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Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High: M2 Money Supply and Crypto Market Cycles

19 Nov 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena $0.16

The resurgence in M2 money supply and Bitcoin’s recent rally past $89,000 underscore the deep ties between economic policy, liquidity, and asset prices. Today, Bitcoin’s market cap alone exceeds $1.77 trillion, surpassing even Spain’s GDP, highlighti...

21 Million Reasons Why Bitcoin Matters in a World of Infinite Fiat

19 Nov 2024 5 minute read 6 comments Heath Muchena $0.25

Xi Jinping’s “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” has long been a vessel for pragmatism cloaked in ideological zeal. But as America faces its own existential economic recalibration, the phrase “American Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics” ap...

Disaster Hoarding: High Risk, Heavy Losses

5 Oct 2024 2 minute read 0 comments WinterYeti $0.12

Hoarding has always been a problem where there is scarcity. The few who have take advantage of skyrocketing demand, charging outrageous pricing when demand is high. When it drops, the same characters replenish, restock, and prepare for the next oppor...

How AI Predicts Commodity Price Movements in Real Time

1 Oct 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena $0.03

Picture this: It’s mid-2023, and the global commodity markets are a rollercoaster. One minute, oil prices surge past $90 per barrel; the next, cotton prices plummet by more than 50%. Meanwhile, the price of agricultural staples like rice skyrockets b...

The Power of Bitcoin in an Interest Rate Cut Resistant Economy

21 Jul 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena $0.10

As the global financial landscape undergoes significant shifts, one emerging observation is the likely de-sensitization of the U.S. economy to interest rate cuts in the upcoming business cycle. This phenomenon, akin to the recent desensitization to i...

What Makes The Fourth Bitcoin Halving Special

27 May 2024 6 minute read 3 comments 0xVince $0.42

The fourth Bitcoin Halving concluded last April 19, 2024. The halving was another success, and the market is now beginning to respond. This reduced the block subsidy of Bitcoin in half, from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC. This makes the currency issuance of...

Yield Curve Confusion: How Structural Shifts Have Undermined the Bond Market’s Insights

20 May 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena $0.06

Once celebrated as the pinnacle of "smart money," the bond market has seen its role as a predictive powerhouse significantly diminished. Traditionally, the yield curve's ability to forecast recessions positioned the bond market as an essential tool f...

Free Philosophy

14 May 2024 4 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.01

The Philosophy Behind The OTFM Mission Free Market: (n.) An economic system in which the goods, services, prices and values within the market system are created, shaped, decided upon and influenced by the supply and demand of the consumers and produc...

The Great Reset Unmasked: A Controlled Implosion of the Financial System

3 May 2024 12 minute read 3 comments Heath Muchena $0.14

Market Manipulation: The Hidden Forces Behind Economic Crises In the vast theatre of global finance, the curtains rarely pull back far enough to reveal the true machinations behind economic instability. Yet, a closer examination of financial history...

Starting 2024; Uneasy.

10 Jan 2024 1 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket $0.01

 The Federal reserve has decided to hold interest rates to start the year off. S&P 500, Nasdaq,Dow, and Crypto markets alike all hitting a downward trend to start the new year off. This is leaving retail investors like ourselves wondering what does 2...