#705: The Fed Can't Save Us This Time with Dave Collum
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
Marty Bent
4.8 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 195 minutes
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Marty sits down with Dave Collum to discuss his annual "Year in Review," covering the historic market bubble and looming financial crisis, the breakdown of trust in institutions, demographic collapse, AI's double-edged impact on society, and the conspiratorial undercurrents shaping modern geopolitics.
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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. |
| 0:31.9 | If you're not paying attention, you probably should be. |
| 0:36.4 | Sorry, how to plug up your podcast. And here's Dave. He most unquestionable. You probably should be. Sorry. |
| 0:39.1 | How to fuck up your podcast. |
| 0:44.1 | And here's Dave, the most undependable podcast guest in the planet. |
| 0:44.8 | I don't know. |
| 0:45.9 | I think you're pretty dependable. |
| 0:46.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.5 | How we doing? |
| 0:51.5 | Error 404. |
| 0:52.4 | Great. |
| 0:54.0 | Error 404, yeah. |
| 0:55.0 | Great title for this year's. Well, I thought it was actually going to be an error 404. |
| 0:57.0 | I almost didn't write it. |
| 0:59.0 | I was very close to that. |
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