to see why here in a moment. Let's start with the oscillators, which you should be able to see on the left on your screen right now. Relative strength index we commonly cover, which is the RSI is a buy signal. The commodity channel index is a buy signal. The momentum indicator is a buy signal. The MACD is a sell signal. The Williams percentage range is a buy signal. We got some neutral signals, but let's check out these moving averages. Check it out. Sell, sell, sell, sell, sell. Everything virtually says sell for moving averages except the whole moving average. I'm not even familiar personally with that metric, but all the major ones, the exponential, the simple moving average, et cetera, all in the sell zone. Very interesting to say the least, but I want to know how many of you took advantage of this dip or are you expecting and anticipating the Bitcoin price to drop even lower? If you're one of those expecting a lower drop, how low would the Bitcoin price likely go? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. With that being shared, now let's break down the latest with Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy because it was exactly three years ago today he got his infamous Bitcoin position and now today they hold over 153 ,000 BTC on their balance sheet, which is no joke. Some say when Bitcoin hits new highs, Michael Saylor is going to be amongst the richest persons in this world. That wouldn't surprise me whatsoever, especially with his attitude of there is no second best and continuing to accumulate Bitcoin and never selling, he said, for hundreds and hundreds of years to come, so we shall see how that plays out. All I know is Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy is the smart money, Cathie Wood is the smart money, and I like watching the smart money and not listening necessarily to what they say, but more importantly, always watching what they do. I'm watching you. You know what I mean? Anyways, fam, let's break it down. MicroStrategy's co -founder and executive chair, Saylor, who served as the company's former CEO for over 30 years, continues to remain bullish on Bitcoin three years after his publicly traded business intelligence company decided to make its first Bitcoin purchase. That's right. If you missed the memo, Michael Saylor, his company MicroStrategy was the first publicly traded company to put Bitcoin on its balance sheet. Saylor also made a big price prediction for the asset, believing it could exceed a million dollars per coin. I say that's conservative because I've covered Michael Saylor predictions here on the show of him talking about a $14 million Bitcoin price. Real talk. Now, MicroStrategy made history and headlines. It was August 11th, 2020, virtually three years ago after becoming the first publicly traded company to purchase Bitcoin. The firm initially hinted back in July of 2020 about its plans to invest in assets such as Bitcoin or gold rather than holding cash as a way to escape inflation, with the company later deciding to buy Bitcoin worth a quarter billion, 250 million, and adopting it as a primary treasury reserve asset. And how many of you remember the infamous quote where he compared keeping cash on the balance sheet as a melting ice cube? I'll never forget that personally. And according to Saylor at that time, who was MicroStrategy's CEO, the decision to go for Bitcoin was made because of the crypto, served as a better hedge against inflation and had a higher return on investment compared with other assets. Now, that purchase marked the beginning of several investments amid the crypto's volatile price movements, causing the company to hold a large Bitcoin stash. And in June of 2023, Saylor announced that the business intelligence giant bought 12 ,333 more Bitcoin for $347 million, making it one of the company's largest purchases in a single quarter since second quarter of 2021. And as of July 31st of this year, MicroStrategy officially holds 152 ,800 BTC, which the company said was purchased for roughly $4 .5 billion at an average price of $29 ,672 per BTC. Now the business intelligence software firm is the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin. Besides corporate holders, we have the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, and they literally control over 400 ,000 BTC, just FYI. Meanwhile in a December 2022 SEC filing, MicroStrategy revealed it sold 704 Bitcoin to generate tax benefits. The sale was a first for the company with the action contrary to the previous statement by Saylor, who said that MicroStrategy would never sell any of its stash. Now Saylor is known as one of the biggest Bitcoin supporters and has continued to promote the asset as far superior to gold, which is fact, calling it digital gold. However, he has not always not been pro Bitcoin. I mean, there was a time it was actually against it. There's an infamous tweet dating back to 2013 stating it would suffer the same fate as online gambling. Meanwhile, online gambling seems to be soaring and thriving better than ever before. And the same thing with Bitcoin. Go figure. Even not a rocket scientist can be right every single time, right? But Saylor's view on Bitcoin has since changed and you got to respect he had the balls to change his opinion publicly. How many people like Peter Schiff refused to ever change their opinion, regardless of how wrong they clearly are. You know what I mean? Now the MicroStrategy executive chair in May of 2022 said the Bitcoin price can go into the millions per coin while stating it is the future of money. We know this is a fact. The following month, Saylor predicted Bitcoin price would skyrocket to a million dollars. And later in September of 2022, the exec said the crypto could be valued at 500 ,000 in the next 10 years if it matches the market cap of gold. And for context, Bitcoin's market cap is currently roughly 570 billion, while gold is currently estimated to be $12 .8 trillion. Now also, Saylor seemed to be unfazed by the ongoing enforcement crackdown on the crypto sector by the SEC, stating the regulators actions could benefit Bitcoin by boosting the asset's price and increasing its market dominance share to 80 percent. Could you imagine Bitcoin continuing to eat these altcoins kind of like Ms. Pac -Man? You know what I mean? I think it's likely to happen in just a matter of time. And Saylor, who served as the CEO of MicroStrategy for 30 years, left his position in August to become the company's executive officer, with MicroStrategy president Fongli serving as the CEO. The American business exec explained that his new role will help him better focus on the firm's Bitcoin acquisition strategy and related Bitcoin advocacy initiatives. So there you have it. The man just wants to focus on stacking more sets. You can't blame him. Much power and respect to him. Shout out to Michael Saylor. If he is one of your favorite Bitcoiners, do let me know. And which one of your favorite Saylor speeches? One of mine is, there is no second best. There's Bitcoin. And you got Bitcoin. Shout out to Saylor. Anyways, fam. Now let's cover our next story of the day and discuss when do you feel the bottom will be in for Bitcoin? Do you think the bottom is already in at 15 .7 or do you think we have lower to go? Let's see what some of the top analysts have to say. This is Benjamin Cohen. Cohen tells his 800 ,000 YouTube subs the current crypto downturn is in line with a pattern that occurs every four years. Quoting him here. The idea behind the secondary scare in crypto comes from the fact the S &P 500 tends to get a correction in August for September of its US pre -election year. As we know, we have a big presidential election in the US next year along with that having. So if we were to look at the 2023, you can see the S &P is in fact getting this correction, which we talked about. The S &P 500 is down a little over 5 % since the start of this month. And according to the widely followed strategist, Bitcoin has plummeted by between 39 and 83%. During the previous secondary scares, quoting him here in 2019, once the secondary scare got underway, once we got below the 20 week moving average, right, or the weekly candle that led us below it, Bitcoin dropped yet another 61%. This one, 2015, was about a 40 or 39 % drop. Then in 2011, you had an 82 .5 % drop before we actually finally bottomed out in the secondary scare. In all three cases in the pre halving year, the S &P dropped in quarter three of the pre -election year, and then Bitcoin entered into a downtrend for a while. And we have three examples, one where we went down about 80%, one where we went down about 40%, and one we went down about 60%. So on how long Bitcoin could fall going by historical precedent, Cohen outlines three scenarios, quoting him again. If it's a 40 % drop similar to 2015, 40 % drop puts Bitcoin at $17 ,500, OK? That would be the lowest. This would basically correspond to his 2015 move that would put Bitcoin at $17 ,500. A 61 % drop, which is what we experienced in 2019, would put it at around $11 ,400. And an 80 % drop would put it much lower, which I will say, I don't think it is going to go nearly that low. And to watch this video he did entitled, Bitcoin, the Secondary Scare Has Begun, check the show notes below the video in the description. And what are your thoughts? Do you agree or disagree with the analysts? My personal thoughts, the lows are already in. They were in a long time ago at the end of last year. We hit that $15 ,700 level. I personally am very skeptical that we'll ever see a sub $20 ,000 Bitcoin price ever again. But I could be wrong in the same token. That's my personal opinion. Is that OK? I'm just telling you how I really feel. I think it's a great discount to take advantage of buying Bitcoin right now, considering the all time high in November of 2021 was roughly $69 ,000. So you tell me the math, where are we at, like a 60, 70 % discount from the top? Not too shabby. I would be stacking stats like there is no tomorrow versus, oh, let's sell my entire Bitcoin stash and buy it back at $15 ,000. What if you're wrong? We don't go sub $20 ,000 and you lose out on a massive position. That could happen as well. I don't like gambling. I'm in this for the long haul and there's nothing like the real thing, baby. And that's the fastest horse in the race. That's the king crypto. We call it VTC. And with that being shared, fam, now let's discuss an $180 ,000 Bitcoin price prediction by the one and only Tom Lee of Funstrat Global Advisors, managing partner Tom Lees, is one of the catalysts which can spur the Bitcoin price to hit. Six figures is going to be Bitcoin ETF approval. Let's break down this Bitcoin ETF, because that's what everyone is talking about right now, right? Quoting him here from this interview, he says, if the spot Bitcoin ETF gets approved, I think the demand will be greater than the daily supply of Bitcoin. And so the clearing price, this is done by Sean Farrell, who is our crypto digital strategist, is over $150 ,000. It could even be like $180 ,000 per coin. A spot US because a spot Bitcoin ETF is approved outside of the US. When they asked him, do you think there will be a spot Bitcoin ETF? And with Bitcoin currently trading at what, roughly $26 ,000, that means he's predicting an appreciation between 467 % and 580%. Let's go send it. Now, on Bitcoin's likely price action, if a spot Bitcoin ETF fails to win approval in the US, Lee shares the following, they're still upside because of the halving next year. Yes, so you have a drop in supply again, so the clearing price has to increase, but it won't be six figures. So he's ultimately saying if we don't get the ETF approval, we can still go to six figures eventually, but not as soon as we would anticipate with the approval of a Bitcoin ETF. So according to the Bitcoin bull, the Federal Reserve's monetary policy going forward will impact crypto assets, quoting him again from this interview. Crypto is dependent on monetary policy, so if inflation is cooling, then we can start to bet on forward financial conditions, easing, and the central bank easing sooner. That's bullish for crypto as well as alternative assets. To watch this video he did on this interview, inflation is on the glide path towards sub 2 % by the middle, check the show notes below the video in the description. Let me know if you agree or disagree with Tom Lee, virtually predicting that the Bitcoin price will likely see 150 and 180 ,000 per coin between that range coming up here in the near future. And again, I'm going to read everyone's comments out loud, so please let me know where you're from and any comments or questions, address them right now in the live chat. Now let's discuss Robert Kiyosaki, the famous Rich Dad Poor Dad author, and his $1 million Bitcoin price prediction, followed by the one and only Cathie Wood of ARK Invest with her doubling down on her $1 .5 million price prediction and how she got to those numbers, you know, dates, et cetera, and everything that comes along with it, and then we'll dive into our live Q &A. Massive shout out to Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad was a very influential book in my young adulthood, which absolutely impacted me in a positive way. So give kudos and flowers when they are due. In a tweet on Monday, Kiyosaki explained that while he expects the price of Bitcoin to reach $100 ,000 per coin in the near term, he believes that it can soar to a million dollars, while gold will rise to $75 ,000, I take it he means an ounce, and silver trade at $60 ,000 an ounce if the world's economy crashes, noting, he has been saying for years, that gold and silver are God's money, while Bitcoin is people's money, and he also wrote the following, bad news, if stocks and bond markets crash, gold and silver skyrocket, worse news, if the world economy crashes, Bitcoin will rise to a million dollars, gold to $75 ,000, and silver to $60 ,000. Now would you consider this bad news? If the markets crashed and Bitcoin skyrocketed to a million dollars, that'd be the best news of my life besides the birth of my daughter, just saying. He added that us savers who hold the US dollar will be called fake money, they'll be in serious trouble, noting that the US national debt is way too high, preach. Kiyosaki often said that gold, silver, and Bitcoin are his preferred investments, emphasizing they are the best for unstable times, and following his warning about the global recession, he cautioned in May the world economy is on the verge of a collapse, the renowned author predicted in February the price of Bitcoin would hit $500 ,000 per coin by 2025, the year preceding the halving, and while gold will soar to $5 ,000 and silver will hit $500 during the same time period, he recently started saying that the price of Bitcoin would $100 ,000 this year in 2023, and $120 ,000 next year in 2024, which is the same prediction made by Standard Chartered Bank, and FYI, guess who is the primary shareholder of Standard Chartered Bank? You guessed right, it's BlackRock, and did you know that BlackRock owns even a large piece of micro strategy? That's right, so they're already indirectly invested into Bitcoin, just pointing that out. This week, he urged the investors to buy silver before it's gone, noting that it is more affordable than gold. Kiyosaki has been warning that the US economy is headed for a crash landing, he previously said that America is bankrupt and warned of hyperinflation, the rich dad author has been cautioning that a giant crash is coming for quite some time, many, many years, right? Moreover, he warned that the US dollar will die as the BRICS nations, which include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and like 20, 30 plus other nations, plan to launch a common currency, and it's gonna be interesting to see how this plays out and what currency that they select. Could you imagine if BRICS adopted Bitcoin as their currency? Hmm, wouldn't that be a game changer? And also, there's other parts of the world right now with hyperinflation occurring in real time, I think Bitcoin is the only savior, just as it saved El Salvador, and if you translate El Salvador, it translates to the savior, go figure, could it be a coincidence? All by design. Let me know your honest thoughts, fam. And now let's break down our final feature story of the day, that's Cathie Wood of ARK Invest and her prediction of a one and a half million dollar Bitcoin price, send it and let's go, in a forecast case study released in February. Let me know if you can see the screen, I know the text is a little smaller on this particular article, but let me know in the chat, please. ARK Invest presented three scenarios for the crypto market until 2030. The bearish one suggests Bitcoin will just rise to 260 ,000. Not too shabby for a bearish scenario, send it, let's go, while the bullish one foresees a surge to one and a half million dollars per Bitcoin, and in the interview with Bloomberg this week, Cathie Wood said the team's confidence in the bullish scenario has increased. That's great, she's gaining more confidence, let's go. And as you can see outlined here, Bitcoin to likely scale into a multi trillion dollar market, you can see the bear case with a 2030 price target which shows 258 ,500 in this graph on the left, and then followed by that, the base case by 2030 represents 682 ,800 Bitcoin. I'd love that personally, I love all these targets, but could you imagine Bitcoin really hitting 1 .48 million, virtually 1 .5 million by 2030 in a bullish case, I most absolutely can see that happening. Wood believes Bitcoin will continue to establish itself as an insurance option against inflation. And that everyone will want it at the end of the day. Cryptos protect wealth from outright confiscation, great point, inflation and the risk of loss to third parties when stored or transferred. With the adoption of cryptos and the regulatory and legal framework in place, interest in Bitcoin will grow exponentially, I agree 100%. The SEC being flooded with applications right now to launch Bitcoin ETFs clearly indicates the same. ARK Invest teamed up with 21 shares and applied documents ahead of investing giant BlackRock, so they're actually first in line. The SEC has accepted this and other submissions as indicated in public records. A decision is due on 13th of August, but unfortunately, that decision ultimately shared that they were going to push back the decision now until I believe the first quarter of 2024. So sadly, there will be no Bitcoin spot ETF approvals anytime soon this year in 2023. That's the bad news. But some experts agree that BlackRock's participation increases the chances of a positive outcome existing crypto funds have already experienced an influx of capital from institutional investors not seen since quarter four of 2021 when we hit that all time high with over 700 million dollars invested into Bitcoin in just four weeks. So there you have it. And also, you can see here Bitcoin spiral for your cycle and you can see it shows you the bottoms, the halvings, and this is actually a pretty cool chart in this cycle with a record in 2026 Bitcoin will reach the maximum in the range, which is one hundred thousand to a million. I know that's a very wide margin and kind of the same as Stock the Flow model creator Plant B predicting Bitcoin being somewhere between one hundred grand and a million dollars after the halving. And in the next cycle, with a peak in 2030, the price will range from one million to ten million dollars per coin. Well, if you'd like to see a ten million dollar price action, let's freaking go. Now it's currently unknown whether the ARK Invest team was guided by the theory of cycles, but potential investors should consider that forecast and mathematical models give only a idea conditional of further changes. So there you have it, fam. How many of you are in agreement with Cathie Wood of ARK Invest that we likely to see that million dollar Bitcoin price or even above one and a half million by the year 2030, which is roughly seven years out? Let me know your honest thoughts in the comments right down below. And don't forget to check out CryptoNewsAlerts .net for the full premium experience with video and to participate in the live Q &A. And I look forward to seeing you on tomorrow's episode. HODL.
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A highlight from LAST TIME THIS HAPPENED BITCOIN RALLIED 489% (Will History Repeat?)
"Pattern played out on Bitcoin, price rallied over 400 % to make new all -time highs. So in today's video, we are going to be unpacking the data to work out what's next for Bitcoin and will it mirror this previous massive move. Now, just to break down the agenda for today's show, it's going to be a massive one to contextualize where we currently sit in the market. I'm going to be discussing what are Bitcoin's upcoming catalysts because there are two major things that are going to drive price over the next couple of months. I also want to discuss where do we currently sit in the current cycle? Are we entering a new bull market? Are we still in the depths of a bear market? And when can we look at a significant price recovery? Because even though we've swung off the lows to reach those figures that you probably hear floating around like 60K, 100K, Bitcoin is going to need to have a massive move and of course a massive catalyst to get it there. So we're going to talk about when that could happen based on where we are in the current cycle. And next, I want to talk about what's the best window to accumulate. So in the context of the data I'm about to show you, what does this mean for actually buying Bitcoin and buying altcoins? How will altcoins respond to Bitcoin price action? That is all stuff I'm going to be talking about today. So that is the agenda. And without further ado, let's kick it off with point number one. What are Bitcoin's upcoming catalysts? Well, there are two that I want to talk about today. The first one is Bitcoin spot ETFs. And actually over the last few days, we had some massive announcements regarding the Bitcoin spot ETF. Now, the Bitcoin spot ETF news obviously caused a massive rally in the Bitcoin price when it was first announced, but we have seen a slow bleed over the past few weeks as we've started to see the SEC delayed the approvals or rejections, mind you, of some of these ETFs. But I want to remind you just how big of a catalyst this actually is for Bitcoin, considering it's going to allow retail and participants institutional to now access Bitcoin via the stock market. So your parents, your grandparents, people that may not necessarily be so used to using crypto exchanges will now be able to talk to their stockbroker or use their brokerage app to buy Bitcoin. And I think this could be a huge vertical for retail adoption and also institutions as it will now allow them to put Bitcoin on their balance sheet within the current regulatory frameworks. It also gives more validity, I think, to Bitcoin as an asset that could potentially lead to more fund managers, more companies, et cetera, adding Bitcoin to their books. It is huge, but obviously the market is waiting out for this approval via the SEC. BlackRock clearly being the company that has the biggest AUM, so assets under management in the world, leading the pack here in terms of positioning. Although we will see ARK get their decision slightly before BlackRock because they filed first. So let's look at some of the latest updates that we have had in the ETF realm, considering it's such a big pivotal moment for Bitcoin and as an extension of that crypto. So as expected, a couple of days ago, we did have the SEC delaying the ARK Invest filing. So it was officially delayed and there was no decision made on grayscale to do with their case versus the SEC in trying to convert their current fund, which is a futures fund into an ETF. So those were the first two things that we were waiting out for the grayscale trust conversion, as well as the ARK approval, none of which we got a confirmed answer on because ARK was delayed and there was no grayscale decision yet. But here are the dates that you need to look out for because the SEC can't keep kicking the can down the road forever. Eventually, they're going to have to make a decision. And although they have the right to essentially delay the decision one, two, three times on the fourth time, they do need to make a decision. However, they can choose to approve or just flat out reject it in any moment leading up to that final deadline. So we had the first deadline where we did see a delay from the ARK ETF, but we do have some more deadlines that are soon approaching here. You can see the dates clearly. We have the 17th of October, the 16th of October as well for iShares and Bitwise. We are now probably going to see ARK get delayed into its next threshold here, which is in November. So what I would keep my eye out for is some of the September and October approvals. So the next closest deadline is the first deadline on iShares and Bitwise on the 2nd of September and the 1st of September. So the 1st of September is the date to watch that is in two weeks when it comes to the spot Bitcoin ETF approval. If denied, then we are looking towards mid -October for the second round of deadlines. And then we also have the ARK one to look forward to slightly after that in November. So they can keep delaying it. But what we do know is that their final deadlines will start to hit on January 10th for ARK. And if that's approved, then that should lead to the approvals of more of these deadlines for iShares, Bitwise, etc. leading down the list in March. So January is the first final deadline and then the rest of the final deadlines hit in March. But September 1st is the next date that you need to watch out for in terms of the next potential day where we could see an approval or rejection. But because they're being so slow with ARK and they decided to delay and because they decided to not give a grayscale decision, I do anticipate that they will kick the can down the road a little bit further, which will keep investors waiting. And clearly this is what investors are waiting for when you look at Bitcoin price action. It's the biggest story in the market. And it did result in this move of the 200 MA of 23 % to the upside from 25K to 31K for Bitcoin. But now investors are just starting to get a little impatient, a little bit bored. I think the whole Bitcoin spot ETF narrative was overplayed during this run -up. And this is where you see some sellers start to exit the market. So some of the weaker hands now starting to exit that were holding on for a approval pump. Now, I still do think we get an approval pump by the way, because the probability from Bloomberg analysts is 65 % that we get a spot ETF Bitcoin approval. So if it is 65 % and you want to assume the market is pricing it in at 65%, if it gets approved, well, there's a discrepancy there of 35 % that the market isn't baking in that will likely result in a pump. So I do think if we get approved, this will lead to the next wave up for Bitcoin. And if you do want to take a similar move to what happened before of 25%, let's assume the same move is replicated from the current levels, then that could potentially take us to the 36 to 38K price target for Bitcoin. And that could happen as soon as September 1st or as late as January next year, depending on what happens with some of these filings. They also may ask for amendments, but definitely at some point, we will get a concrete decision. What happens on the flip side? If it is rejected, well, if it's rejected, I do think Bitcoin comes back down to that 25 to 26K level. If we are assuming that the market stays constant. So let's assume nothing happens in the macro realm. Nothing happens with the finance and the Coinbase cases and everything is the same as today. And we get a rejection today. Then I think we would come down to 26 ish K in that environment. But of course, things are going to happen in the meantime in the lead up to a potential rejection. But I am on the bullish side that we will get approval because they have made multiple amendments. BlackRock also has never really lost any of its spot filings. It has an exemplary track record. It's only ever gotten rejected once in its history. And when the biggest asset manager in the world decides to file, you better believe they've done their due diligence. And I believe that it will set a precedent for some of these other funds who are now copying the structure of the BlackRock ETF filing. So I am cautiously optimistic there that we will get an approval, but we will just need to wait for those dates that I mentioned. All right. What is your catalyst number two? It's of course the Bitcoin halving. Remember after I talk about catalyst number two, the Bitcoin halving, we are going to get into the question of where are we now versus previous cycles and what's next for Bitcoin based on the data that you're probably eager to hear about. That's in the title of the video. We're getting into that. But the second really important event that we have to analyze here is the Bitcoin halving. And let's look at the historical performance of Bitcoin leading into the halving and after the halving to try and map where we are in the cycle before we bring in some other data. So the Bitcoin halving is now 235 days away. If you don't know what the Bitcoin halving is, essentially the issuance of Bitcoin to Bitcoin miners will be halved. It's halved every four years. And essentially over time, this creates more scarcity for the Bitcoin asset. Now, miners essentially earning less means less Bitcoin is coming onto the market and it does have an effect on supply, of course. And when supply is contracted in the market, then price tends to find a new equilibrium if demand stays constant. That is a law of economics. However, the Bitcoin halving isn't just a supply side factor. It's actually more of a demand side factor. Now, that may sound counterintuitive at first because it's not a demand side event, but the hype leading into the halving and the narrative that it's assumed in its own right actually creates demand for Bitcoin as an asset. And because the Bitcoin issuance is going down, people start to believe it's more scarce. And as it becomes more scarce, demand actually also increases. So it is a supply and a demand side event, which is why historically combined with some other business cycle reasons, the Bitcoin halving has resulted in huge positive price performance for Bitcoin. If we look based on previous cycles and this cycle in terms of the four -year halving cycles, Bitcoin is currently 82 % of the way there towards the next halving. And typically what we've seen into halvings is a nice run -up. So we have seen a run -up during this period in the 2017 cycle. We actually saw a decline followed by a run -up post halving last cycle. But if you just look at the data, we know that typically roughly a year after the Bitcoin halving is when you get your blow off top. So it happened in 2013. The blow off top happened around a year later. It also happened again in 2017. The blow off top happened around a year later. It also happened in 2021. The blow off top happened about a year later after the halving. So if we take that into account and we look at the halving cycle, then you could start to affirm, yes, we're heading into the next cycle, but Bitcoin won't put in its peak until 2025. Because if the halving happens in April 2024, as per the calendar here, and blow off tops tend to happen a bit later, then we're actually looking at 2025 for the absolute Bitcoin highs. But Bitcoin tends to perform very well around the halving period as well. So we do see the uptick start to begin post halving. So if you line that up to this cycle, that would be April to May. We're going to talk about a few caveats with it and why this cycle may be different though. But that is essentially how Bitcoin behaves in the midst of Bitcoin halving. And you can see here that Bitcoin has historically been very predictable, aligning to this four -year cycle with new highs occurring shortly after the halving every single time. It's actually a bit less than a year. It was 240 days and 220 days, but that would still put us into the early stages of 2025 if you were to follow the previous cycle. But I guess the major caveat is point number one that we talked about, the spot ETF narrative, and this could drive enough demand for Bitcoin to speed up this halving cycle. So in my opinion, we could actually see a peak earlier if we can affirm we are following the halving cycle due to external catalysts, because not every market is the same. We have seen previous halvings, as I just showed you, for example, 2014, where Bitcoin actually reached its all -time high very quickly after the halving, just 90 days. And the time that Bitcoin takes to peak after the halving has actually diminished in 2021 versus the 2018 cycle. So that was also an interesting thing to note as well. We saw the absolute peak happened to 20 days after, but that first initial peak, if that was to be the all -time high, it would actually be closer to 160 days after. So not quite that full year that some people are anticipating. So 2024 could end up putting in the peak, especially if that spot ETF gets approved. But there is a lot of data based on the current macro cycle I want to get into in a few minutes, which can contextualize it a little bit better. I'm just kind of giving the very basic halving explanation to help you understand where we sit in halving terms. Benjamin Cowen said, during the last three pre -halving years, Bitcoin fell below its bull market support band for August slash September. The purpose of this correction is to flush out as many of the scams and cash grabs prior to the halving. No guarantee it happens this time, but certainly a strong possibility. And that's something I will say, even though we may be in the beginning of a new cycle, and we'll get into more of that evidence later, of course, you still have to take into account that there's still major flush outs. I mean, just look at what happened during the March 2020 crash. Of course, that was a black swan event, but there was a huge flush out and a lot of old coins got wrecked during that period. And we tend to see these flushes for Bitcoin. You could see it happened here in 2016. You could see it happened here in 2020, of course, even in 2019, you see these major flushes that happen even in the lead up to new all -time highs. So don't fade the possibility of getting buying opportunities just because we are in a new cycle. There are still major drawdowns and people panic. And this is where the weak hands get shaken up because they think, Oh my God, we're in a bear market again. Everyone sell, sell, sell. Whereas in reality, it's very normal for Bitcoin to correct the course 20 to 30 % on the run up to a new all -time high. That is very normal price action from Bitcoin. And that is where you do get your really good buying opportunities for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and of course, all coins, which often do get erect, heavier than Bitcoin in the lead up. I just want to reiterate this point about this spot ETF being a major event to keep your eye on on the 1st of September. That's going to be your next major announcement there. I also found this in relation to the halving super interesting. So Delphi Digital, we're going to go into their report in a minute, which looks into where we currently sit in the cycle, posted this photo, which basically shows you where we currently sit in relation to Bitcoin halvings and they can map the Bitcoin price cycle versus the Bitcoin halving date. And you can see here, we see the halving, we see the peak, then we see typically around a two -year bear market. Once again, we had the halving, we saw the peak, then around a two -year bear market. And if that does line up with the current cycle, then you would start to see an uptick now heading into the end of 2023 and early 2024. History doesn't always repeat, but it often rhymes. So this might be a good chart for you to screenshot or something if you just want to contextualize where we sit in terms of the halving. Now, let's get into the next question. Where the hell are we versus previous cycles? And what's next? So there is a lot of macro data, which is now playing into the current cycle. So the cycle doesn't operate in isolation, in my opinion. I don't think the Bitcoin halving is ever the sole reason for a Bitcoin pump. There are other market conditions, for example, quantitative easing last cycle, which contributed. So we want to look at what the contributors are this cycle and try and use some of our knowledge around the cyclical nature of Bitcoin and the business cycle to refer back to where we currently sit. That is how we're going to get the best estimation of where we sit this cycle. And there are a couple really amazing reports I want to break down for you. And it should definitively answer the question in this video, where do we sit versus previous cycles? And it should really help answer that question, what is next for Bitcoin? Before we answer that question, I just want to give a quick shout out to one of our official show partner Smart Decks. It's a very, very cool deck donating the negative effects of impermanent loss with their proprietary adjustment method, meaning LPs no longer need to worry about impermanent loss. And actually, there can be impermanent gain the way that they rebalance their pools. So it's really good for LPs. But what they're also doing is they're using strategies to boost their APYs across a variety of pools. So if you want to look at the LPs right now on Arbitrum, you can see that they're Arbitrum USDC pools paying 24%. Their native token pools are paying almost 100%. And if you go into Polygon, you can see, you know, their MaticUSDC pool, for example, are paying huge percentages, some of the biggest percentages in the market, S 25%, USDC Decks, etc. 93%. So just huge, huge APRs. Now, they are incentivizing this. So people might ask, Miles, why is it a huge API? Is it a Ponzi scheme? No, it's not a Ponzi scheme. It's a normal LP pool that you can deposit liquidity into. Keep custody of your assets just like a normal pool and earn yields on it. But they are incentivizing it with these multipliers, as you can see. So they won't be this high forever. Of course, they're a relatively new index. So they're trying to get TVL onto the platform. So if you want to take advantage of the super high APRs, you can today. But just to make it even sweeter, Banta is doing a one Ethereum giveaway. That's right. An airdrop of one Ethereum every single week to a random stake of that deposits a minimum of $50 of liquidity into the platform. So if you want to win one Ethereum this week, which I'll be giving away on my show on Friday, you have two more days. All you so Polygon, Arbitrum or BNB deposit liquidity into any of their pools. If you don't exposure to their token, you don't need to. You can pick any of the other tokens in these pools. Of course, minimum $50 and then go onto the dashboard, which is linked in the description and enter your wallet address. And you will then enter the running for the one Ethereum giveaway, which will be on my show. Pretty crazy. One Ethereum every single week to valued at around $1 ,800 just for someone that deposits liquidity. So you can literally put $50 of your own money into a pool. You don't win and withdraw. So I mean, do what you want. It probably makes sense to keep the money in. If you're thinking you're earning a good yield risk adjusted, of course, based on your goals. But yeah, if you do want to just get in for the giveaway, nothing stopping you from doing that either, technically. So link in the description to SmartX, the wallet address deposit side, and then also the farming side. Thought I would give a quick shout out to them before we get on with this question. What's next and where do we sit versus the previous cycles? So the first thing I want to talk about is the cyclical nature of Bitcoin. And a lot of people have been asking me like, Miles, what the hell is happening with the market? It's so boring right now. Well, this isn't abnormal for Bitcoin to have a weird August slash September period. What typically happens in August is a lot of the fund managers and the big VCs and the big quants and all these guys, they go around the holidays, especially the Europeans. They go away. They don't trade much. They know the summer period is not very active. So they decide to concentrate their time and liquidity into the months where there is more volatility. So August, typically in crypto, been a pretty boring month. I mean, it's averaged 0 .69%. And it's been one of the most boring months, aka, I'm defining boring as what is closest to 0 % returns. It has been the most boring month, 10 % total return, total return since Bitcoin inception, which is crazy. September, however, is the worst month in crypto. So this is super interesting and it lines up with some of the peaks, sorry, the troughs that Benjamin Cowen was showing just before how a lot of the time Bitcoin falls below its support band heading into September. This does also line up with the data that I've been analyzing about September being the worst month. Actually, the last six Septembers in a row have historically ticked red, typically quite a red month. Now, if this is the case and we affirm that we're in a new cycle, we'll get into that data, then September could be your best DCA buying month if we do end up getting a dip just like previous months. So although it can be scary, this could actually be a big buying opportunity as one of your opportunities to snap up Bitcoin, Ethereum, altcoins, whatever you would like to purchase the next cycle if you can affirm on the way to a new cycle. So be very interesting to see whether September is also a red month. I think it can be a possibility if we do get that delay on September 1st, because if we get delayed again on the ETFs, then the market has less catalysts, especially if liquidity conditions worsen globally, which we're already seeing are starting to happen, especially like the macro in the US looking quite shaky. That could line up with the Bitcoin spot ETF delay and subsequently poor performance in September. So it wouldn't shock me. I can't predict what will happen in September. All we can do is look historically and say, we've got to be prepared here. Don't expect the massive pump to happen in September. But afterwards, well, different story. Bitcoin typically does have very good early Q1 and late Q4 performance, which kind of lines up with this pre -halving run that we have seen in previous cycles as well, right? So that's also quite interesting. So if we also want to look at the stock market, because Bitcoin's very related to the stock market, we could see stocks did have an amazing run up, but have also pulled back and are around 8 % of their highs in the S &P and around 10 % on the NASDAQ. And Bitcoin actually showing similar correlation and uptick in correlation to stocks, although correlation for Bitcoin on aggregate is much lower than it has been in the past. So Bitcoin not responding as much to the stock market as it used to. I still think they're closely tied in. I still think markets are highly cyclical. And we're going to have a look at that just now. But just interesting to note that we have seen that slight uptick after the stock market started to pull backwards. Bitcoin was running on its own, in its own little ETF narrative prior to that. Let's look at this, though. Very interesting. Stocks are also mimicking their price action. It's not just Bitcoin with its halving cycle. It's also the stock market that's closely following its 2015 to 2017 price action, where you have that massive drawdown, then you have the recovery, then another drawdown. And what actually happened to stocks is they rallied into the end of the year. So could we see this September lull and then a rally into the end of the year? Well, if we do follow the pattern from 2015, then that could be the case. But of course, different liquidity environment can't always line it up one to one and assume what happened last cycle will happen this cycle. Okay, guys, this is the best thread that I have ever read this year on Bitcoin cycles. So if you're still paying attention now, 22 minutes into this stream, keep watching because this 5 next minutes or 10 minutes is going to be completely alpha packed. And I'm not even going to break this down. I'm just going to read some of the thread and then give you my thoughts on the thread because of how in depth and amazing this was. So it was written by Kevin Kelly. He is the founder of Delphi Digital. He works closely with their analysts and he basically contextualize where we sit in the cycle. And his work was very good and also very telling of what happened next for Bitcoin. So let's read this. Evidence is piling up that we're in the early stages of a new cycle. Risk assets like stocks plus crypto have been sniffing this out all year. This isn't another bear market rally. Stick with me because it'll come full circle. To outsiders, crypto may look like it lacks rhyme or reason, but crypto markets are actually quite cyclical. They're also surprisingly consistent in their timing between peak to trough bottoms, recovery time and timing of rallies to new cycle tops. Using Bitcoin as a benchmark, a typical cycle looks like this. Bitcoin hits new all -time high, as we've seen many times before, suffers an 80 % drawdown, as has happened every cycle, takes two years to recover to the prior high, as has happened every cycle, and price rallies for another year before reaching the new all -time high. The last three cycles have followed this blueprint almost exactly. Each of these cycles last typically four years. Bitcoin price peaks occur around the same time the ISM, that's the manufacturing index, shows signs of topping out. Active addresses, total transaction volumes, total fees, they all peaked alongside tops in the ISM too. As the business cycle shows signs of recovery, so too does network activity levels. So he's using the price manufacturing index, so that is your synonymous indicator with the business cycle in general, to contextualize that alongside Bitcoin. So he's making the point here that Bitcoin doesn't operate in isolation, it operates alongside the real world US business cycle. And that's also a reason for Bitcoin network usage. In fact, Bitcoin's year -on -year percentage change usually shows signs of a reversal near bottoms. And so far, that is exactly what we've seen. Now, this is the chart that's in the thumbnail of the video, maybe if we, because there's two thumbnail options I'm deciding between, but maybe in the thumbnail of the video, that is probably one of the most telling charts. We can see, typically, Bitcoin price ends up responding around the trough of the ISM. So we saw this crossover happen in 2015 -2016. We saw it happen in the lead up to the 2021 bull run. And then we also are now starting to see it happen again. Every time this line intersects, we start to see recoveries take place. It kind of oscillates between its highs and its lows. If this is the case, then you could affirm that last November, we had the lows set in on the PMI. And consequently, we had the lows set in on Bitcoin as well during the November FTX collapse. That's very interesting. What's also remarkable is how closely the ISM has tracked the trajectory of its prior cycles, including the timings of its peaks and troughs. Every 3 .5 years, it's rinse and repeat like clockwork. You can see it here. Business cycle peak to trough exhibits predictable pattern. You have the peaks, you have the troughs. You have the peaks, you have the troughs. We had a trough. Are we now going to be heading into another peak? Well, history would suggest we are every 3 .5 years. So this is quite interesting because it may give us some evidence that the Bitcoin halving is not just driven by the supply or demand side factors relative to solely Bitcoin. It may also be driven by the overall business cycle. And the reason that we get these pumps is because Bitcoin falls into the overall business cycle alongside its own halving narrative. And that's a powerful combination.
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A highlight from 1214. EU Beats U.S. To Bitcoin ETF SEC Delays Again
"All right so more action on ETFs and the only difference is is now that ETFs are being approved but they're being approved across the pond in the EU we'll break down all that for you guys today what this might mean to the US in terms of an ETF approval and hopefully going forward with Bitcoin and the modern era of finance we'll break all that down for you my name is Paul Baron welcome back and the Tech Path. All right so a couple of things I want to hit on today of course is the news Europe launches its first spot Bitcoin ETF I know that that's a little bit let me kind of zoom in on that from watchaguru I know that's a little bit misleading because there has been ETFs in the EU before this one is a little different I'll explain why there is so it's technically there is a new ETF out there so Jacobi Asset Management lists Europe's first Bitcoin ETF euro on next this of course is the difference let me kind of zoom in on a few things here they implemented a verifiable built -in renewable energy so it's a rec solution which allows institutional investors to access the benefits of Bitcoin also meeting the ESG goals which is a big deal in in the EU trades under the ticker Bitcoin custodial services are provided none other than by Fidelity and all of this is created in collaboration with digital asset platform called Zumo and the Zumo is gonna be interesting because we'll play into that they're a kind of a everything as a service type platform further into the release it's exciting see you're moving ahead of the u .s. opening up Bitcoin unlike other products in the European market which are debt instruments our funds own the underlying asset directly so that's kind of the biggest deal this is the first true ETF that is owning the the asset itself the underlying asset one -to -one so that's the the big point that they're trying to make the Kobe solution differs from carbon offsetting products by quantifying the electricity consumption attributable to Bitcoin in the ETF by purchasing equivalent wrecks and the standardized instrument for procuring clean power so again going back into those ESG requirements that are a big deal in the in the EU so as you look at this and you just wonder you know when will the United States start to actually get into the game EU obviously now scoring what is feels like a two to zero match if you're into soccer and that is with Mika's advancement and now here with a true spot it Bitcoin ETF so along with that and then you've got technology that's starting to play into this Zumo which is the company behind this latest update of Zumo's app is now available on the App Store and the Google Play Store you can trade doing fast transactions you can also do a full what they call infinite control your funds on the blockchain and then you can do some buying and selling over there in etherium and Bitcoin so this gets into how and what will be the next step here in the United States because obviously we already know that we are at the cusp of we hope at the cusp of the SEC actually approving one there's a lot of other things that are playing into this that I think are the political aspect and this is what I talk about a lot is that this has become so much more political than anything what I mean by that is by the SEC actually doing the approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF one thing that is happening is you've got things like this and that is Senator Lummis now filing an amicus brief supporting coin bases dismissal motion against the SEC this would be a big deal because if the SEC or if we get a dismissal on the Coinbase case it would be a pretty big loss for the SEC and already we've started to see this issue facing the SEC as a whole just with what's happening in the ripple case so I think that in the support of what's happening from the lawmaker side of things you can kind of see that the statements here says the constitutional empowers Congress not the SEC to legislate in such an area of profound economical political significance this to me gets into the point that is often under looked and I think that is the political power that is happening globally much like what happened with the EU on filing an ETF for Spock Bitcoin and I think this is now in the case of a lot of lawmakers who have said all right we've had enough we've got to be able to get moves and move forward on this further in this article says also also although the SEC seeks broad authority over crypto assets most legislative proposals in Congress would instead grant much of the authority to other agencies I'm satisfied the SEC seeks to circumvent the political process to commandeer that authority itself this is a senator talking about a government agency in the SEC of course met a lawman who's been on our show many times kind of breaks it down I'll show you his tweet right here it kind of goes into the the brief and what she's arguing let me zoom in on that Congress has not granted the SEC authority so that's number one defined defining the contours of crypto regulation in this country is a job for Congress not the SEC back to the point of where a bipartisan effort of lawmakers is really the goal here because the SEC has kind of taken the reins of what crypto has been about in terms of legislation by enforcement which has been the the biggest knock on the SEC over the past few years SEC's claim that virtually all crypto assets are securities exceeds the securities authority encroaches on Congress's lawmaking and contravenes the separation of power so again very much said and I think this is one thing we've talked about so many times here on the show the key is when is that next step when do we see a potential for this going forward I think the key with this is how many people are starting to support what's happening in the not only the but lawmakers also in support of Coinbase also other organizations out here so you've got crypto lobbyists urged now a court to also dismiss the case and you'll look in total here let me kind of zoom in on that you've got the blockchain Association the crypto council for innovation Chamber of Digital Commerce defy education founder Chamber of Progress consumer tax association and even firms like Andreessen Horowitz which obviously is a huge VC come organization that supports what's happening in blockchain further into this one says this is a no run -of -the -mill run -of -the -mill enforcement case through this case the SEC seeks primary influence over economic political and legal questions under active consideration by Congress and multiple agencies that is the real rub that I think is occurring and it's as I've said many times that this is such a political ploy right now I don't of trying to dominate the conversation and also the actions from a control factor I think it's either it's a controllable grab or there is a political you know substance behind this that's really driving what Gensler's decisions are pushing so a couple other points in here Loomis brief did note each of these bills recognizes that the crypto industry's not fit entirely within the existing securities law and transcends the current statutory powers of the SEC simply stating we know that there's a lot of things here in modern finance and modern you know blockchain technology that is really kind of going outside the ecosystem what how it meaning the investment contract concept of how securities are ruled and governed has changed so Congress is attuned to these important considerations and obviously they're trying to do something about that right now so we do know that all of that is happening right now and it's moving pretty fast now here's John Reed Sartre another attorney out there on and SEC especially securities law he talks a little bit further about this about the the partisanship around this so crypto regs have unfortunately become increasingly partisan at the SEC remember that right now the SEC the governor's or the commissioners at the SEC split pretty much down the red the middle right now a Democratic Republican crypto crackdown began under Republican appointed the SEC chair Clayton fierce and relentless crypto critic if we do see a Republican elected president likelihood is that we'd probably see a potential Republican lead as the Commission now that could be Hester Pierce a Republican all this does play into so it has become very partisan I would agree was was stark on this so it is something to watch for question is whether or not there will be anything of major substance happening between now and when that occurs meaning when we see lawmakers actually shift in that if we do see lawmakers shift in the administration here's a clip right here by Raul Powell kind of breaking down why all of this is happening listen in to this one what he had to say the problem is is US regulation is run by a bunch of baby boomers who only referenced the past like we have to figure out how to deal with AI we have we got a lot of really existentially important things that can't be just shoehorned into something from the 1930s because that's how a boomer wants it to be and other governments are doing it and the US is not whether it's the power of the people or just the politicians are so old now that they'll be replaced by younger people I hope Raul is right you know working in Capitol Hill with lobbyists in the past I've seen the birth of you know kind of this political and governmental heft that just sits in DC and I think crypto and blockchain in general is just like any other great technology moving forward AI will face this as well in terms of regulatory environments and what that might mean because really at the end of the day what we are talking about here is corruption corruption at the highest level we're talking about whose pockets are lined that's why this is slowing down it really is more about who wins and until there is a framework for the right politicians winning it the right way we may not see action and that's the biggest concern and obviously Raul is talking about that is that there's so many other countries that have already stepped into this and moving forward you have John Deaton saying though that there could be a major move here and this could also sway into the fact that we might get more pressure this and this is coming from our court system not from our politicians so be on the lookout today Friday for potential decision this was earlier this should hopefully give crypto even more momentum even though arbitrary capricious is a high and difficult standard mean I've always maintained the SEC will lose if someone fought back regarding a spot Bitcoin ETF he's talking about grayscale so Eric Balcones kind of jumps in very good possible possibility that we learn grayscale SEC outcome tomorrow this was just here end of yesterday we haven't heard it yet as a filming right now so likelihood is we may get an actual case win here and that would really put the SEC in a bad position it would put them in a bad position from a legal standpoint and actually start to put a lot more pressure on them and that's when it gets a little bit unusual because now we're talking about a court that is ruling on this so meaning it's ruling from a court of law as opposed to regulators who are trying to essentially create a pathway for this technology and all these kind of companies to exist so that's the biggest thing I think that's playing out I want to play another clip right here this of course is of Jay Clayton talking about the current status of not only crypto but also Bitcoin listen to what now remember Clayton former SEC chair Gensler's boss used to be and now he's taking a little different listen well look the SEC postponed the decision but they are they are seeking public comment and the landscape for Bitcoin and retail access to Bitcoin has definitely changed and let's just let's just look at where we are today I when I was SEC chair was very skeptical of the Bitcoin trading markets and and whether you believe Bitcoin is going to go to whatever or dry up and go away I think that's no longer the question you know you had Russ Benjamin he was talking about it's clearly a commodity it should be regulated like a commodity we have large retail participation around the globe and people want access to it now what do we have we have very credible financial institutions who have fiduciary duties duties of best interest to their customers who are saying we want to deliver this product and we can do so consistent with those obligations last thing all right so right there you can kind of see he has pivoted his position this is a guy who was a staunch critic of crypto changed completely and he did hit on all the markers there major financial institutions the blockchain itself Bitcoin as a whole not going away likelihood whether you want to treat it as a commodity which I think obviously they will the key here is is that it doesn't it's not really on regulators like the SEC to decide who wins and who loses the markets do that and I think that's the most important thing that he does hit on here on this so for but again that coming from Jay Clayton pretty interesting stuff for sure all right so Bitcoin ETF is now pushing a slice of crypto ETF trading volume which would be around 99 % this of course means simply that though the EU has launched an ETF a true spot ETF the real volume is going to come from the United States this is the big behemoth if you look here there's actually a chart that shows that North America accounts for ninety seven point seven percent of all crypto ETF trading volume if and when a spot ETF comes out in the US it will likely go to ninety nine point five percent so as interesting as the EU is that's why we probably didn't see much of a move on Bitcoin in general it really is all about the United States and I think that's what Raul was getting at is that there is so much power coming out of the United States in terms of investment capacity and what that might mean that the opportunity here is pretty significant so I just think it's one of those things that you have to just be aware of especially as we see both what's happening on the EU and also what's happening obviously here in the United States when it comes to ETF so one thing to be aware of for sure all right so just kind of supporting a little bit of the activity that's occurring right here here's the news on this eagerly awaited Jacobi Bitcoin ETF lukewarm reception on the debut and they're kind of hitting on the whole issue only four transactions this of course happened after its first listing you can kind of see it right here in the listings themselves transactions for so again this just reinforces the whole point that it everything of round bitcoins ETF future is going to set here in the United States it just is going to be the case I want to just a further why this is so important I want to go to this tweet right here and there's a clip I want to play from this but I want to go to the statement here a lot of Bitcoin ETFs have been filed but just black rock is the 800 pound gorilla truly the one why is black rock different it comes down to lobbying power and the connections with the SEC listen in to what he had to say let me play this one for you one of the major narratives driving the last cycle was the institutions are coming those institutions came in small part you know but that promise of the institutions arriving and really diving headfirst in the crypto never quite materialized so that's what's so interesting about our current period which you know we may be in a crypto winter we might be coming out of it but if there are signs that we're coming out of it it's exactly this this institutional investment so black rock for example is the largest asset manager in the world and they just filed a Bitcoin ETF with SEC a lot of Bitcoin ETFs have been filed in the past years but none from an asset manager as high profile and well connected in Washington as black rock as you can see the key here is how much you know power does black rock have well they have an immense amount of power now one thing that our team kind of mentioned on what we were doing this video is what happens if black rock gets an ETF or art gets an ETF and we just don't see any transaction I'm kind of interested in your thoughts do you think we'll see a massive inroad of people going into Bitcoin I believe we will mainly because of the power of the marketing that will come behind this it'll come from arc it'll come from galaxy it'll come from black rock Vanek you name it they're all gonna be competing pretty much at the same time meaning they're gonna spend a lot of money to get out there and educate people and get things going that's why I do think it's gonna pop Bitcoin as a whole for sure all right further on into this just to show you a market Bitcoin ETF approval could help power up the new crypto cycle this is coming in from Bernsten I would talked about him before he hits on a couple of points here leading global asset manager you know is big in Bitcoin spot ETFs probability of this approval has risen we've already talked about that ETF will benefit a strong brand marketing push that's back to my point is that all these financial advisors and all these groups are going to push very hard which is going to elevate the awareness around blockchain of crypto and especially Bitcoin as a whole so new capital is gonna power up the new cycle this will come in from fresh stable coin supply tokenized traditional assets native crypto infrastructure tokenization of ETFs etc all of that plays out and back to the clip that was we just played here by Sam just a second ago with the Forbes writer is you know he is right the last cycle was kind of deemed as this is going to be when institutions come in this is but Black Rock wasn't in the game nor was you know these 15 others that have started to move in that we did not have an ETF being proposed and most likely going to get approved it right on the heels I believe of what happens with Bitcoin none of that was occurring we didn't have regulation in play we didn't have the clarity in the market where we had to go through basically the Wars of FTX is the voyagers the Celsius is seeing what was all done wrong now we have a much more you know aware market we have a much more savvy investor and we have these major organizations starting to step in so I think it is in the right place right now of course we're recording this there's constant news always hitting our research team one of the things that has happened is this tweet right here and that is about Kunis talking about it looks like no grayscale decisions so this has been delayed meaning grayscale trust this is now going to Friday 11 a .m.
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A highlight from The LORD Is Faithful
"Would you please open your Bibles to Acts chapter 13. I'd like to begin reading in verse 13 and read through verse 25. This is a portion, a smaller portion than the actual sermon itself and for time I'm not going to read the whole thing. Again here we are in Acts chapter 13 verse 13 and following. Now Paul and his companions put out to sea from Paphos and came to Perga and Pamphylia. But John left them and returned to Jerusalem. The going on from Perga they arrived at Pisidian Antioch and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down. After the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue official sent to them saying, brethren, if you have any word of exhortation for the people say it. Paul stood up and motioning with his hand said, men of Israel and you who fear God listen. The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt and with an uplifted arm he led them out from it. For a period of about 40 years he put up with them in the wilderness. When he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan he distributed their land as an inheritance all of which took about 450 years. After these things he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet then they asked for a king and God gave them Saul the son of Kish a man of the tribe of Benjamin for 40 years. After he had removed him he raised up David to be their king concerning whom he also testified and said I have found David the son of Jesse a man after my heart who will do all my will. From the descendants of this man according to promise God has brought to Israel a savior Jesus. After John had proclaimed before his coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel and while John was completing his course he kept saying what do you suppose that I am? I am not he but behold one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie. This is the Lord's word would you bow with me and let's again ask the Lord's help. We thank you Father for your scriptures and we thank you for the hymns that we are blessed to be able to sing tonight and for the reading of scripture. Our Father we come to you asking that your spirit will be present with us to help the servant and to help these your people. Those who join who are here in this building but those who will join also from afar. Oh Father we ask that you will advance your kingdom in your glory and I pray that the Lord Jesus will be lifted up faithfully. I humbly ask these things now in Jesus name amen. We are long overdue to be back in the book of Acts here and I've been stewing on this passage for some time as and wondering boy how do you how do you cover this a sermon like this in a in a sense that's intelligible. Here Paul was has preached to the Jews and God -fearing Gentles on his first missionary journey. Recall that he is in Pisidian Antioch which is central region of Galatia and it shouldn't be confused with Antioch from which Barnabas, Saul, and Mark were sent. Mark having deserted them and having gone back to Jerusalem we're told that Paul and Barnabas went on the Sabbath into the synagogue and they sat down and we are told this by Luke after the reading of the law and the prophets the synagogue officials sent to them saying brethren if you have any word of exhortation for the people say it. The Lord here presented a wonderful opportunity for Paul an open door for the gospel.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Darren Beattie Reacts to the Wild Prosecutions Aimed at Trump
"Us now is Darren Beatty from revolver .news. Darren, I have the entire indictment in front of me here against 18 co -conspirators. Darren, your initial reaction. Well, initial reaction is pretty much reinforcing the reaction of the previous now three indictments where we're counting. I fully expect there to be another one, but look, this is, even though it's at the state level, it's part of essentially a conspiracy amongst a weaponized justice department at the both state and federal level for the Democrats to eliminate their most viable political opponent coming into 2024. We're in complete banana boat territory in that respect. Then there's the substantive aspect pertaining to the indictment here, which is a really sort of contortionist approach to conspiracy law whereby we're given this ridiculous theory that tweets of perfectly first amendment speech, protected speech, are now considered to be overt acts of a conspiracy and effectively illegal. Trump tweeting, hey, go watch OAN now, or go watch this hearing about proceeding in Georgia about the election case. Those tweets are illegal. This is sort of an extension of the overall thrust of the previous federal indictment, effectively attempting to criminalize what one might call election denial, to criminalize in effect any public speech that calls into question the legitimacy of the 2020 election. This is very convenient because this in itself is effectively a conspiracy to remove Trump from the chess board in 2024. But in so doing, it also contains precedent preventing people at the pain of criminal punishment for calling into question the very illegal procedures they're using here in order to disenfranchise Trump supporters and criminalize Trump's behavior and take him off the chess board. So there's a lot going on there. It is really yet another escalatory step in the already simply and obnoxious unenable level of political abuse that we see the Justice Department, both at the federal level and here at the local level in Georgia and Polk County.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Good Ranchers' Benjamin Spell Talks About the War on Meat
"This is a super important topic as you've kind of touching on. You look at Bill Gates, the synthetic meat movement. They can control you if they can control the food supply. There's a lot to this from the MRNA shots. I just want to say, I love Good Ranchers. Every one of our Shabbat dinners, we have all of our Good Ranchers meat. We run out of it pretty quick. From the chicken to the cowboy, it's amazing. By the way, riff on this for a second here, Ben. There's this movement to try to get rid of meat in our society. I think it's really damaging. It's not scientific. I think it's trying to create metrosexual beta males that are more subservient to a tyrannical government. We've been demonizing meat and especially cattle for such a long time. The people have kind of just been sitting by silently just letting it happen. We have to stop. The meat is actually good for you. Being a carnivore is what produces testosterone in men. We have to eat meat. It's what makes us men, actually. Just so everyone's clear, we don't know if it's necessarily only because of this, but testosterone rates are down like 80 % from where they were 30 or 40 years ago. The average male in his 20s or 30s has a 280 to 350 free testosterone rate where it should be between 750 and 900, just looking at the spectrum. No one wants to talk about this. If you go to Seattle and Portland, you can see it. The men are basically feminized women. I'm not saying that eating meat will solve all the problems, but it certainly won't hurt. They're also trying to get rid of meat because of climate change, too. As of January of this year, there's a little over 28 cattle million in the U .S. raised for beef. 200 years ago, there were over 60 million bison roman. My point is there were 60 million bison roman freely and there was no climate change issues. We only have half of that raised for beef in the U .S. right now. Like I said, there's just this demonization of beef. For some reason, the U .S. beef gets it worse than I don't know, places like China.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Former Pastor Turned Meat Entrepreneur Exposes the Shocking Truth
"Have a special guest in studio which fits with a lot of the macro trends and especially what we're seeing in happening in Hawaii and just the food supply. Ben Spell is with us. Ben, I don't know if you've ever been on the program, but welcome back to Phoenix. Yeah, glad to be here. Thanks for having me. You are running a really important company called Good Ranchers, one of my favorite companies. I love meat, I don't eat any carbohydrates basically, just proteins and fats. You guys have the highest quality meat and you personally, former pastor, right? We see the world the same way. Just riff on your company, it's great, goodranchers .com. Yeah, like you said, I was a former pastor just about six years ago and my wife and I had been kind of talking about transitioning and literally just heard God's voice one morning, go and start a meat company. We talked about it, prayed about it, and felt that was what we were supposed to do with no knowledge of agriculture or entrepreneurship or anything. So we set out and we sold everything we had and just put our money into doing that. We just had our firstborn little boy and that was in 2017. We started in 2018 and God just blessed us right from the beginning and we had no idea what we were doing, but thankfully God had a plan for us. Then we realized right as we got into 2020, so 2018, 2019, we had two decently successful years. When we started, it was me selling meat in a parking lot in the truck. That's what I was doing. What we realized as we started getting some buying power and started purchasing more, that almost everything we were buying at that time was coming from Mexico, coming from South America. People don't know that it's foreign -sourced meat repurposed as American meat when you go to your local grocery store. Everything had a USDA stamp on it and all this. As we started looking into it, we realized, oh wow, there's actually no country of origin labeling law for beef or pork in the US. It got quietly repealed in 2015. Prior to 2015, you had to have a country of origin labeling stamp for beef and for pork. It just quietly just went away. Now, over 3 billion pounds of beef gets imported into the US every year. It's being sold in the grocery stores. It's being sold online. Consumers don't know. People think that because they're buying meat at their grocery store or their local butcher or buying it online from an American company, you just assume that you would meat be getting that's coming from American farms. It's just not the case. When we found that out, we drew a line in the sand. Like I said, this was early 2020. We drew a line in the sand and said, you know what? We are only going to source from American farms and ranches, which we actually found out is harder than you would think. We set out on that journey. That's when we started talking about
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The Cowards Who Lead the GOP with Darren Beattie and Benjamin Spell
"Hey everybody, it's Anna Charlie Kirk Show. Darren Beatty joins us to react to the Georgia indictments, and when we talk about food, goodranchers .com, promo code KIRK, you're gonna love this. Stop eating that vegan garbage, that fake meat, get back to real meat, good ranchers, really good people, Christian conservatives, buy a box of meat, try it for yourself, new and improved. goodranchers .com, promo code KIRK, goodranchers .com, promo code KIRK. Get involved with the most important organization in America, tpusa .com, that is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody, here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie, he's an incredible guy, his spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here.
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Monitor Show 06:00 08-07-2023 06:00
"1 % gain and Nasdaq futures are higher by about a half percent now up 80 points ten -year Treasuries down 17 30 seconds for a yield now of four point one zero percent up next we'll get the latest on Israel's judicial Overhaul as the prime minister softening his stance plus former President Trump's attorney lays out his January 6 case in the court of public opinion Our two of Bloomberg Daybreak starts right now Broadcasting 24 hours a day at Bloomberg .com and the Bloomberg Business Act. This is Bloomberg radio From the Bloomberg Interactive Brokers studios This is Bloomberg Daybreak for Monday August 7 coming up today Israel backs away from a complete judicial overhaul Bloomberg speaks exclusively with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a new poll shows Americans still feel Donald Trump acted illegally To stay in office Fed officials appear divided on future rate hikes and word of a cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg Surfaces again the January 6 special counsel requests the protective order against Donald Trump the social media Influencer charged with inciting the riot in Union Square. I'm John Tucker those stories straight ahead I'm John Stash Aaron towards the Yankees lost to Houston the Mets shut out in Baltimore the u .s.
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Monitor Show 00:00 08-07-2023 00:00
"Investment Advisors switch to interactive brokers for lowest cost global trading and turnkey custody solutions. No ticket charges and no conflicts of your interests at ibkr .com slash ria. In addition to Bloomberg Wall Street Week, if you missed any part of today's program, you can listen on demand with our Wall Street Week podcast. Find that on Apple, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts. I'm David Weston. Stay with us. Today's top stories and global business headlines are coming up right now. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells Bloomberg he will not pursue the entire judicial overall originally planned by his government, but he will try to change the makeup of the judge selection committee. I'm still going to give it several months to try to get another consensus. What is it? It would probably be about the composition of the committee that elects judges. I don't think we should move from one extreme where we have perhaps the most activist judicial court on the planet to get it to a point where the legislature or Knesset can just knock out any decision that the court makes. There has to be a balance. That's what we're trying to restore. The exclusive interview comes after months of protests across Israel and volatility on the nation's financial markets. The full conversation with Netanyahu is coming up shortly. Asian stocks are flat at the start of the trading week following mixed signals from Friday's U .S. jobs report.
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"benjamin" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Larry, one thing that you and I have not talked about, I don't believe, is Israel. And Benjamin mitten now is new government over in Israel. There are a lot of political and legal issues involved, but there are also some economic issues, as you know, a number of U.S. economists. I don't think we're involved. Wrote a letter, really expressing concern about some of the proposed changes in the judiciary. What that could mean for the Israeli economy. I was a little surprised to see your name came up, actually, and the times of Israel as having talked to the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. What do you want to tell us about what they're doing over there? So David, I don't talk about my conversations with government officials as you know. But I have been following this issue closely. And I think the temperature has to come down on both sides. I think there is a case for strong case for judicial reform in Israel. It's unusual by international standards for judges to be chosen by currently sitting judges. It's unusual for courts to be able to rule out legislation simply by judging that it's unreasonable without having a constitution to point to. On the other hand, it's very clear from the context of the way this is being done. That it is feeling to a large number of people and a large number of people with the capacity to move their money in and out of Israel, particularly in the entrepreneurial community that an overly rapid not carefully done judicial reform could raise serious and profound questions about the rule of law. And that it seems to me could have quite serious adverse effects on the Israeli economy
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"benjamin" Discussed on Making Podcasts Great Again
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Making Podcasts Great Again
"benjamin" Discussed on Making Podcasts Great Again
"Okay, that's right, we call you a tech stuff and not Intel guy because you always have the wrong information. Okay. He is my wife, who I acknowledge on this beautiful day of. National single parenting. It's her son. It's her son. And she walks in and she says, have you wished Donald have you wished happy birthday to my son? Brendan. And I said, who the hell is that? I don't know. I don't know who that is. And she brings them in in a 7 foot, there's 7 foot blond weirdo walks in. And she says, it is his birthday and I go, well, you know, if you know what they say, happy wife, happy life. They say I'm happy life because you shouldn't have a wife. You don't know the saying. I don't know that saying. Okay, well, that's the saying. And so I thought, you know, I throw a party for this Billy Billy Trump. It's so funny. I can't believe she had a kid with somebody named Trump. That this kid has the name Trump. It's like, what are the odds? And so I said being nice and being that it was desperate parent day. I said, okay, I'll throw a nice party for your son. Both are let me, and she said, thank you so much lord. So we had a party, but no, no, you said my son. No, this is marshmallow. So there's no relation to you. No, I mean, Asia is a tall drink of water. And he walks around all the time with mashed potatoes. So I said, okay, mashed potatoes will have a party for your toes. And what was this party like? Oh well, you know, it was 16 as you may know, is a very important age. Obviously, if he was a girl, if Barton was Belinda, how about that? That sounds sad. But then the party would obviously be a very different theme. You know what I'm saying? I would say, I would say, Belinda, you know, we're not actually blood related. And in Florida, an age of consent, according to my late great friend Jeff Epstein is 11, so you are more than you are more than enough woman for this still president. But he's a young man. And so it's at 16, as you know, I think Eric Kushner, 16 is when you have a vertical. Bar mitzvah. Well, it pronounced it however you want to pronounce it, but you have a Bolivia. You know, the Jewish tradition, you have a Bolivia, and it's a big party, and you have rappers, if you're rich enough, you have rappers sing, and that's a great time. So, but he's not Jewish. He's transylvanian, like his mother. Me and my. And so we had, you know, we did a mix because 16, as I sort of get kind of a kid, but you're becoming a man. I think you'd agree. Should have so we had John rocker, you know, because kids are like athletes..
Life is Short with Justin Long
"benjamin" Discussed on Life is Short with Justin Long
"Version of it kept escalating. And then finally i was taken out by security and brought to the desk. And that's when i just sort of you you finally like The security came into the bathroom. They found me they would. They were after me. Was there like a little trail. Like i said i was like running around like. Yeah so harry to try and find a bathroom. I like found a bathroom. Lake up half set of stairs wasn't there was like by the banquet to them. Must've seemed like i was like hi like from them. Oh yeah in their defense. It must have been a very like suspicious looking totally straight like literally an insane person came uncovering diarrhea. And we've got arrest him stan. Jackie earle haley came to end the story. That was really good. Because i got a celebrity cameo into the how how is he. He came into the law because he knows and he was drunk. No i have no problem with that. But he was really. He came after partying or a drunk and he. I think had like just wanted. He lost his key like me. Yeah thank you. And then he blurted out like what the like. Hallways 'cause it stunk. And right because i was like having a conversation with the desk clerk shoes like you know kinda have like john was face with like we are role health. You will you rome. Were you laughing. You apologize what without point. I was sort of like this has just been so awful. I just i just want to kick you. Please like me to shower. Yeah and just and if you want like you you can wash me. I am to maybe the you have no shame anymore to me. I was just like just stripped down. Put lime on me just a prison. Style. exactly yeah. Hose me got me to the room with the drain and jackie. Have you seen jackie early. Haley since adult. I don't even think i. I didn't meet him that night but i i knew who was. Oh my god. I'm dying now to ask him his perspective of this He's got him. I- oddly got had some drinks with. I'm okay but i asked him to do the show and he was like. Oh yeah you seemed like into it or he was being polite cool So i would die now..
Life is Short with Justin Long
"benjamin" Discussed on Life is Short with Justin Long
"Yeah back there and told the valet like health like the fact you imagine. Hug him and say i need help. Like here's is two hundred dollars. But i didn't do that and so it made it worse and worse along the way and by the end i had like now. They're right that bathroom visits is asking the h john bathroom. They also they had the top the towels and not paper. Oh yes so. At least it wasn't an air dry. I'm what and and the cloth like oh hamper so it w even made it worse. Because i'm just throwing like shit covered in their hamper. I suppose like in the morning if if they hadn't discovering they would've been like it was like some awful parent just cleaned up their kid and dumped it. All in the right. They wouldn't be able to tell there was adult diarrhea. Yes i was going to throw my shorts out. But i forgot my backpack right. You would have walked out that then at that point i was just like Right just ask for robe did yeah i remember. I got locked myself out of my hotel room in toronto naked fully naked. And i just. I just had my i had to face the door. Cupping my genitals and fortunately a house assert has cleaner person came i. It was like four or five in the more..
My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"benjamin" Discussed on My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"I'm gonna join the community right now. Gimme like thirty more seconds. The island automatically get you all that value. So i'm going to take a minute and introduce you to the audience. So dr benjamin. Ritter is a leadership and career coach values geek regional learning manager for young presidents organization why peo- national speaker podcast officer mentor and his passionate about guiding others in finding creating and sustaining a career. They love from empowering young professionals to get unstuck the guiding senior leadership on how to stand out from the competition and develop executive presence. Ben is an expert in his field and will guide you toward truly living for.
Chatter that Matters
"benjamin" Discussed on Chatter that Matters
"Heart radiates with gratefulness. Benjamin you piers have gift to you. With the highest honors did teach all over the world but you most deeply care about his mother nature the nature. The humans will live in your space. You're offered a partnership. But one of the most prestigious architect firms in england. But you came back to costa rica because your dad was sick. We were talking last night and you talked about how different you to were terms. You your approach to architecture that bring you together or that pull you apart. The relationship with my father is is is incredibly different than with my mother with my father. I saw authority in authority. I saw order. I saw cleanliness. I saw other things. i think. Architects sometimes Are human beings that want to give order to the world to the chaos of the world. Also this idea that of humility that architects are not here just to to engulf their ego. But actually we're here because we serve a purpose for other human beings that all comes from him and we are we are always been very aligned in the in that however how that materializes in the real world how that is constructed threw bricks and mortar. That's where we differ a lot. Why because the architecture that i started exploring is an architecture of extreme innis of extreme connection to the outside and for him. That was too much going to further. Because you need a level of comfort you link to be inside. He there's a storm or whatever. You can't be outdoors all the time so we were always pushing in different directions. It's pushing more for in interior architecture. And i was pushing more for the external connection of architecture. I think also because we're different moments in life so you can imagine he's in his sixties and i in my twenties and thirties and we're looking at live at a complete for moment of he more going in like you know being more and more protected and i am like i want to get out there and i wanna be field the in my face and i wanna feel the rain droplets all that currently where i am now. I'm starting to find a good a good middle point. A good middle point of architecture where human beings can enjoy the natural world at the same time. Have the comforts of the twenty first century and have a balanced design strategy where we can achieve boats of mother. Nature was had the ability to talk to. She does talk to him but she had the ability to talk. What would she say about. Benjamin in terms of the buildings you're creating within the beauty that mother nature provides a mother. Nature is us. We are part of it. We are an equal part of the ecosystem. We're not separate from it. I know that we are creating You know spaces are incredibly clinical. We're separating ourselves from the messiness and the dirtiness of the of the world but actually is my intention is to to To create architecture. That is maybe even a little bit dirty. Maybe even little bit rough so that we are confronted with who we really are tastic. so what's next year age forty. You're going to put a dent in the universe you already are. What's the next ten or twenty years and are you still in step with erica. And you still selling each other's dreams. Yes erica and i came back to costa rica because we believe that costa rica is poised in the world to be able to be a testing ground for ideas that the deal with the modern world collapsing with and the more primal aspect of human habitation. So this is the testing ground. I actually believe that. I'm a baby in terms of architecture that they're so much more than i need to learn about architecture every project that we take on is an opportunity to explore and to learn and once you feel that you're learning everyday day that you that you are exploring things every day you're going somewhere there's a level of purpose a liberal meaning. There's a level of knowing that what you're doing is what you should be doing. How can people find out more about who you are and the work you do. We have an instagram and studios which we are starting to work more and more not as a necessarily a marketing tool because we don't necessarily clients or instagram. Or anything like that. But we're using social media to try and spread the word that we're using our website studio sacks calm. I think we're trying to take videos. We're trying to take imagery. We're trying to right and also give lectures. All these are are helping us to communicate these ideas and hopefully others can get inspired and and yes and we can have a bigger impact on my final question. If you had to pick one of these two choices one you get another international award or two you see a client being able to look up at accounancy a moon and smile which is more important one hundred percent human beings and their experience and their their quality of live is my main goal in life that would give me satisfaction and i would say for two for any architecture student hearing this right now. That's the goal in life. I'm sure you're going to be happy. You're gonna have a positive impact on other human beings. You're going to see them smile. You're going to see their lives. Change their Their businesses change and the positive impact. You can have on them is the best thing you can ever feel. And that's what's probably going to give success success to others your peers. Gave you a pat on the back or not doesn't really matter anymore. If you have that confidence and that knowledge that what you're doing is the best you can. That's all you really need that confidence and self esteem building up the self-esteem i think is very important. I always end with three things. I learned today. The first thing that i admire most about. You is when you were in that slum as a child you already there started framing how you wanted to live your life. You weren't prepared to accept those circumstances you wanted to find a partner for life. You wanted to do things you wanted to make a difference and then when you go from being a popper to the lap of luxury the the proper and prince fairytale you started apply yourself and your creativity and performance arts painting and architecture and then today where your debt knapsack has got such incredible yin yang zig and zag highs the lows and fused it together. Even with talking about your dad. You're always find this incredible middle where you draw on the strength of everything that's happened to you to be a better person. Make a better planet. It's an honor to absolutely have you on chatter matters. Thank you benjamin sacks thank you for having me and if i can say one last thing is that everything that happens wrong or bad happens for a reason and we have to either take it. Take it in the right way or the wrong. We can make that decision at every point. Had many other things happen. That i'm sure all of us hearing this. We have so much has happened to us and we all have our stories. But it's about how we take those in. How do we react in those moments. How that shape. We can either continue living and we continue living. We're going to make that decision. We're gonna be here then. Let's make the most out of it. Wonderful and wise words of advice courage you to download the podcast and i certainly will listen to it over and over again. So thank you for sharing all the guests that era gifted with thank you..
Chatter that Matters
"benjamin" Discussed on Chatter that Matters
"Mike. Yesterday's a world renowned architect. He's a renaissance man who fuses together. The creativity of the painter was a pragmatist and in the pace of engineer. He's in a costume conversation with nature. Benjamin sacks welcome to chatted at matters. Thank you for having me I'm so glad to be able to share my story with you today. Benjamin we're going to get to your career later. Studied in costa rica highly respected rhode island school of design. When you went to england one one of the top awards in the world for architecture offered a partner returned to costa rica. i want you to. I share your early days on this planet. When you're only thought was about safety and survival not following a path to purpose in pursuit. Well i think that we are shaped by key moments in our lives and for me the first years of my life where pivotal do what. I what i am now. Of course we are all shaped by those first years in my case They were tough tough. Because because my mother was a single mother and She was going through a very rough patch and that rough patch her go into drugs alcohol and live a very very difficult life with no means to be able to take care of a baby or a child so i was born into that circumstance into that world and i had to. I had to survive. I had to make it through there. Were moments where. I believed that the we're not gonna make it in terms of food in terms of literally just making through the day. And in time. I had to become the adult the grownup i had to mature very quickly to be able to make sure that we were going to eat that. Make sure that we are going to move forward so this all happened in what would would. We was sort of slum in the city of san jose most of my friends Defense choose I might. I was the only one we shoes i remember at some point. I had nothing to eat so a lot of Of their of people would just give me food as well and we would play on the streets and a little bit wild and sometimes. I didn't even know that i was wild or that i had nothing i just was and it was only at some point when i had nothing to eat that i realized the situation was not appropriate. Thinking back playing in the street as a kid and then you have to come home and when you do you often find your mom in this. Drug addicted state. What was that like. Yes i guess because because she was in that crazy world of of rock and roll and and drugs and all that we were living in a very precarious situation and everybody around as well so living in that situation forced me to be outside all day long. I didn't wanna be inside. I don't know hot hot house and So i was out on the streets all day long just playing playing what i thought was playing and also making it through She would come home after two weeks being away. Imagine imagine at know a four year old being alone for four zero four. Several weeks just having to see you know how to how to survive so that was the case for me. Sometimes she would come back she. Sometimes she wouldn't. And i had to just make it through and all of a sudden. It became the norm. It became the norm. That i had to grow up very quickly and may in survive is the good thing. Is that costa rica and is a place where there's a lot of people that are benevolent. As well. there's a lot of beauty in a lot of Love as well in people here so even though i was in a dire situation there's always key moments ski people Beautiful people that would take care of me and that will push me through in all of them What part of this journey did you ever get. A good night's sleep for me. The realization of my situation was not necessarily apparent. So i would say i would be wasn't my worry was more for my mother. None as early for the physical circumstances hours in it was more a psychological thing morris about sensibility. Not necessarily about comfort. So comfort was okay. Because i was used to it. It's not a problem at all. It was more about caring and thinking of this other human being a loving that other human being instinctively. That was what kept me awake. What worried me. Can you imagine a kid. I know Probably people hearing this. Some of you have gone through. Similar things are different points of your life. It's interesting to go through that. Such an early age it forces one to think about life in a different way at a very young age. Benjamin you're young kid and your and your mom disappears sometimes for a week or two g ever wonder if she gonna return as you're gonna come back to and which does return does she bring back strangers. My mother certainly would bring men into her house a man that i didn't know and would stay for some days and they were in there. Were different than many. And it's at cetera. I i was not judgmental. I thought that if that gave her Piece or that would give a happiness. That was fine so It was not big issue for me. It was more that she was all over the place and that she couldn't find yourself am again. These are all issues that one can see somebody else that you really love and you start taking those lessons to yourself. I was already very little. And i was thinking what i want. I don't wanna be with a thousand partners. I don't wanna be testing a million partners. When i grow up. I wanna be with one person. I wanna be with one person for the long run. I don't wanna be changing so that all shape me my the you might view of life how what i wanted. I wanted security. i wanted look jeopardy. I want a relationship. I wanted a stability all these things that i didn't have started yearning for at a very young age and would say to myself. This is what i'm going to have in the future. And hopefully when i have it i can give it back to her and so already thinking that i was gonna take care of her out very young pitcher six years old. When you're thinking this yes that's that's why some when we look when i look at a child in orono four six a five year old i can see that they have such capability for maturity for understanding. Well like we don't we in. This is something that even that. I have been thinking a lot about that. Children are much more than we think they get understanding perceive and they can they can they can see the world in a in a in a way that will surprise all of us and i think if the that awareness of children of adults about the per about the perception of children or the capability of children.
Harvard Classics
"benjamin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"The autobiography of benjamin franklin by benjamin franklin but this affair having turned my thoughts to marriage i looked round me and made overtures acquaintance and other places but soon found that the business of a printer being generally thought a poor one. I was not to expect money with a wife and less with such a one as i should not. Otherwise think agreeable. A friendly correspondence says neighbors and old acquaintances had continued between me. And mrs read's family who all had a regard for me from the time of my first lodging in their house. I was often invited there and consulted in their affairs wherein i sometimes was of surface..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"benjamin" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Benjamin Wynne. He's in L. A based producer and composer, and that's called the overview effect from his album called Thorn in two Somewhere underneath. All of that highly Elektronik. Processing and distortion are the sounds of woodwinds and brass instruments. The musical didna that Daryl was working with On this edition of new sounds. We're hearing musicians using distortion and processing and other effects to kind of mask work dramatically change the sound of Of their source. Material up. Next is AH Piece by Simon German spelled J. E. R. M Y. N and his band called Spirit Spout the title that he took from Moby Dick. The album, also called Spirits about features A lot of New York musicians, the drummer Jim Black, the guitarist and synth player, David Crowell from the band Imperial Atlas Jo brand support from the band cellar and point also playing synthesizers. And a couple of other Irish musicians Linda Buckley, the vocalist and composer, and on this piece, you'll hear the voice of air Lola Nard, the great Shawn No singer from Ireland, who's now based in New Jersey. And when he sings in Irish, it's pretty clear, But the rest of what's going on is by no means clear. There is this kind of haze of processing over the sounds of the guitars, the bass and the keyboards. From from the band Spirit spout. We'll follow that with music by Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore. Meg has been on our program before. As a member of the band s Spurs kind of psychedelic folk band from Philadelphia on does numerous other things, most of them folk based And Mary Lattimore, Also originally from Philadelphia, is ah Harp player whose music often involves extended improvisational techniques and electronic processing and stuff like that. So in their song damaged sunset, You can pretty clearly here Meg Baird singing and playing the guitar. But then again, there's this hazy background, this atmosphere that she's playing within. Which is created by the harpist Marry Latimore. You would be very, very hard pressed to be able to identify the harp as the sound source in that piece that will follow this music from the ensemble known as Spirit spout..
KQED Radio
"benjamin" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Two years ago, I was sitting in my graphics in design class, and there was an anonymous death threat using the N word. There was no investigation whatsoever. Black people, we internalized these things, you know? Does my life really matter to my school or my community or my county? Who doesn't even want to look into these threats when you even look at how teachers interact with students of color versus white students? Um, when a teacher comes up to you, and you respond in a manner that might not be cheerful or might not be what they want to hear, it's automatically. Oh, you have an attitude and I've experienced this. I'm not even that terrible person like you know me. I don't. I don't even have that type of attitude. And so when I get that it's kind of like, whoa! But then each time It kind of becomes less and less like a world because it is a pattern. It's so familiar. Oh, if I'm not smiling, I'm going to be taken as an angry black woman. We have parents come forward. We have actual students come forward. We have picture evidence. We have recordings. We have everything saying Hey, way have a problem here, But the county comes back to us, and they're like, No, we've had training on that. No, that's not happening. You're not gonna make me think I'm crazy because I know what I feel. And I know what I see every day. There's this quote by Benjamin Franklin that says that justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are just as outraged as those who are so sometimes when I'm the only black person in a classroom that has to speak on issues that are particularly challenging or things that make me or other people feel uncomfortable. It keeps me going because I know that these conversations are important and it pushes me to challenge not only myself of my peers. To talk about these things. The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the problem. Even if it may not be you or your people group. You have to take a step back. Look in and see that something is wrong. Once you've learned about the issue, you're going to take that knowledge and in light and others you're gonna open their eyes to something that may not even be a parent to them. So once you've done all those three things you yourself have created a vessel for change. You are a catalyst that will lead to a greater future for those coming after us. My family has lived in Georgia for generations. We have directly been affected by the institution off slavery. And so I see a people, especially in my family that is strong and people who want to fight for change and to keep moving forward. I use that to inspire myself to keep creating change because it can be done. My name is Audrey MacNeill. My name is Sheldon Walker. And this is my brief but spectacular take on acknowledging that there is a problem. Two strong young women..
Harvard Classics
"benjamin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"His grandson samuel franklin now lives in boston he left behind him two quarto volumes s of his own poetry consisting of little occasional pieces addressed to his friends and relations of which the following sent to me as a specimen footnote. The specimen is not in the manuscript of the autobiography. He had formed a shorthand of his own. He taught me but never practicing it. I have now forgot it. I was named after this uncle there. Being a particular between him and my father he was very pious. A great attender of sermons of the best preachers which he took the down in his shorthand and had with him many volumes of them. He was also much of a politician too much perhaps for his station there fell lately into my hands in london a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets relating to public affairs from sixteen forty one to seventeen seventeen. Many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering. but they're still remain eight volumes in folio and twenty four in corto and in october a dealer in old books met with them and knowing me by my sometimes buying of him he brought them to me. It seems my uncle must have left them here when he went to america which was about fifty years. Since there are many of his notes in the margins this obscure family of ours was in the reformation and continued protestants through the reign of queen. Mary when they were sometimes endanger of trouble on account of their zeal potpourri. They had got an english bible and to conceal and secure it. It was fastened open with tapes under and within the cover of a joint stool when my great great grandfather read it to his family. He turned up the joint stool upon his knees turning over the leaves. Then under the tapes one of the children's stood at the door to give notice if he saw the parashar coming who was an officer of the spiritual court and that case the stool was turned down again upon its feet wherein the bible remained concealed under it as before this anecdote. I had from my uncle benjamin. The family continued all of the church of england. Tell about to the end of charles. The seconds rain when some of the ministers the had been outed for conformity holding convertibles northamptonshire benjamin and at here to them and so continued all their lives. the rest of the family remained with the episcopal. Church footnote conventis secret gatherings of dissenters from the established. Church does area for other married young and carried his wife with three children into new england about sixteen eighty two. They invented goals having been forbidden by law and frequently disturbed induced some considerable men of his acquaintance to remove to that country and he was prevailed with to accompany them feather where they expected to enjoy their mode of religion with freedom by the same wife. He had four children more born there and buy a second wife ten more in all seventeen of which i remember thirteen sitting at one time at his table. Who all grew up to be men and women and married. I was the youngest son and the youngest child but to and was born in boston..
Harvard Classics
"benjamin" Discussed on Harvard Classics
"Now lord of the manor there. My grandfather had four sons that grew up namely thomas. John benjamin and josaia. I will give you what account i can of them as this distance from my papers. And if these are not lost in my absence you will among them find many more particulars. Thomas was bred a smith under his father but being ingenious and encouraged in learning as all my brothers were by an esquire palmer then the principal gentlemen in that parish. He qualified himself for the business of scrivener. Became a considerable man in the county was a chief mover of all public spirited undertakings for the county or town of northampton and his own village of which many instances were related of him and much taken note of of and patronized by the then lord halifax he died in seventeen o two january six old style just four years to a day before i was born. Footnote january seventeen new style. This change in the calendar was made in fifteen eighty two by pope gregory thirteen and adopted in england in seventeen fifty to every year. Whose number in the common reckoning since christ is not divisible by four as well as every year whose number is divisible by one hundred but not by four hundred shall have three hundred and sixty five days and all other years shall have three hundred and sixty six days in the eighteenth century. There was a difference of eleven days between the old and the new style of reckoning which the english parliament cancelled by making the third of september. Seventeen fifty to the fourteenth. The julian calendar or old style is still retained in russia and greece whose dates consequently are now thirteen days. Behind those of other christian countries the account we received of his life and character from some old people at acton. I remember struck you as something extraordinary from its similarity to what you knew of mine. Had he died on the same day you said one might have supposed a trans-migration john was bred a dire. I believe of woolens. Benjamin was bred a silk dyer serving an apprenticeship at london. He was an ingenious man. I remember him well for when i was a boy. He came over to my father in boston and lived in the house with us some years he lived to a great age..
Crimeatorium
"benjamin" Discussed on Crimeatorium
"Burning and decaying of his skin. The judge rejected the defense of mental illness. The trial lasted three days. The judge took a ten minute break and found sergeant guilty of first degree murder. The judge also admonished sergeant saying he acted in a heinous and brutal way when he neglected to feed bathe or change benjamin. He was sentenced that following june. Two one hundred years in prison. Sergeant didn't react when the verdict was handed down. Herman's trial was scheduled to begin in august of that year but she opted to plead guilty at the plea bargaining. She stated in a barely audible voice that she made a disastrous mistake by allowing benjamin to go without food or water or a diaper change. She apologize to the courtroom and stated that the fifty years she was getting for his death would bring justice to benjamin she will serve one hundred percent of her sentence making her seventy two when she gets released. One more bit of information that came out at this hearing was that herman had been warned. Not to leave. Benjamin with sergeant. The death penalty was taken off the table due to both of the defendant's mental health issues. Thank you for watching this episode. Remember to subscribe and hit the notification button..
My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"benjamin" Discussed on My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"Oh yeah they don't know it's was only one hundred dollars but nothing. Yeah i've tripled my money on it all right so based on what you learn from this story and what you continue to learn one action. Would you recommend this take to avoid suffering the same fate. I honestly think that people need to the end of the day. In addition to your research is just go with your out right. A lot of the time provided that you don't go with random got feeling right but if you got his telling you to do something and you've done your homework to support supported it's oftentimes with people. Don't listen to that. Got that they have the biggest regret. So if you've got gotta fundamentally pushing you in a direction to make a decision take a position on something. Go short on something whatever it might be. Follow your instinct and follow your gut and only time. Can you work out if you got his right or wrong. And that's part of it. People are trying to evaluate their imaginary gun right the got. That should've would've could've what you need to do. Is the guy that actually took a position. And then you can start to have a lot more confidence around yourself your capabilities and again. You're not gonna get everything right but going with your gut learning to explore the way you think and react to. Things is a very important part of becoming an investor. And i think everyone needs to experience that including the highs and lows because it teaches you things along the way so i think being in the game and yarn with your is absolutely critical. Boom all right last question. What's your number one goal for the next twelve months for me love to continue to build and scale my business. I run my own consulting firm minutes. We've we've had a very good twenty twenty thankfully and i want to ensure that momentum continues into what is going to be. I guess a bit of a precarious. Twenty twenty one. A lot of people don't know what is going to happen. But i think beyond that there are some other things i really wanted to get back on stage and do some more touring for comedy. I really really really miss it. I did a show last week. And i had been off stage for months and then i came back. And you had the pre show jitters nerves because it had been so long than the second. I grabbed the microphone. And i wrote to that packed room in the spotlights were on. There was just this muscle. Memory that clicked back in. And as i saw to deliver in the crowds reacting. I thought gosh this is really a part of me. I cannot let this go cannot forget about it. So that's definitely something. I want to focus on the final thing is. I'm writing a book. And i've spoken about this before they have to finish the damn book so i really need to get to the point where i the time energy and effort to allocate a bit of time every week to get that done and get it out smock it because i think it'll be a great and very fun read. Well ladies and gentlemen look for benjamin on the stage or in amazon or at his company and just so that the listener listener said that they were considering. they're looking for help or support from a company like yours. What would be the the number one thing that you do or can help with for a company out there. That's struggling in one way or another okay so for us. It looked utah to summarize in one sentence but we are a strategic consultancy. So for those people you think. Mckinsey boston consulting all of that way too. Expensive they I've heard many stories commensurate with their feed. They don't add the value that we were seeing where the alternative we bump heads directly with these firms if you're looking for genuine advice particularly in financial services and fintech varied.
My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"benjamin" Discussed on My Worst Investment Ever Podcast
"A senior advisor to many leading startups in the region. He was previously the head of strategy for deutsche bank's equities business in asia pacific and its investment bank in greater china. He has also worked at ubs oliver wineman and he wc. Benjamin take a moment and feeling for tidbits about your life..
KLIF 570 AM
"benjamin" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
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