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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

674: How Hedge Funds Became America's Largest Creditor with Infranomics

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Marty sits down with Robert from Infranomics to discuss the Fed's recent revelation that hedge funds hold $1.8 trillion in U.S. debt through the basis trade, the hidden leverage threatening Treasury markets, and why Bitcoin remains the only sound asset in an era of debasement and rising populism.

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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

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins.

0:25.3

In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.5

Robert, welcome back to the show, sir.

0:39.2

Good to be back.

0:40.8

Good to have you back.

0:41.9

I've been binging your YouTube channel the last two weeks.

0:46.9

I was telling you before that I was checking in once a week, but I think with all the madness going on in markets right now, you've been covering

0:57.1

everything going on with great detail.

1:00.4

It's astonishing the amount of detail that you can go into and the amount of data that you're

1:05.0

able to surface.

1:06.6

I reached out last week.

1:07.5

I said, hey, we'll love to catch up on the show.

1:09.5

Last time you're on, we talked about silent depression and sort of the more secular

1:15.2

headwinds, if you will, societally in terms of the effect that the economy is having on

1:24.5

individuals and society at large in aggregate.

1:28.4

And I think you can definitely touch on that later because I think things are certainly accelerating as AI becomes more prominent and people begin to worry about what the job market is going to look like moving forward.

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