About George Gammon: George Edward Gammon is a Real Estate Investor, entrepreneur and teacher of macro economics on youtube.
Prior to 2012, George started and operated multiple businesses in the convention and advertising space. He grew his last business to $24 million in annual revenues and over 100 employees.
After 12 years as a successful entrepreneur, George semi-retired at the ripe old age of 38 and shifted into real estate, where he has remodelled and flipped over 40 properties in and out of the United States.
Today, George lives in Medellin, Colombia, and manages a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio. He either sells for a profit or rents his properties out for positive cash flow. George is also a gifted teacher with a passion for learning and teaching macroeconomics.
If he’s not breaking down complicated topics like the repo markets, then you’ll find him interviewing the World’s top experts in their respective fields.
If you would like to get to know George better, then check out his very entertaining video blog below. See what it’s like investing in real estate in and around Medellin Colombia.
About Jim Bianco: Jim Bianco, president and founder of Bianco Research LLC., and Jimmy Song, founder of Programming Blockchain Inc., face off in this heated discussion on Bitcoin, DeFi, which system is superior, and whether DeFi is truly “decentralized”. Bianco makes the case for decentralized finance and discusses the many ways in which it can improve upon our traditional finance systems. The song challenges the notion that DeFi is “decentralized” and explains why Bitcoin is the only true possessor of long term scarcity and value. Filmed June 17, 2021.
Bianco Research, L.L.C. is a service provider that offers qualitative and quantitative macro investment analysis for the institutional investor. The company’s president and market analyst, Jim Bianco, sat down with the hosts of CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday to discuss the crypto economy. Bianco is a believer in digital currencies and has been investing for the last four years, collecting a basket of crypto assets since then.
About Michael Saylor: Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded and leads MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor authored the 2012 book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything.
In this video, Michael Saylor explains why his board of directors is going to be paid in Bitcoin. He also asserts that Bitcoin is the most reliable store of value.
Bitcoin is simple secure savings account in cyberspace. And the savings account has been yielding 200% tax-free interest for a decade, and this year, it has done more. The board of MicroStrategy was excited with the news of being paid with Bitcoin. If you have $200,000 in cash, and you convert it to Bitcoin, depreciating about 30% a year. This is still far better than a bank savings account. MicroStrategy employees were enthusiastic about it.
The next step for the company is to roll out Bitcoin on-ramps and a Bitcoin savings account. Any employee that wants to diversify can put the money into the company's stock. But putting it in Bitcoin will make it appreciate. If you'd asked any company in February 2020 about Bitcoin strategy, the management might not be able to give you a correct answer. But now, everybody knows about Bitcoin.
If you're buying low-yield bonds, you're getting 0%, meanwhile, the money supply has expanded by 20%. This ⁿshows your purchasing power is falling by 20%. So this breaks people out of their traditional patterns. MicroStrategy went through the process of considering everything, and the board finally decided Bitcoin was the strongest Treasury asset that they could find. If you have $100 billion worth of cash, and it's yielding zero, you're losing 20% of its value a year. So, it's a liability. You can flip it to an asset if you convert it into something which is going up 200% a year.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin has been rising 100% a year but it went up 800% last year. Bitcoin is a trillion-dollar asset going up to $1 trillion. If you enter now and convert your cash, which is depreciating into an appreciating asset that is appreciating, to create a positive value. Tesla made more money in six weeks following its announcement that it would accept Bitcoin for payments.
Money has two components. The first is the currency component, which is a medium of exchange and a payment network. And the second is an asset component, which is a long-term store of value. People use the dollar as a medium of exchange, and they use the debt, ETF, and index funds as a store of value.
About Michael Saylor: Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded and leads MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor authored the 2012 book The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything.
In this video, Michael Saylor discusses the significance of Bitcoin and its role in fixing the defects in gold and other fiat currencies. He refers to Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Lebanon as examples of countries with collapsed currencies.
Bitcoin, Saylor asserts, is the first engineered monetary system in the history of the human race. It is an asset sitting on an open computer network, and it won't exceed 21 million or 2.1 quadrillion Satoshis. Bitcoin has come to fix the defects associated with gold. The fundamental problem with the gold standard, he says, is that there is no mathematical protocol or engineering protocol that links the paper gold or the fiat derivatives to the underlying asset.
So, as soon as the US got control of the gold supply, they kept printing more money. When other countries realized the US was printing too much money, they started asking for the gold back and gold was flowing outside the US. The then US president Nixon said he couldn't keep giving people gold back. So we defaulted on the gold standard and everybody is now free to print as much money as they want.
Another issue raised by Saylor is the loss of purchasing power associated with fiat currencies. For example, if you don't put your money in the S&P Index, you'll lose 7% of your purchasing power every year for a decade. So, in the Western world, the store of value is shifting your assets to ETFs, Index funds, and stocks.
Saylor explains that Bitcoin has come to cater to the “unbanked” people who are segregated from the financial world.
Apart from that, Bitcoin has come to eliminate the enormous fees charged by financial service providers such as Visa, MasterCard, and banks, for money transfer and the delays associated with such.
In addition, Saylor says, Bitcoin is unique in that with your smartphone, you can download your software wallet and send money instantly for free on a lightning network. If you store your money in Bitcoin, it will rise in value. You're not at the mercy of financial institutions and you're not losing your purchasing power. Other fiat currencies lose value every year.
Most currencies are pegged to the dollar and the problem is that the US dollar which used to lose half a percent a month is now losing two percent a month because the Fed keeps printing money. So, to get out of such a problem, Saylor affirms, you must adopt Bitcoin, as done by the president of El Salvador. That is, back your currency with an asset that is appreciating.
Bitcoin is appreciating 120% every year while the S&P is appreciating 12% a year for a decade while gold appreciates by 2%. So, Bitcoin is the perfect apex property of the human race that you should buy for your children to inherit.
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