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Bitcoin Will Become "Less Volatile" And Larger Than Gold: 'The Bitcoin Standard' Author Authored by Zoltan Vardai via CoinTelegraph.com, Saifedean Ammous, the author of the 2018 academic book "The Bitcoin Standard," said that Bitcoin already functions as a medium of exchange and that volatility's effect on that is likely to diminish. Bitcoin (BTC) can serve as a medium of exchange as it becomes less volatile than gold while surpassing the market capitalization of the largest precious metal, wrote Ammous in a Tuesday X post. "Holding Bitcoin is using Bitcoin as money, and its...

US PMIs Lead The World As Manufacturing Tops 4-Year Highs, Services Sink Following Japan's ugly PMIs (Services lowest since March 2025) and Europe's disaster (weakest composite EU PMI since late 2023)... ...with prices surging... All eyes are on the US 'soft' survey data for signs of divergence (or contagion). With US 'hard' data improving notably, the preliminary soft survey data for May was mixed with improved performance in manufacturing was countered by a sluggish service sector. Flash US Services PMI Business Activity Index: 50.9 (April: 51.0). 2-month low. Flash US Manufacturing PMI: 55.3 (April:...

Chinese EVs Absent From U.S. Roads, But Parts Under The Hood Are Alarming For good reason, U.S. policymakers have resisted opening the domestic auto market to a flood of cheap, gasoline-powered Chinese cars and EVs. Such a move would crush Detroit into even more misery. It would accelerate the hollowing out of the nation's industrial base (something Europe willingly did), further degrade suppliers, and weaken the country's ability to convert truck production lines to tank production in wartime. However, while Chinese-made cars remain absent from U.S. highways, there has been a...