Rate Cuts Like Your Job Depends on It

Why a .5% rate cut is such a shock, what Bitcoiners should watch for next, and where to find the signal long-term. I also share my thoughts on Trump's DeFi token, project updates, and more.

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Links

• Fed cuts rates by a half point at September 2024 meeting (https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/18/fed-cuts-rates-september-2024-.html)

• Federal Reserve goes big with half-point interest rate cut, its first since 2020 (https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/interest-rate-cut-federal-reserve-decision-how-much-rcna171453)

• Fed moves to protect weakening job market with bold rate cut (https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/fed-rate-cut-announcement-00179873)

• The Fed is making its WORST policy mistake since 1929 (https://x.com/GameofTrades_/status/1836382034882888094)

• BlackRock Presentation - Bitcoin a Unique Diversifier.pdf (https://www.blackrock.com/us/financial-professionals/literature/whitepaper/bitcoin-a-unique-diversifier.pdf)

• The Real Estate Guys Radio Show - Real Estate Investing Education for Effective Action | Uncovering Evidence of Massive Fraud in Property Tax Valuations | Podcastindex.org (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/470526?episode=27659490191)

• Trump's crypto business presents possible conflict of interest (https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/donald-trump-crypto-world-liberty-financial-rcna171519)

Project Updates

• Sparrow 2.0.0 released (https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/2.0.0)

• River Proof of Reserves: Setting a new standard for Bitcoin exchanges (https://blog.river.com/river-proof-of-reserves/)

• River's Proof of Reserves Page (https://river.com/reserves)

• What Is Proof of Reserves? (https://river.com/learn/what-is-proof-of-reserves)

• Bitcoin Proof of Reserves - River - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmBO3ZboJy8)

Music

• Don't Take This For Granted - By: Two Weeks In Nashville (https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7020394)