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David Hoffman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2256 total appearances

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So MicroStrategy has to pay that back to investors, but that's where the capital is coming from.

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And his ability to finance this right now is quite impressive, actually.

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And I got to wonder if they're going to hit that by the end of this year.

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If they keep making these buys, we'll have to keep getting the capital.

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Lastly, on markets, FOMC, they had their meeting and the rates were left unchanged.

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So the Fed decided to do nothing.

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They left the rates at 3.5% to 3.75%.

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Everyone on the board agreed, except for Fed Governor Mirren.

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So that's Trump's favorite.

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Of course, he dissented.

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He was in favor of interest rate cuts.

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The Fed emphasized there's more uncertainty in the Middle East.

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Inflation is increasing.

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Actually said that inflation is 1% point above target.

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So this is not stagflation.

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It's nothing to worry about.

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So rate cuts aren't going to save risk on assets.

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I guess that's what this tells us.

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We got more to talk about, including this, the biggest news, I think, in a long time in crypto.

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The SEC and the CFTC are giving us the Clarity Act or something pretty close to it.