Porkopolis Economics: Episode 94

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Today, we take a look at the Federal Reserve balance sheet and determine how fast it grows.

Contents

00:12 Balance Sheet Overview

00:47 Global Financial Crisis and its Effects

02:22 Speed of Growth

03:57 Growth Curve after 2008

05:01 Growth Rate Doubles

05:14 Comparing Regressions

06:11 Closing Thoughts

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 93

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Today, we review Apple’s market cap versus the value of shares traded using a 40-year graph of the Apple market cap.

Contents

00:17 Graph Overview

01:52 Evaluation Notes and What Isn't Going to be Covered

02:37 Value of Shares Traded

04:07 Market Cap

06:50 All Time Average

08:43 Closing Thoughts

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 92

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Today, we review NATO military expenditure, break down key member nations, and break down the 2% guideline.

Contents

00:11 Table Overview

01:42 Quick 30-Member Nation Breakdown

04:46 The 2% Guideline

05:40 Measuring Military Strength and How We Do It

07:41 Expenditure Breakdown and Who Is Following the 2% Guideline

10:10 GDP Overview

12:24 Closing Thoughts

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 91

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

Here we review how to calculate TTM (trailing-12 month!) returns for the S&P 500 over the last 220+ years, how these returns actually look graphically, and what the all-time averages say you "should" be getting from your portfolio.

Contents

00:17 Index Overview

01:18 Rolling Trailing Twelve Month Returns

04:23 All Time Average Line

07:43 S&P By The Numbers

09:59 Closing Thoughts

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 90

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

The video is a continuation of a pervious video. Matthew reviews another trend-line from the S&P500 index. Also explained are the volatility over the years, highs and lows in significant years and the all time trend.

Contents

00:19 Index Overview

00:59 All-Time Trend

02:40 From 1971

03:15 Compound Annual Growth Rate

05:37 2-sigma moves

07:56 Where We Are Now & Closing Thoughts

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 89

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

This video discusses the S&P500 over the last 220 years. Also explained are the volatility over the years, highs and lows in significant decades and the all time trend. The important thing to look at when it comes to long-term returns is compound annual growth, it's a vital statistic to understand.

Contents

00:00 Chart Breakdown and Brief S&P 500 History

00:34 S&P Total Return Index

09:21 Exponential Regression

13:22 Compound Annual Growth Rate

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Crypto Voices: Episode 162

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Matthew, Alec & Michel talk with Pete Winn, Bitcoin educator extraordinaire. Pete worked formerly at Fedi, the company, as well as contributing to the open source Fedimint, and he is the founder of the educational portal "Bitcoin for Humans." We discuss the amazing benefits at a scale that Fedimints can bring to Bitcoin, as well as some of its criticisms and risks.

Contents

00:00:00 Intro

00:04:21 What is Fedimint?

00:13:13 Regulators & Fedimint

00:21:00 Regulating Bitcoin

00:22:09 Protection over Fedimint

00:27:43 Criticism over Fedimint

00:36:13 Lighting Network

00:41:17 Bitcoin for Humans

00:45:30 Scaling and Fedimint

00:49:10 Bitcoin's Fees

00:52:28 Alec's Philosophical Question

00:59:11 Fedimint's Stability Pool

01:06:48 UTXO and the Future

01:09:09 Fedimint and Payment

01:14:43 Closing Thoughts

Links for more info: https://bitcoinforhumans.com/

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Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris

Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/

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Bitcoin, privacy, crypto, economics & liberty

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Porkopolis Economics: Episode 88

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Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

This video discusses the total compound returns you'd receive from investing in the S&P500 and, crucially, reinvesting all dividends and then holding for the long term.

Contents

00:00 Intro

00:34 S&P Total Return Index

02:07 Reinvesting Your Dividends

06:35 Compound Return Figures

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

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https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.

Crypto Voices: Episode 161

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Matthew & Alec cover the 11-strong Bitcoin spot ETF launch this week and why it matters. Alec covers the true privacy gaps that exist in your own car. The fellas conclude with a few charts on the long-term trend of BTC priced in 10 different fiat currencies and the US national debt.

Contents

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:03 Bitcoin ETF Launch

00:09:38 Bitcoin Market Cap

00:19:04 Coinbase

00:23:44 Bitcoin Over Time

00:27:49 Peter Zeihan

00:35:10 Privacy Review on Cars

00:44:30 The Appearance of Privacy

00:48:28 United States Federal Debt

00:50:16 Closing Thoughts

Show Sponsor: hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices

Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris

Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/

Podcast & videos

Bitcoin, privacy, crypto, economics & liberty

Thanks for watching!

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 87

Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/

Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/

Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports, from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis.

It's finally here. With yesterday's SEC approval of 11 spot ETFs for Bitcoin investment, it's time to revisit where things stand in terms of Bitcoin's strong power law trendline.

Contents

00:00 Intro

01:49 Bitcoin's power trendline

02:49 Analyzing percentile bands

04:31 Power law regression

05:59 Closing thoughts

Host: Matthew Mezinskis

https://porkopolis.io

https://twitter.com/crypto_voices

Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.