Introduces topic: Bitcoin's outperformance over the past week.
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Anthony Pompliano
Bitcoin is a resilient asset serving as global insurance, attracting capital during chaos. Young people and rising institutional managers will continue to add it to portfolios.
Contrasts Bitcoin's performance with gold's poor performance over the past week.
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Anthony Pompliano
Most selling in Bitcoin and buying in gold has already occurred, leading to divergence. Bitcoin is a 10x better asset than gold due to divisibility, mobility, and resilience, evidenced by rapid ETF adoption.
Asks if recent events (Operation Epic Fury) mark an inflection point for Bitcoin shifting from a 'risk-on' asset to a store of value.
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Anthony Pompliano
The big misunderstanding is on inflation. The structural risk for the US economy is deflation, not inflation, driven by tariffs, deportations, AI, and robotics.
Anthony Pompliano
The recent oil price spike (Operation Epic Fury) is a short-term impact. The deflationary forces in the economy are a much bigger concern.
Asks at what point sustained high oil prices would change the deflationary outlook.
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Anthony Pompliano
Prolonged high oil prices (6-12 months) would have a big impact, but the US economy's oil dependency per unit of GDP has decreased over time.
Asks how to invest given current mix of risks: war, energy spike, AI disruption, cracks in private credit, weaker jobs.