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Unchained

Bits + Bips: Why Traders Are Sanguine Before Trump’s Big Tariff Day - Ep. 806

Unchained

Laura Shin

News, Tech News, Business News

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Investors are still licking their wounds from this month’s corrections. But just as Trump’s tariffs are about to move into full-force, our experts are seeing silver linings and causes for optimism. With conflicting signals coming from all corners of the map, hosts Noelle Acheson, Ram Ahluwalia, Alex Kruger, and Felix Jauvin break down: What to expect from Trump on April 2nd Takeaways from last week’s FOMC meeting If the White House and Powell are actually on the same page  Why tech stocks are taking off again Why BlackRock is bullish on bitcoin during bear markets If ether is about to get its groove back Sponsors: Bitwise Hosts: Alex Kruger, Founder of Asgard Ram Ahluwalia, CFA, CEO and Founder of Lumida Noelle Acheson, Author of the “Crypto Is Macro Now” Newsletter  Felix Jauvin, Director and Host - Forward Guidance Links Incoming Trump Tariffs Bloomberg: Trump Plans His Tariff ‘Liberation Day’ With More Targeted Push WSJ: White House Narrows April 2 Tariffs FOMC Meeting Unchained: Bitcoin Drops as Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged, as Expected NYTimes: Citing Tariffs and Uncertainty, Fed Sees Higher Inflation and Lower Growth Animal Spirits Return Barron’s: Don’t Count Out the Mag 7. They Could Lead a U.S. Stock Comeback. CNBC: ‘Magnificent 7’ has a notable up day after struggling for 3 months BlackRock Decrypt: BlackRock Digital Assets Head Criticizes Narrative of Bitcoin as a Risk-On Asset Bloomberg: BlackRock to List Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Product in Europe Fidelity Tokenization CoinDesk: Fidelity Files for Onchain U.S. Treasury Fund, Joining the Asset Tokenization Race Timestamps: 👋 0:00 Intro 📉 2:16 Why investors are nervous about April 2nd 🌎 4:40 Two ways to think about tariffs ☯️ 6:56 The difference between retail and professional traders 🏦 8:44 Why the Fed is predicting a worst-case scenario 📈 12:08 Why the correction is largely done 💰 19:20 How the Mag7 got its groove back 🏛️ 20:42 Are Bessent and Powell more aligned than thought? 🚀 22:54 BlackRock says a recession is good for bitcoin? 🥇 24:54 Altcoin ETF race about to start? 🎌 28:41 Why Japan is irrelevant right now 🐂 30:42 Why animal spirits are back ⛓️ 35:03 The great financial unshackling 📈 38:02 Is ether ready for a comeback? ✅ 42:09 Why Fidelity is tokenizing on Ethereum 📈📉 44:32 Are pump and dumps over? 🇪🇺 49:32 Dumb money coming to Europe? 🐙 52:35 Why Kraken made a smart buy this week Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We haven't seen this short interest in the last five years.

0:04.0

We're at the 98th percent, 99th percentile of short interest.

0:08.0

Everyone hedged and then kept hedging, and then right when they're not supposed to edge, they just hedged them more.

0:14.0

And what you saw in markets today, Monday morning, strong gap-up openings,

0:20.0

MSDR gap up and running.

0:23.6

I have a basket I call Twitter momentum stocks.

0:26.6

They're all up strongly.

0:28.6

So the headline is animal spirits are back.

0:30.6

And crypto and Bitcoin are part of animal spirits.

0:33.6

Hi everyone.

0:35.6

Welcome to bits and bibs, exploring how crypto and macro collide one basis point at a time.

0:41.3

I'm your host, Noel Acheson, I seeer and keeper of the Crypto is Macro Now newsletter.

0:46.3

I'm here with Alex Kruger, Kruger Macro of Haus-Asgard, protector of the realm, and Ram Alualia,

0:52.8

Meister Hope Wealth, leader of Lumida.

0:55.4

Hi, guys.

0:56.1

How's going?

0:57.1

Hi, everyone.

0:58.7

Today, we are joined by Felix Jovan, the Golden Voice of the Forward Guidance podcast.

1:04.4

Hi, Felix. Thanks so much for joining us today.

1:06.9

Hey, everybody. Super excited to be here. I'm a big fan of this show, and so it's it felt wildly overdue to be on the show and be with you guys.

1:15.0

So yeah, super excited to dig in.

1:17.0

We're so glad you're here and I'm sure that many of our listeners are also fans of your show, and if not, they should definitely check it out.

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