Three macro catalysts for crypto investors to watch.
1) Tariff driven recession
US Q1 GDP at -0.3% (consensus was +.03%) Polymarket odds of 2025 recession at 69%. This could reverse but recession looking likely atm.
Unknown: how bad, and how long?
Overall: negative for crypto short-term, but could be counteracted by the next two catalysts.
2) American capital flight trade
If continuation of U.S. stocks down, bonds down, dollar down, and gold + bitcoin + crypto goes then this is evidence of rebalancing away from America as the global store of value to alternatives.
Unknown: fast or slow take-off?
Overall: positive for crypto medium + long term. This is the decades long crypto thesis playing as a credibly neutral alternative money and property rights system.
3) Increasing global money supply
Fiat money supply (e.g. global M2) increasing as countries adjust to the above headwinds by printing money. Many indicators flashing that we're headed toward another money canon bonanza.
Unknown: magnitude and exact timing?
Overall: positive for crypto. Another decades long thesis playing out.
Impossible to be bearish
Take 1, 2, and 3.
Add catalysts like AI (do you think AIs will use gold, wellsfargo, and Delaware LLCs as their money system or are will they just use crypto?)
I want a crypto portfolio app with an AI that looks at all my holdings and gives me an forward looking analyst 1 pager of price, catalysts, and bear/bull case for each.