📩 Skippy & Doogles Weekly: GDP Games, Market Crashes & Bitcoin Stashes
🔥 Market Take of the Week
Is the U.S. cooking up a "strategic Bitcoin reserve," or is it just another government oddity? We’re calling it what it is: a $17 billion crypto stash on a flash drive labeled "strategic" with a Sharpie.
🎙️ This Week's Episode – Episode 218: Rewriting the Economy: Trump’s GDP Plan, Market Crashes & a Shifting World (Listen: Apple, Spotify)
This week, we dive into:
Trump's GDP Tweak: Why does the administration want to exclude government spending from GDP? Is it a data cleanse or just political math wizardry? AP piece
150 Years of Market Crashes: What history tells us about surviving market downturns—and why Skippy is rooting for the next one (yep, he's that guy). Morningstar article
A Fast-Changing World: Rising military budgets, tariff madness, and global uncertainty. How should you invest in this new era? Wall Street Journal piece
Plus, we ask: Should the government also create a Strategic Corvette Reserve? (Because logic is optional these days.)
📊 Investing Insight of the Week
Patience is profit. Historically, the market always recovers—but sometimes it takes four months, and sometimes it’s 13 years. The key? Having a strategy and knowing when to wait (whether it's for stocks or sneakers).
🚀 Round the Horn
Alexis made bank on Ethereum
Market Uncertainty is spiking with more volatility ahead
What are we really asking of Germany?
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