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On today’s show we discuss:
- What is DeFi
- A Christmas Eve airdrop
- The many worlds of enough (highly recommend)
- 3 billion people getting Omnicron
- Strong holiday sales
- Celebrity SPACs stink
- There is too much money sloshing around
- The US economy is a machine
- The Upside Potential in Sequence of Return Risk
- People have too much stuff
- The Web3 Renaissance: A Golden Age for Content
- I don’t think gamblers set out to save the movies, but …
- Planet for the apes
- People don’t use their Alexa
- Crowdfunding movies
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Stat of the day via @markets…
S&P 500 has hit record highs 68 times this yr, 2nd-most ever (1995). Works out to record close on approx 30% of trading days in 2021.
Index ↑ nearly 28% ytd.
Who called this at beginning of yr? Good reminder as 2022 predictions start coming out.
— Nate Geraci (@NateGeraci) December 27, 2021
Rising prices are likely weighing on consumer savings pic.twitter.com/5KZBkX9x7n
— Kathy Jones (@KathyJones) December 23, 2021
Spain's producer price index went up 33.1% year-on-year. This is sort of nuts. The Eurozone as a group is approaching 20% YOY. pic.twitter.com/tq27Kg5xgJ
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) December 22, 2021
Our mission is to liberate Blockbuster and form a DAO to collectively govern the brand as we turn Blockbuster into the first-ever DeFilm streaming platform and a mainstay of both the Web3 brands and products, but a powerhouse in the future of the film industry. Read the 🧵👇
— BlockbusterDAO (📼,📼) (@BlockbusterDAO) December 26, 2021
Here's a thread on the history of funds that have gained 40%+ per year over a five-year period. To begin with, I tallied up the rolling five-year returns of all unleveraged OE funds and ETFs from 12/1/91-11/30/21. There were 10,538 funds that had at least one five-year return.
— Jeffrey Ptak (@syouth1) December 23, 2021
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