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Withering Away

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Watching the Trump coin (available on SlopeCharts under the easy to remember ticker $TRUMP) is fascinating. I’m not sure if this thing is kind of like a popularity poll or, like Bitcoin, a proxy for the general risk on/risk off zeitgeist. It blasted from pennies to almost $80 in a few days, and since then has withered away to less than a third of its peak. I pretty much is guaranteed to be worth $0 by January 20, 2029, but I truly wonder what spasmodic actions are going to take place in between.


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