Foreign Matt What have you made of what is public in terms of the planned stock sales versus what happened immediately thereafter. I Appreciate being here and happy to talk about it. It's as the old saying where there's smoke, there's fire. like yes, it could be just an amazing coincidence, almost like a Pelosi level perfect sale here.

but I don't think so at all I mean it's one of these things where they filed the 10b51. Yes, we knew they were going to sell, but it was in January and then it'd be selling in February and then a couple days after that when the bank like runs into some very serious troubles. I am of the opinion that out of and I get it, there's a huge debacle going on here. Is this the most important thing for everyone to be looking at? No.

But I still am of the opinion that it should be looked at because the timing of it. It's a little bit too suspect in my mind and this I Know feeds into a sort of a bigger narrative right about how retail investors footing is compared to institutional investors or investors in the know Etc So sort of maybe just another revelation of that. although it would be criminal wrongdoing, right? Don't get me wrong, it's not like this would be allowed, but I guess Matt Um, what I would ask is just generally, how are you thinking about this Regional Bank crisis and how retail investors are approaching it right now. Oh, that's a great question.

There's so many things going on. So with respect to just Regional Banking and like that subset of really just the chaotic and erratic nature of the markets right now retail, there's They're very, very vocal. So yes, they were calling out the looking at. Let's call it the alleged insider trading.

But beyond that, a lot of retail over 300 million dollars worth of puts were set to expire in the money on Friday But people weren't going to make money because the underlying wasn't trading and a lot of Brokers were telling people they're not allowed to exercise it but because of the up Roar within retail. Finally they were able to Cave at the last second. This all happened last week. So finally a win.

but this was very much being perceived as once again Brokers seem to be placating if you will their market makers opposed toward their instead of the retail client. So I think that's one aspect of it and I would actually say that's a great win for retail. But the general mindset is there's a lot of excitement and I would argue it's traditionally thought to be quote unquote boring like we're seeing. Now that gold it got above of 2000, we're seeing a good push in silver even TLT some long-term bonds.

but maybe because it's I'll say the cool kid on the Block A lot of excitement right now in Bitcoin So I think we're almost seeing people pay attention to what's commonly thought of like as a store of value or at least that's how it's pitched. But yes, also a lot of people are talking about should we be dip buying some of these Regional Banks and arguably that's higher risk, higher reward. but there is a lot of chatter about that. Okay, since you mentioned Bitcoin I mean naturally.

One huge thing that I thought about even coming into Today's show was perhaps what a lot of people watching Silicon Valley on HBO years ago would have probably been thinking. anybody who has some type of interest in making sure that the dollar and banks of course do have that uh, that that succeeds in the future they're going to be betting against Bitcoin but now that you have the wavering of confidence in those Banks you have Bitcoin Now seeing this considerable move to the upside and stabilizing above 28 000, you know what has been the the chatter the father for conversation around the cryptocurrency landscape from your perspective. Oh, absolutely love this. And it almost connects to the previous question of just the chat about Svbs one of these things where you pull on a thread and all of a sudden it leads to so many other things.

So yeah, we could be talking about Banks inside or selling. Maybe it's mismanagement. why did they not hedge at their interest rate positions? All that. But as you get bigger here, we're starting to talk about other things of like okay potential weakness of the fractional banking system.

we could talk about. Maybe did the QE party go on for a little bit too long? maybe six months too long. Do we even trust in the fact that we have a Fiat currency not anchored to anything and the people who are unelected having a massive impact on our financial well-being It is a great overall monetary and economic conversation. And yes, I think Bitcoin is a common answer in it.

but the fact that the average person is now asking these pretty hard-hitting questions for me personally I think it's amazing because a lot of this financial education is just not simply taught here in the U.S I mean I Guess you could argue Fiat's Tethered to the full faith and credit of the United States government, which has worked well so far by and large. But I mean is this is debate? Is this like the Reddit the hot Reddit debate that's happening right now Matt I Mean it's definitely a conversation because like there's just so much chaotic nature in the market. But as you're alluding to a faith in the government I mean not long ago we were called crazy people. If we thought that five trillion dollars being printed within a year would cause inflation, we were told no way is that going to happen And then when they kind of caved and said okay, maybe people are right we were told that it was transitory.

So in the long run, the general sense of faith in the government? well I see what you're saying there And arguably we probably have bigger issues if we no longer do trust them. but in the short term on certain matters I mean they've definitely had various Follies Yeah, good point, and we have bigger problems if we don't trust them. But certainly a lot of people are going into crypto right now because they are asking those questions and we're seeing that. Resurgence Matt Good to catch up with you YouTube Host Matt Course giving his perspective for us today.

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