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Feb 14, 2024 • 8min

How Extreme is the US 10-yr Bond Yield?

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 97 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Today, we review the United States 10-year Government Bond Yield, also known as the 10 Year Note. A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition (Wiley Finance) by Sydney Homer: https://www.amazon.com/History-Interest-Rates-Fourth-Finance/dp/0471732834 Contents 00:10 Understanding the Bond Yield 02:20 Outside Sources - Good Read 03:08 Mean Over the Last 60 Years 03:32 One Sigma Down | Up 04:54 Two Sigma Down | Up 06:33 Looking at the Extremes 07:28 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Feb 13, 2024 • 6min

Silver's "Price" in History

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 96 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Today, we review the exponential regression price of silver over the last fifty years. All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself: Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x) Coefficients found: y = 3.52 * EXP (0.28% * x) Contents 00:08 Silver Price Trendline and Analysis Intro 01:11 Silver's Historical Price Changes 02:19 Exponential Regression Breakdown 03:40 Understanding Compound Annual Growth Rate 05:11 2030 Prediction 05:35 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Feb 12, 2024 • 9min

Gold's "Price" in History

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 95 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. All-time trend coefficients to draw it yourself: Power formula: y = a * EXP (b * x) Coefficients found: y = 132.49 * EXP (0.41% * x) Prior videos with further info: Gold original exponential explainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRkS2_ylec Gold with other trendlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzPKK53w0IY Gold with percentiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkkPpCfxWA Contents 00:33 Gold Price Trendline and Analysis Intro 00:46 Exponential Regression Breakdown 03:02 Gold's Historical Price Changes 04:05 Gold's Price Now 04:43 Understanding Compound Annual Growth Rate 07:42 203 Prediction 08:06 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Feb 9, 2024 • 7min

How fast does your balance sheet grow?

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 94 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Today, we take a look at the Federal Reserve balance sheet and determine how fast it grows. Contents 00:12 Balance Sheet Overview 00:47 Global Financial Crisis and its Effects 02:22 Speed of Growth 03:57 Growth Curve after 2008 05:01 Growth Rate Doubles 05:14 Comparing Regressions 06:11 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Feb 6, 2024 • 9min

Apple’s Market Cap vs. Shares Traded

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 93 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Today, we review Apple’s market cap versus the value of shares traded using a 40-year graph of the Apple market cap. Contents 00:17 Graph Overview 01:52 Evaluation Notes and What Isn't Going to be Covered 02:37 Value of Shares Traded 04:07 Market Cap 06:50 All Time Average 08:43 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Feb 5, 2024 • 13min

The United States Dominates NATO

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 92 Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Today, we review NATO military expenditure, break down key member nations, and break down the 2% guideline. Contents 00:11 Table Overview 01:42 Quick 30-Member Nation Breakdown 04:46 The 2% Guideline 05:40 Measuring Military Strength and How We Do It 07:41 Expenditure Breakdown and Who Is Following the 2% Guideline 10:10 GDP Overview 12:24 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Jan 31, 2024 • 11min

What the heck is TTM?

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 91 Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. Here we review how to calculate TTM (trailing-12 month!) returns for the S&P 500 over the last 220+ years, how these returns actually look graphically, and what the all-time averages say you "should" be getting from your portfolio. Contents 00:17 Index Overview 01:18 Rolling Trailing Twelve Month Returns 04:23 All Time Average Line 07:43 S&P By The Numbers 09:59 Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Jan 29, 2024 • 11min

50 Years of Stocks

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 90 Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. The video is a continuation of a pervious video. Matthew reviews another trend-line from the S&P500 index. Also explained are the volatility over the years, highs and lows in significant years and the all time trend. Contents 00:19 Index Overview 00:59 All-Time Trend 02:40 From 1971 03:15 Compound Annual Growth Rate 05:37 2-sigma moves 07:56 Where We Are Now & Closing Thoughts Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Jan 26, 2024 • 15min

220 Years of S&P Pricing

Porkopolis Economics: Episode 89 Check out show sponsor Coinkite: https://coinkite.com/ Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Porkopolis Economics covers macroeconomics, money, and sports from the creator of the Crypto Voices podcast, Matthew Mezinskis. This video discusses the S&P500 over the last 220 years. Also explained are the volatility over the years, highs and lows in significant decades and the all time trend. The important thing to look at when it comes to long-term returns is compound annual growth, it's a vital statistic to understand. Contents 00:00 Chart Breakdown and Brief S&P 500 History 00:34 S&P Total Return Index 09:21 Exponential Regression 13:22 Compound Annual Growth Rate Host: Matthew Mezinskis https://porkopolis.io https://twitter.com/crypto_voices Show content is not investment or financial advice in any way.
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Jan 24, 2024 • 1h 18min

Pete Winn: Fedimints Revisited

Crypto Voices: Episode 162 Donations to Porkopolis Economics via BTCPay are appreciated: https://donations.porkopolis.io/ Show support appreciated: donations.cryptovoices.com Alec Harris's havenX: https://thehavenx.com/ Matthew, Alec & Michel talk with Pete Winn, Bitcoin educator extraordinaire. Pete worked formerly at Fedi, the company, as well as contributing to the open source Fedimint, and he is the founder of the educational portal "Bitcoin for Humans." We discuss the amazing benefits at a scale that Fedimints can bring to Bitcoin, as well as some of its criticisms and risks. Contents 00:00:00 Intro 00:04:21 What is Fedimint? 00:13:13 Regulators & Fedimint 00:21:00 Regulating Bitcoin 00:22:09 Protection over Fedimint 00:27:43 Criticism over Fedimint 00:36:13 Lighting Network 00:41:17 Bitcoin for Humans 00:45:30 Scaling and Fedimint 00:49:10 Bitcoin's Fees 00:52:28 Alec's Philosophical Question 00:59:11 Fedimint's Stability Pool 01:06:48 UTXO and the Future 01:09:09 Fedimint and Payment 01:14:43 Closing Thoughts Links for more info: https://bitcoinforhumans.com/ Show Sponsor: hodlhodl.com/join/cryptovoices Hosts: Matthew Mezinskis, Michel, Alec Harris Music: New Friend Music newfriendmusic.com/ Podcast & videos Bitcoin, privacy, crypto, economics & liberty Thanks for watching!

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