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Unf*cking The Republic

Bitcoin & Crude Oil: How Speculators Feast on America’s Carcass.

Unf*cking The Republic

UNFTR Media

Government, News, Politics

4.9683 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Market speculation into commodities like Bitcoin and Crude oil pose dangerous risks during the best of times. Heading into a recession, the stakes are even higher. The temptation to participate during volatile periods is a psychological phenomenon that takes hold among casual investors who rarely realize when they’re part of an institutional con. When leveraged institutions are in desperate need of liquidity they’ll stop at nothing to game the system. In this episode, Max offers a cautionary tale of speculative behavior in the crude oil markets during the financial crisis that very few people even know about. He then connects it to the dangers posed to investors who dabble in digital currencies like Bitcoin, especially under a pro-crypto Trump administration.

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Resources

Forbes: ‘Worse Than 2008’—Bitcoin Price Braced As Billionaire Ray Dalio Warns Of ‘Monetary Order Breakdown’

Forbes: ‘Big Catalyst’—Serious Fed Warning Spurs Huge BlackRock Bitcoin Price Prediction

NPR: What to know about Trump's 'crypto strategic reserve' plan

Yahoo Finance: Donald Trump’s 29-year-old crypto guru lays out the president’s plans for regulating crypto and rolling back a Biden-era crackdown

Pillsbury Law: Trump 2.0: A New Era for the Regulation of Cryptocurrency and Digital Assets

SDLC Corp: Stablecoins: Characteristics, How They Work, Functionality, and Use Cases

Bitpanda Academy: Meme Coins: Definition & Characteristics

St. Edward’s University: What Are the Exchange Coins

The Digital Chamber: Why is Bitcoin a Commodity?

Investopedia: Is Crypto a Commodity? What It Means, Examples

Book Love

Dan Dicker: Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy

Emily Lambert: The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World's Biggest Markets

Peter Maass: Crude World

Leah McGrath Goodman: The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market

UNFTR Episode Resources

Peak Oil: It’s a Crude, Crude World.

The U.S. Dollar and 10 Year Treasury: Why Economists Are Freaking the F*ck Out.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Topical cream, a pod listener's dream, unfucking the news and current events, topical cream.

0:12.5

Yeah, you know what I mean.

0:16.0

A quarter of an hour gets you our two cents topical cream.

0:29.4

The two most dangerous periods to fuck around in the markets are at the peak and the troth.

0:36.0

Problem is, most people don't know they're in them until too late.

0:40.1

In peak times, the sign is usually when your dumbest friend or a complete stranger gives you a

0:45.0

stock tip or talks about their crypto buy. At the bottom of the market is a whole new crop of

0:50.6

pushers that are way more dangerous, and that's who we're talking about today.

0:54.9

So in this episode, I'm going to go through the basics of crypto and the current investment

0:58.7

landscape, but first, I want to tell you a little story, a filthy story, a cautionary tale to

1:04.5

show you that no matter how much you're invested and informed, you're not.

1:09.3

I've been vocal for about a year that if Trump was elected, he would run the economy

1:12.8

into the ground.

1:14.1

Not just because he is uncertainty personified, but because he would tear apart the regulatory

1:18.8

framework of markets and industry, blow up social safety nets, and treat the Treasury

1:23.1

like a speculative piggy bank.

1:25.7

I mean, the guy wants to create a sovereign wealth fund so he can

1:28.8

direct its investments without oversight. Imagine the world's biggest grifter in charge of the

1:34.4

world's biggest piggy bank. So here we are at the precipice of a recession, which means we can

1:39.6

actually spot the moment we head into that trough. And that means the speculative vultures will be out in full force and tempting you with

1:47.7

serious crypto-thomo.

1:50.1

I mean, Bitcoin was over 100K once already this year, and it's starting to rebound.

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