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WatchSteve Barbour is a mechanical engineer who has worked in upstream oil and gas production since 2011, and he started Upstream Data…
WatchIn an interview with Time, President Trump said certain levels of inflation will pay off the national debt very rapidly, a sharp b…
WatchThe Signal vs. Noise hosts react to President Trump's comments that inflation can pay off the national debt "very rapidly," which…
WatchPeter St. Onge went all in on Yahoo in 1996, retired at 25, and lost most of it when the dot-com crash took MicroStrategy, one of…
WatchJackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma and Brian Cubellis look at bitcoin's highest weekly close since January, a quarter up about 43% a…
WatchJackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, Liam Nelson and Brian Cubellis put six minutes on the clock for each story: reports that OpenAI…
WatchEight major AI models shipped in two weeks, and the hosts open with several reported data points: open-weight models carrying most…
WatchBob Burnett was CTO of Gateway before starting Barefoot Mining in 2017, and now chairs the Ocean mining pool. He sorts miners into…
WatchBrandon Quittem joined Swan as an advisor in 2019, came up through marketing and now runs client experience, so he has watched Bit…
WatchBitcoin ETFs just logged their biggest inflow day of 2026 at $999 million, and year-to-date flows turned positive as holders who s…
WatchThe average Bitcoin ETF holder is back in profit for the first time since January, and the data says most of them held through the…
WatchMeta's Muse personal agent is the story of the week, and Michael calls it the biggest thing that has happened in AI so far. It is…
WatchGary Brode's argument is that the Federal Reserve has become a spectator. The Fed sets the overnight rate, but corporate borrowing…
WatchThe Clarity Act failed its Senate cloture vote, and Brian argues the ethics fight reads as cover for the banking lobby's fear of d…
WatchSignal vs. Noise, with Cam Stromme sitting in for Michael, debates whether Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for AI labs to pace t…
WatchMichael, Liam and Brian open on the Clarity Act, where new text dropped overnight ahead of a Senate vote on September 15, the ethi…
WatchLiam sits down with Alfonso Gómez-Jordana, co-founder and CTO of Crossmint, who built Google's "I'm not a robot" captcha as an int…
WatchTyler Campbell spent years on Zoom calls walking people through their first hardware wallet, one seed phrase at a time, before mov…
WatchAn ex-OpenAI and Anthropic researcher says there is over a 10% chance AI ends humanity within the decade, and his warning has alre…
WatchOn this episode of The Last Trade, a weekly show from Onramp Media, hosts Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, and Brian Cubellis ope…
WatchOpenAI just declared that AGI has arrived, launching GPT-6 Astra five days ago with materials calling it the start of the "AGI era…
WatchMichael, Liam, and Brian open Final Settlement's first live stream with the Liquid Network exploit that drained roughly 4,000 bitc…
WatchThe show opens on the worst stretch for government bonds in decades, with Japan's 10-year yield at 3% for the first time since 199…
WatchGlobal bond yields just climbed to their highest level since 2008, with Japan's 10-year notes touching 3% for the first time since…
WatchMichael, Liam, and Brian open on BitGo acquiring NYDIG's institutional trading business for a reported $42.5 million, and on Russi…
WatchRoberto Rios argues that Japan has been the world's creditor for thirty-five years, and that the bill for it is now coming due. He…
WatchParker Lewis argues that if you are not at least a little worried about your setup, whatever it is, that is the gap in your knowle…
WatchThe show opens on Stanley Druckenmiller's Wall Street Journal op-ed, Let the Bond Market Speak, calling out his former protege Sco…
WatchStanley Druckenmiller just used a Wall Street Journal op-ed to publicly break with his old friend and former Soros Fund Management…
WatchThe Treasury doubled its bond buyback operation and Bitcoin ran from roughly $63,000 to $80,000 in a week. Michael, Liam, and Bria…
WatchThe Treasury just told markets not to trust their own eyes. Jackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, and Liam Nelson put four stories on…
WatchJackson opens on the Bloomberg headline that Bessent deployed the buyback in a sign of concern over rising yields, then walks the…
WatchThe United States just crossed the $40 trillion debt milestone, and new Treasury data shows foreign buyers pulling back. Jackson M…
WatchThis week Michael, Liam, and Brian open on NVIDIA becoming the "Federal Reserve of AI," the $500 billion in seller financing behin…
WatchGen Z is moving money out of the stock market and into sports betting. Jackson Mikalic, Brian Cubellis, Liam Nelson, and Michael T…
WatchThe team opens on BlackRock cutting the IBIT in-kind conversion minimum from $25M to $1M, and argues the post-Cold Card rush from…
WatchMichael Saylor's Strategy is selling bitcoin while Trump Media just added more than 4,000 BTC. Jackson Mikalic, Brian Cubellis, Li…
WatchThe CLARITY Act has slipped to a September 15 Senate vote, and bitcoin did not move. This week Michael, Liam, and Brian make the c…
WatchJackson Mikalic, Michael Tanguma, and Brian Cubellis break down four stories on the shot clock: gold's roughly $200 breakout follo…
WatchJackson opens with the on chain data: July 31 was bitcoin's most active day since 2024, with nearly a million addresses moving and…
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