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Larry McDonald

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
366 total appearances

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The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

And you've had these families that you go in and want to risk off regime.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

One family has a liquidity problem.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

They need to sell a lot of Bitcoin in a short period of time.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

And that's what causes these.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

And then selling begets selling.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

It's like a contagion risk.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

Now, if the market, this is like gold, like 75, 100 years ago.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

as the market matures and broadens out, those drawdowns should get less significant.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

So if you think about the 370% drawdowns for Bitcoin,

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

in the last seven years.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

Gold's biggest drawdown in the last 10 years is about 22%.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

Maybe we just crossed that again in the last week.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

But gold's still a much better store of value because it's something that you can put several million dollars into and you're not going to get those 70% drawdowns.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

But I think going forward, Bitcoin's going to be far less volatile and you want to have a combination of gold, platinum, palladium, silver, and Bitcoin.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

Today's episode is brought to you by Figure.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

I mean, we talk about this in the book where

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

The last 10 years Republicans and Democrats have taken a billy club and hit many different countries over the head now the Russia example is a good one because Russia Ukraine tragedy Russia deserved a very strong response the problem is is

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

When you use your muscle, and this is what I call Washington hubris, Republicans and Democrats.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

Hubris is one of my favorite words because the Lehman management team, our first book was about Lehman.

The Pomp Podcast
Bitcoin, Gold & Energy: The Next Massive Wealth Shift | Larry McDonald

It was a New York Times bestseller.