Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald
The Pomp Podcast
Anthony Pompliano
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Larry McDonald is a New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Bear Traps Report. In this conversation, we discuss his view that markets are shifting from financial assets to hard assets, why inflation and global conflict are driving this change, and how investors should think about bitcoin, energy, and materials. We also explore risks in private credit and what the next cycle could look like for global markets.
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- 0:00 - Intro
- 1:02 - The great rotation to hard assets thesis
- 5:22 - AI spending surge & tech cash burn risks
- 8:16 - How to invest in this market shift
- 16:39 - Do we get higher or lower inflation?
- 20:17 - Dollar dominance & bitcoin vs gold
- 29:55 - Private credit cracks & liquidity issues explained
- 35:23 - Where investors should allocate capital now
- 39:55 – Biggest risks in markets right now
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| 1:25.0 | Bear Trap's Report. In this conversation, he is going to walk through his view of what's happening in financial markets and various assets, and I think it is going to be eye-opening for all of you. We touch on why he thinks that we're going from a software and financialized world to something that needs many more hard assets in your portfolio. He recently just put Bitcoin into their portfolio for the first time, and he explains why. We talk about dollar dominance, the competition between deflation and inflation moving forward, what's going |
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