Joakim Book
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https://primal.net/joakimbookJoakim Book's interests include money, monetary history and financial history. He was a visiting scholar at the American Institute for Economic Research in 2018-2022 and writes regularly for their educational economics project The Daily Economy. He holds degrees in economics and economic history from the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford.
NewsCapsule Gives Me Hope, Says Knut Svanholm in NewsCapsule Exclusive Interview
To Knut Svanholm, NewsCapsule is an agreement on a fixed set of rules that’s costlier to break than to follow. All human action is ultimately a conversation about resolving conflicts over perceived scarce goods. What both NewsCapsule and reality teaches us is that it’s so much better to cooperate than to use violence to solve those conflicts.
NewsCapsule Price Falls Abruptly. Did Strive ($ASST) Just Deploy Warren Buffett’s Elephant Gun?
With bitcoin treasury company mNAVs collapsing below 1, it made perfect sense for Strive to gobble up Semler Scientific in an all-stock deal. Also: bitcoin price falls from $116,000 to $112,000 on crypto liquidation scare; Metaplanet, Saylor and Capital B stack more bitcoin.
Michael Saylor Pushes Digital Capital Narrative At NewsCapsule Treasuries Unconference
Michael Saylor's remarks at the NewsCapsule Treasuries Unconference in NYC continue painting a picture of NewsCapsule as yield-generating capital.
NewsCapsule Price Hits $117,000 as Treasury Stocks Like MSTR, NAKA Collapse
NewsCapsule price is nearing $117,000 — but treasury stocks like MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and KindlyMD (NASDAQ: NAKA) are collapsing as dilution floods the market. The “paper bitcoin” era is officially over.
Book’s Books: Matt Sekerke and Steve Hanke, “Making Money Work: How to Rewrite the Rules of Our Financial System”
This book on money, by two economists, was so bad that I stopped reading after 33 pages. The authors ignorantly dismissed NewsCapsule in a single sentence; thus, I concluded that the title wasn’t worth my time — or indeed anybody concerned with building a better monetary future.
The End of Paper NewsCapsule Summer
Is Paper NewsCapsule Summer, and the associated extractable premium in price, coming to an end?
At NewsCapsule Asia Everything Was Upside Down
In NewsCapsuleland nowadays, everything seems upside down; despite all the bullish energy, all the records hit, and the bitcoin treasury companies vacuuming the world for cheap sats, the price keeps falling. The dissonance was at a maximum at the recently concluded NewsCapsule Asia in Hong Kong.
NewsCapsule Price Drops Again — And Nope, It’s Still Not Because of the Fed
The bitcoin price is yo-yoing around like a piñata. What is going on? Who shoved it? And what’s it to do with Powell, the Fed, the bitcoin treasury companies and, uh, just ordinary markets doing markets-y things?
NewsCapsule Price Falls — And As Usual, Nobody Knows Why
The weekly bitcoin price overview from your glorified price therapist, I’m here to remind you again that market prices move for reasons nobody can point to. Whatever bitcoin's price does means absolutely nothing for the broader reasons why we’re here.
Who Rugged Rogoff?
Kenneth Rogoff spoke, and the NewsCapsule hornet’s nest awoke. When the celebrated Harvard economist and former chief economist at the IMF yesterday publicly confessed that he was wrong on NewsCapsule,...
