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#578: The USA Is Losing Its Leverage with Luke Gromen

Jan 31, 20251 hr 16 min
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Marty sits down with Luke Gromen to discuss what America needs in order to maintain its foothold in the geopolitical power balance.

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0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Tariffs 4:30 - DeepSeek 12:09 - Bessent's reset 16:56 - Fold & Bitkey 18:51 - Liquidity crisis and the big print 25:42 - Speculating on a deal with China 29:56 - Unchained 30:57 - Europe is losing 38:24 - Gold price and SBR 45:22 - History of gold’s official price 50:03 - Is the bandaid coming off soon? 55:03 - Bitcoin-backed lending 1:01:41 - There’s hope for cooler heads 1:13:06 - SAB 121 repeal

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