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Sep 10, 2025 1 hr 17 min

73: Gain-of-Function Monetary Policy

from This Week in Bitcoin

The jobs myth collapsed overnight. The Fed’s the fall guy, and Scott Bessent’s hint is loud and clear: buy Bitcoin. Affiliate Links 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes BLS Revises Job Growth Down by 911,000 Between April 2024 and March 2025 Employers added 910 fewer jobs than initially estimated, per BLS revision US payrolls benchmark revision estimate suggests labor market weaker than previously thought PDF: The Fed’s New “Gain-of-Function” Monetary Policy Wholesale prices fell unexpectedly in August US wholesale prices decelerated in August PPI inflation August 2025: Prices unexpectedly declined 0.1% Anatomy of a Billion-Download NPM Supply-Chain Attack 🚨 There’s a large-scale supply chain attack in progress Charles Guillemet on X: "Update on the NPM attack: The attack fortunately failed, with almost no victims.🔒 BTC Sessions 😎 on X: Confirmed unaffected NPM attack Electricity costs are surging, and AI could supercharge demand. - YouTube How AI infrastructure is driving a sharp rise in electricity bills - YouTube Bitcoin can 'easily' get to $200,000 before year-end, says Fundstrat's Tom Lee - YouTube Congress bill mandates Treasury report on strategic bitcoin reserve U.S. Congress Demands 90-Day Report on Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Security US Treasury Given 90 Days to Outline Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Congress bill mandates Treasury report on strategic bitcoin reserve Lightning Channel Stats: H1 2025 The Fed Will Make Bitcoin Worth Millions! - YouTube Mel Mattison (@MelMattison1) MUSIC Hard Work [Live in Amsterdam]

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  1. 0:00 Welcome into TWiB 73!
  2. 1:29 CNN: Job Growth Weaker Than Previously Reported
  3. 6:30 Fiscal Dominance and the Federal Reserve
  4. 8:36 Lynn Alden on the U.S. Entering Fiscal Dominance
  5. 9:37 Jamie Dimon's Response to the Jobs Revisions Report
  6. 10:15 Trump Administration Attacking the Fed
  7. 14:29 Treasury Secretary Scott Besson on the Fed's Policy
  8. 25:01 Federal Debt in the Driver's Seat
  9. 25:19 Lynn Alden on What the Central Bank Does Wrong
  10. 27:27 FOMC Meeting on September 17th
  11. 32:43 NPM Supply Chain Attack Affecting Bitcoin Wallets
  12. 57:34 Growing Cost of Electricity
  13. 1:02:24 Tom Lee Predicts Bitcoin at $200,000 By Christmas
  14. 1:04:06 Congress Requires Report on Bitcoin Strategic Reserve
  15. 1:07:35 Mel Madison on Central Banks Putting Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet
  16. 1:15:13 Hard Work [Live in Amsterdam] by Theo Katzman

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