Jan van Eck
speaker
382 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 27 May
Jan van Eck’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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and that this is the fourth year of the halvening.
And so every four years, Bitcoin goes down a lot.
And that it's down this year is not surprising.
In fact, we basically predicted it.
I think it's marginal.
As you know, we design a tie theme every year.
On our tie this year, besides celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence, we talked about the three most important things in US financial history, Alexander Hamilton, FDR who saved the banks, and the stablecoin bill of last year because it enabled for the first time in US history
the ability of a technology company to compete against the banking system.
Because otherwise, all our financial lives are always, you don't have a life until you have a bank account.
And then everything flows through your bank account.
Well now, these tech giants can compete against the banks.
But the banks have faced competition before.
The Money Market Fund at the end of the 1970s offered much higher interest rates than the banks were able to offer.
And so the banks lost a lot of money to money market mutual funds.
But they certainly survived.
There was a stickiness to their customer base.
I just don't think we'll go away.
You know, I'm not religious about this.
It's such a big company, SpaceX, that we're glad as ETF sponsors to have it in the public markets.
And I think all the steps that they're doing actually makes a lot of sense.
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