Jobless Claims Surge To Highest In Almost 4 Months + Billionaire Hedge Fund Buys #Bitcoin
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Jobless claims in the United States have surged to their highest level in nearly four months, rising from an upwardly revised 862,000 to 885,000 as lockdowns accelerate across the country. This increase marks the most Americans seeking first-time unemployment benefits since September and follows a trend of job losses for three out of the last four weeks. The speaker notes that while this economic downturn is not surprising given the history of semi-lockdowns in early 2021 followed by full lockdowns in March, it highlights a critical shift where states will soon need to compete fiercely to retain citizens and their tax dollars.
In response to these challenges, the video emphasizes mobility as a key strategy for individuals facing economic instability or dissatisfaction with local conditions. The speaker argues that humans are genetically nomadic creatures who have historically conquered the world by moving, suggesting that people should consider relocating from high-cost cities like California or New York to more affordable areas such as Texas or Florida. This perspective is particularly relevant for young families seeking better value propositions rather than remaining in debt-ridden urban environments with ten times the cost of living. The speaker believes that within the next five to ten years, governments at various levels will actively fight to attract residents because they rely on tax revenue to function effectively.
The discussion then shifts to a significant investment move by billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard, who is backing a new institution focused firm aiming for up to one billion dollars in Bitcoin and Ethereum allocations annually. Although the speaker acknowledges that Bitcoin has recently surpassed its all-time high, he advises caution against jumping into the market prematurely while noting that the cryptocurrency's primary value lies beyond simple monetary gain. He identifies censorship resistance and portability as the most fundamental properties of Bitcoin, allowing users to control their assets via a seed phrase without relying on state-controlled banks or governments.
Ultimately, the speaker connects these financial concepts to personal freedom, urging viewers to appreciate the importance of owning an asset that cannot be frozen by dictatorial regimes. He suggests that even those born in North America may not fully understand this value until they experience government overreach elsewhere, such as in China, Venezuela, or historical dictatorships like the Soviet Union. By combining geographic mobility with holding censorship-resistant digital assets, individuals can secure a lifestyle where their wealth remains portable and safe regardless of political instability anywhere else in the world.
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jabba's claims surged the highest in
almost four months after rising for
three of the last four weeks with a big
surge in previous weeks as lockdowns
re-accelerate
across america analysts expect initial
job loss claims to slow modestly this
week but
instead claims sword
from an upward revised 862
to 885 000
the highest number of americans seeking
first-time unemployment benefits since
september
i've made a couple of videos about this
you don't have to be a rocket scientist
or economist to see the writing on the
wall
what happens when you have we're coming
up what
some places started doing lockdowns in
january in february semi-lockdowns at
least
and uh majority of north america did
full lockdowns in march
january's around the corner marches
around the corner that's one whole year
coming up that were
economic lockdown it's not a surprise
it's not a shocker
what's more interesting is the things
that you're gonna do
what are you going to do to counteract
these lockdowns
i always say it's not the it's the
greatest way
and i'm the first one to say this guys
we are blessed to live in north america
yeah we have a bunch of [ __ ] that goes
on and yeah we have our own problems
but at least we're not in [ __ ] north
korea or living underneath
the thumb of the communist party in
china
there's much much much worse places in
the world to live than where we live
in fact we're the minority in the world
the options that we have over here
and in the in and where we live we have
the option
and then and i love this option and it's
something that people are afraid of but
it's genetically ingrained in us
we have the option of mobility
especially americans in canada
we're [ __ ] cold everywhere god damn
it i wish we owned some caribbean
islands [ __ ] it's [ __ ] cold man it's
like -10 the other day over here with
snow it's brutal
anyways enough for my cold weather rants
hopefully once covered is over i'll be
going to mexico for [ __ ] christmas
that being said you have the option of
mobility and we're seeing that today
right now
in united states cali to uh
texas new york to florida
um and and people are fed up with what's
happening in their state
and so the number one thing you can do
if you're realizing that your state
doesn't have the necessary i put it this
way guys
we are heading to a period of time where
states provinces
and nations need to fight for their
citizens
where hey we have the best value
proposition
that's where it's heading and
we as human beings are nomadic creatures
and we conquer the world because we're
bipedal
and we're hunters and gatherers and we
went everywhere we're nomadic by
genetics
and i know people are scared to move
around places but at the end of the day
if you're looking at the
if you're looking at statistics and your
state is a [ __ ] up state or in canada
canada has like i want to say same same
same different different as they say
you know it's different in bc than
ontario much different [ __ ] in
[ __ ] quebec
you still have options from different
provinces you still have options for
different cities i keep on
raving about this or i would say i keep
on raging about this like move away from
the city i moved away
almost done 100 percent um city life is
done man for young families like if
you're a young guy you want to go
bars and clubs yeah i get it man i
[ __ ] i was [ __ ] partying for 15
years of my life
age of 15 to like 26 or every morning
like with dicks i get it i get it
i get it but for a young family you have
kids and a wife and
a partner whatever what does city life
have to offer you
10 times the cost of living or what
what's your value proposition
to be in debt for the rest of your life
there's no value proposition it's not at
all leave the city man remote work
and so these claims or these numbers is
not surprising to me
whatsoever i think it's time for people
to wake up and realize
mobility mobility mobility move
you know if we're gonna be now i
i really do believe in the next five to
ten years
we're gonna be entering a stage where
provinces states and uh
provinces states and nation states will
be fighting for
people to be there because at the end of
the day they need us because they need
to tax us
without our tax dollars they can't
function as a government
now i can get a whole different tangent
talking about mmt and why they even need
to [ __ ] taxes if they can print
unlimited [ __ ] money as much as they
want but that's a different conversation
we'll have another time
now on to other things that is connected
to this
but not connected same same so-so
billionaire hedge fund manager alan
howard is backing a little known fund
that's buying bitcoin and ether allen
howard billionaire hedge fund manager is
among
the backers of a new institution focused
investment firm that's eyeing as much as
one billion allocation to bitcoin and
ether by the year
by yearly next year according to
bloomberg one river asset management ceo
eric peters set up a new company to
capture institutional interests
the two major cryptocurrencies he told
the publication he bought more than 600
million dollars in bitcoin in ether
a process that was completed in november
i don't know if you've been paying
attention but
bitcoin has surpassed his all-time high
you know what that means
once bitcoin pops it flows down then you
have ethereum will pop
then it'll pop down to the all coins it
looks like it
we don't want to jump the ship too early
right now you don't want to pop your
cherry too early
or be premature oh but it looks like
we're entering the next bull market i
don't know
maybe maybe not i personally don't care
but it's something to keep an eye on
i've been like
listen i i was talking about bitcoin for
a long time i've been
i've been in crypto i remember i i
entered i entered
i entered bitcoin where it was just
bitcoin when it was bitcoin and color
coin there was no ethereum it was just
literally just one thing was bitcoin and
people trying to build on top of bitcoin
and different color coins on bitcoin
and then they'll talk about side chain
and this and that like
and here we are you know years later and
we have thousands of currencies
and different blockchains and and now
we're nfts and all this stuff
and one thing has remained the status
quo the same
message is bitcoin is a different asset
class
it is the first time ever we have
devised
a new monetary system that is devoid of
state
uh the first one being not money but
being religion we separated religion
from state
now money from state now might not be
money as people define as money we can
call this maybe even digital gold so i
call it an asset so we have
devoid we have separated asset from
state
and people think it's too late listen
bitcoin has value proposition
that is beyond just money i think the
money proposition is a gamification when
it comes to the
incentives for people to be interested
in it but remember that is secondary to
the fact that the property is a bitcoin
if bitcoin didn't have the properties of
number one at least in my mind the most
important property being censorship
resistance
without that key fundamental property um
the monetary aspect of bitcoin wouldn't
primarily exist
everything else is secondary the very
notion that is censorship resistant
through the proof-of-work consensus
system that they have
is the primary value proposition of
bitcoin the fact that you can memorize a
seed phrase
in your mind or write it down a piece of
paper and it's portable
it is very cheap to transfer you can you
know send a million dollars a bitcoin
might cost you well
a couple of bucks peanuts compared to
wire transfers and time it takes
but the fact that is censorship
resistance is first
and the incentive a monetary gain is
second
now a lot of people will be coming right
now saying oh well bitcoin at twenty
four thousand dollars too expensive
in my mind i think bitcoin is going to
be 100k at least
i don't know when i don't really care
but what's more important is the fact
that if i decide to leave where i live
and this
goes back to my original video this one
and tied this together
if i decide i want to leave somewhere i
might leave a state and i might have a
bank in one state or i might just leave
a whole country in general and decide
i'm gonna go [ __ ] off and live on an
island somewhere
that portability and the censorship
resistant is that key
to the nomadic lifestyle that we as
hunters and gatherers
once were and so i urge you guys listen
it's not about hey i'm going to put my
life savings of bitcoin or hey all
bitcoins i'm going to do another 10x
it's the very notion this asset is
censorship resistant
and portable like this is the thing i
kind of keep on iterating on people i
think a lot of people in north america
it's not fair to say most of us are
immigrants so we've experienced
regimes and governments that really are
dictatorship-like
but people who are let's say natively
born third generation
fourth generation and the family has
been here from the get-go they haven't
really
experienced government regimes that are
true dictatorship whether that is from
china or
my parents are from yugoslavia or
whether that venezuela or
places in africa or even like you know
during soviet time in in russia
until you until you experience when the
guns
start coming down and the government
really clamps on everything then you
then you would really appreciate the
importance of something that
is censorship resistant portable
that you control and i'll leave it that
peace