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🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 150 minutes
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Marty sits down with Dave Collum and Rudy Havenstein to discuss the merger of the Fed and Treasury, real inflation rates versus official statistics, housing market dysfunction, the Epstein scandal cover-up, government corruption, surveillance state expansion, and the systemic breakdown of American institutions.
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| 0:00.0 | You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free. |
| 0:10.0 | If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts. |
| 0:16.0 | So it's all acting like safe haven. |
| 0:18.0 | I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor. I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin. If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. Probably should be. Well, I'm out of Rudy, I think it's me and you, I think it's me and you are going to steer Dave back on track here. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm told. |
| 0:43.1 | Dave's a force of nature. |
| 0:45.0 | I know. |
| 0:46.1 | I know. |
| 0:47.1 | It's been two years since we last caught up, maybe even three. |
| 0:52.0 | Well, that was the first time we caught up, too. |
| 0:53.9 | I think we've only done one threesome. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.4 | And obviously a lot's happened since then, but let's just jump into current topics. |
| 1:03.4 | And since we have Rudy on the call, maybe we focus on what your perspective is with the |
| 1:10.3 | quabbling between Trump, Jerome Powell, and Treasury and the Fed. |
| 1:15.4 | It seems like we're at a point where the administration just wants to call, not bullshit, but just like, all right, we're going to merge the Fed in the Treasury. |
| 1:27.2 | We're going to make it happen happen there's not going to be any |
| 1:29.4 | facade that there's independence |
| 1:31.5 | from the from the Fed moving forward |
| 1:33.5 | because we're |
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