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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

PREVIEW: Brokenomics | Market Update Feb 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dan gives an update on the weird behaviour of markets lately.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Broconomics.

0:25.4

Now, in this episode, I wanted to do a bit of a market update.

0:29.0

I haven't done one of those for a while, but things have been weird.

0:33.2

So it is worth covering what's going on.

0:35.3

Now, everything that I sort of spelled out in the previous Broconomics, I still stand by that.

0:40.3

I still think the liquidity is ultimately the driver of everything, and I still think that's coming because, well, there's

0:46.3

there's eight trillion of debt that needs to get rolled over, and, you know, how else are they going to do it?

0:52.3

I mean, are they going to suddenly discover prudent government spending and, you know, austerity and debt reduction going into the

1:00.9

US midterms? I would consider that somewhat unlikely. But nevertheless, the market patterns have

1:07.6

been just outright weird and is worth covering. So, I mean,

1:12.2

markets are just behaving in a way that just does confuse everybody. You know,

1:16.7

crypto hasn't rallied in the same way that other assets have. Bitcoin is below the,

1:23.3

what it was, $121,000 late to 2025 high. And it's bouncing around instead of setting new

1:32.3

records. But at the same time, precious metals like silver and gold have been extremely

1:39.3

volatile with these sharp surges upwards, followed by these quite deep pullbacks. Actually, I'm glad I timed

1:47.4

that right on the silver brokeromics I did recently. I think it was at 121 on the day that I recorded

1:53.6

that and I said, look, I do believe in the underlying message, but there is going to be a hell

1:58.2

of a lot of volatility here and expect to pull back.

2:01.4

And about three days after I filmed that, it did.

2:04.1

I think it pulled back down to whatever the sort of the interim load that it hit, like in the high 70s.

2:11.9

So, you know, stuff is odd because certain assets are responding to this picture very differently to how

2:19.6

other assets are and you might well want to know what's going on, as would I, to be honest.

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