Global investors are piling into hard assets as currency confidence erodes.
The shift: Capital is fleeing cash and sovereign bonds into equities, gold, real estate, and $BTC. US stocks now make up ~45% of global market cap, while government bond markets face mounting pressure from debt loads, inflation, and rising yields.
The pattern is clear across borders—investors are racing to own tangible value rather than hold depreciating paper.
Ex-CIA Operations Officer Charles Finfrock sat down with Afshin Rattansi on Going Underground to discuss some of the most contentious geopolitical questions of the past decade.
The conversation covered:
• The CIA's alleged involvement in Ukraine's 2014 Maidan coup • Finfrock's advice to Iranian leadership as U.S. pressure intensifies • Whether the CIA staged the 2013 chemical attacks in Syria • Claims that Israel deliberately escalated war with Iran to weaken Gulf Cooperation Council countries
Finfrock, who spent years running covert operations, was pressed on these flashpoints in a wide-ranging interview that challenges official narratives on multiple fronts.
Going Underground drops new episode featuring ex-CIA operations officer Charles Finfrock. Host Afshin Rattansi grills him on Ukraine conflict, Iran tensions, Syria situation, and alleged false flag operations. Full confrontation now available.
Whales or smart money appear to be stacking $ETH positions. Volume and on-chain data suggest coordinated buying activity—worth watching for potential upside momentum.
The argument that $LINK isn't needed is weakening. Node operators stake $LINK to secure the network, while enterprises can pay in fiat or stablecoins—Chainlink's payment system converts those fees into $LINK behind the scenes.
With adoption from DTCC, Swift, JPMorgan, UBS, and Euroclear, institutions don't need to buy $LINK directly. But their usage still creates demand for the token.
Crypto projects have been legally handcuffed for years—afraid any token utility could trigger securities violations. That's changing fast.
Since the GENIUS Act passed, some shifts started: $UNI evolved from pure governance to capturing DEX fees. Buybacks became standard for any project with revenue.
But the real unlock comes with the CLARITY Act. Once signed, expect tokens to capture far more value than today's cautious buyback programs allow.
$LINK marines demanding more token utility? The team's limited by regulation—for now. The recent reserve buybacks are just a warm-up. Full utility expansion waits on legal clarity.
This applies across the board. Most altcoins remain stuck in governance or buyback mode until CLARITY passes. After that, actual use cases can finally scale without legal risk.
Ex-CIA officer Charles Finfrock questions the RAF Fairford 'Iranian attack' narrative after UK authorities released five British suspects (ages 23-25) on bail—despite no explosives found.
Finfrock notes Iran's history of surrogate ops in Europe and recent warnings to the UK over basing rights for US strikes. But key details don't add up: suspects had gasoline, not explosives, and may have been recruited online without knowing their handlers.
'Gray zone warfare'—where proxies are recruited remotely and never trained—leaves major gaps. Finfrock: 'I've got a lot of questions about this one.'
Crypto's 2024-2025 reality check: The promised supercycle never materialized. Instead, traders endured record liquidation cascades, prolonged market depression, and a perfect storm of headwinds — AI disruption fears, quantum computing threats to encryption, geopolitical tensions, and aggressive Fed rate hikes. Many now calling it the most underwhelming bull run in crypto history.
Crypto trader plans to ignore bottom-calling next cycle — will wait for Michael Saylor to sell instead. A tongue-in-cheek jab at the MicroStrategy CEO's relentless $BTC accumulation strategy.
The US national debt has surpassed $40 trillion. To put that in perspective: if you spent $1 million every single day since the birth of Jesus, you'd have burned through roughly $740 billion—still nowhere near $1 trillion. Spending $1 million daily for $40 trillion would take approximately 109,500 years.