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If you're trying to move and net settle an exchange of value between a network of AI agents performing tasks for us humans what is the currency that you're going to use it has to be digital native…
The only asset that's neutral enough and decentralized enough to truly be the neutral settlement layer between all of the domestic real-time payment systems that have since then proliferated…
My bet is in 10 years every company in the world that needs to send payments cross border will use lightning to do that either knowingly or not knowingly but the underlying technology that will…
I think Bitcoin will become like the reserve currency in the world for not only Earth, I think even like universe. You know, if we find like some aliens like come to Earth, right, they will recognize…
I believe the smart way to regulate this stablecoin is definitely embrace it. I think a lot of the people in the industry have this kind of the open mindset. We want to work with regulators, we want…
We want to become the global settlement layer for the next generation. As we know today, just as you say, Western Union, SWIFT is very big today, right? But those companies is just like those very…
Tron ETF ETN I think is extremely important if we want to get to the mainstream adoption, if we want to really embrace institutional investor, if we really want to get into Wall Street, get into like…
I think I would limit myself to in a sense I I'd put a little bit of a sort of frame on what the IMF said was that I think they were really supporting the sort of the the phrase sort of temporary and…
I think the I mean you might say well there's a set of risks from the Gulf because this thing could become big enough to in a sense dominate the AI type story. I think the second thing is that there…
There are really two stories going on in the world economy at the moment. Um so, we've talked about the obviously the impact of the conflict in the Gulf, the effect on on energy prices. So, that is…
I don't think it's an argument for saying if you just raise the inflation target to 3% everything would be okay. I don't think that's the that's the answer to that question. I think um that would be…
I think it is important to have that flexibility. Now, it's quite interesting. I I made some remarks on this in an speech in Reykjavik last Friday. There are sort of two oversimplifying a bit. There…
It's just wrong this like it's just it's like it sounds smart but it's dumb like and it's been dumb for like I can show you newspaper articles from 1935 where people argued that we've invented…
The killer feature of Shopify in 2006 was that it looked beautiful. It's that's the only thing it had that was truly different from everything else. Like other software had better features, was…
Every existing piece of software on planet Earth is now just a prompt for a better version of that piece of software. And I think like all the things that people say like wouldn't it be great if we…
The shape of companies is going to change. Absolutely. Companies will be smaller. And but there will be vastly more of them which is amazing because like I think the world's actually deeply…
Society's society is as rich as how many members it has that are, you know, adding something to the common mission of society, right? Like every country is a project. Every the project the the core…
Right now in the end of March 2026, inflation is running at about a 3% level, which is still a 50% miss relative to our 2% target. For a central banker, that's still a big miss. ... I understand…
If we lower rates when the economic fundamentals don't justify it, it's going to push up inflation and then people are already suffering from their affordability is hurt by high inflation. And if…
If Fed independence and central bank independence is lost, how will the American people feel it? They will feel it in higher inflation year in year out. ... Once central bank independence is lost, it…
We know that tariffs raise prices because we're buying goods from abroad. And if those prices are going to go up, some of that is going to be borne by American consumers. We know that. Question is,…
Inflation is still too high. Like today we're we're meeting inflation is still running at around a 3% rate. So it's still well above our target. When it's been above our target for 5 years, that…
Retail is in the worst shape of all because the long-term health of the retail industry is sort of got to be in question for many of these players. And then they obviously have restaurants and malls…
We raised we're in the middle of raising a billion dollar special situations fund that we put out really quickly to our clients and sadly they couldn't move as fast as the market. With real we had a…
We can't buy anything and nobody really can buy anything until the debt market stabilized. So we need that's why today's announcement was so critical because yes it does put a floor under the most…
We had over 800 million dollars of cash twice and we still got crocked. And by the way, that's the functioning of the market mechanics today, which is it's dominated by index ETF, the exchange-traded…
I think the market may be a little ahead of itself on the slope of the recovery... if you look at the real economy, the restaurants, the shopping centers, the hotels in China, hotels are running…
The student loans should be at one percent it should be the most subsidized loan in the country and because the government gets a tie is they get to get the taxes on their future income if they've…
When he cut corporate taxes he could have tied he could have tied that to job creation in the United States there could have been a more direct link to bring you back jobs you have an opportunity now…
I don't think you want to throw out capitalism I don't think there's a better system it needs to be regulated and people just like a child in the crib you you put a child you don't you don't put him…