Why Is Bitcoin’s Price Going Down? | Anthony & John Pompliano

The Pomp Podcast

Anthony Pompliano

Business, Investing

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

John and Anthony Pompliano discuss bitcoin, why the price is going down, what’s going on with the federal reserve, where the pressure from the White House is coming, prediction for the next 10 years of the US economy, and will Powell cut interest rates?

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TimeStamps:

0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Why is bitcoin dropping?
4:34 - Bitcoin vs money supply
12:12 - Where does bitcoin go from here?
21:31 - Why bitcoin is now a consensus trade
25:44 - Early bitcoin stories and ancient coins
34:44 - Feedback from Jerome Powell and Jackson Hole
41:00 - Lisa Cook situation and where we go from here

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