Be a team player? You lose.
Investment Portfolio Update - April 2024
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I have had people ask me why I continue to talk in to an empty room? How many people follow you. Why are you doing this? When will you get a real job?
Simply put: It’s a mission. A calling.
When I was 14 years old, I had the “C” ripped off my jersey for an entire year while playing AAA hockey for Little Caesars after being captain for 4 years. I had new kids come in from other teams and throw temper tantrums only to have that entire team plus the coaching staff admit to me at the end of the year that I should’ve been the captain the entire time.
I am not here for the accolades. I am not here for fiat BS to collect some cash. I am used to the ups and downs. I don’t do things to attract friends or have people “like” me.
We have lost purpose, ethics, morality, and truth in society. That is my opinion, however I sense that many can feel that with the amount of conversations I have.
This is a big reason I left school, fiat jobs, and did my own thing. Trying to remove myself from the hamster wheel, the matrix, and think clearly.
Nothing made sense as my studies grew the last 15 years. How come merit or truth wasn’t asserting itself on the markets?
If you play the game the “right way” you get crushed in todays economy.
Pay off your debts? You lose.
Don’t go in to massive debt? You lose.
Stand firm on principles and morality in business decisions? You lose.
Don’t accept bailouts? You lose.
Can you feel the craziness? Can you feel the upside down world we live in? Over 20% of the companies in the S&P are zombies. They cannot pay the debts they owe. How is this real life? So I chose to create new opportunities in a new system. I am not playing the old fiat legacy system game anymore.
Ill say it a different way:
Rates moving wildly. Goal posts conastly moving.
Talk of bailouts and bail-ins (banks take your cash right from account.)
Macro Environment is a mess with wars everywhere.
Yellen and brain dead leaders around the world pushing more wars.
Border crisis, etc, etc…
Does this sound like a market you want to be attached to?
Call me crazy but I smell bad sh*t coming on the horizon with a TON of opportunities for people who are ready.
$34T in debt and growing exponentially by the day.
I am trying to humble myself and continue to learn from others and pick their brains.
Hence why I am focusing on recording interviews with people from all over the spectrum that can give me thoughts and insight that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
Opt out, that IS the new revolution.
Here is the allocation last few months:
November 2023 Portfolio Allocation
January 2024 Portfolio Allocation
April 2024 Portfolio Allocation
Bitcoin (NOT “crypto”)
Continues to rip the faces off people who don’t understand it.
Bitcoin breaks all our models.
All finance and economics training is pseudo science.
Keynes and MMT is fake. Not based in reality or merit. Cannot and doesn’t last forever.
New system being built as the lifeboat off the sinking titanic.
Will continue to eat all assets just like you see it doing to my portfolio.
Why would I rebalance and trade my lifeboat back in to the sinking fiat system?
There will only be 21 million bitcoin EVER and there are 42 million millionaires in the world. They all have to fight over that small amount with all their worthless fiat dollars….
Bitcoin has network effects and the Log chart helped me realized why bitcoin continues to go up and to the right over time. Fundamentals like wallet creation, coins in long term storage, and hash rate all keep getting stronger in each market.
We have about ~59% in bitcoin.
**I expect bitcoin to become majority of my portfolio again in the next few years as fiat decreases in value.**
Real estate (positive cash flowing rental real estate)
Doing alright. Moving along.
Moving tenants in and out and dealing with cities. Makes you realize it should all be in bitcoin where no one can mess with you.
Whether you or someone else is managing you need to stay on top of this asset class.
Need time, experience, and energy especially to get going initially.
We have about ~14% in rental real estate.
**Remember that the dollar is debt. Real estate like bonds over last 40 years has become more expensive and produces less yield if you don’t buy properly.**
Commodities (gold, silver, oil wells, uranium, copper, wheat, corn, etc..)
Still holding on right now as silver has really shot up along with gold. The metals have been starting to sniff out the chaos that is here. The wars and the money printing and the exponential debt growth ahead.
Save your finite time in hard assets, not worthless pieces of paper that will be taken from you when the ruling class wants it. (See: BAIL IN)
We have about ~14% in commodities and physical gold/silver.
Paper (stocks/bonds/IRA/etc.)
The bitcoin I have in IRA keeps ripping in dollar fiat terms but won’t add more until new system is in order.
Will look forward to using my money to purchaser undervalued companies in the new economy that may pay me more bitcoin back in dividends.
Reminder here of the 3 bitcoin spot ETFs we invested in.
I am adhering to the "invest in what you know" principle and have deliberately not touched this at all as you have seen in recent quarters.
We have about ~2% in paper.
***Special tip: watch the credit market (bonds) especially the 10 year treasury, to see where the markets are going to go. That tells us where the stock and rest of markets will go.
Cash/Businesses
Might be moving some cash in to business I am working on and media podcast I am running interviewing experts in finance freedom and bitcoin.
The trading cards have been going well and continue to sell a decent amount after a rough first quarter. The conference we just went to in Dallas really helped.
Slowly moving more and more in to bitcoin and DCA each week. May take some li
Cash on hand is also good in case our long term view of inflation is wrong. If we experience massive deflation, and the dollar increasing in strength (DXY), then we will be able to use the dry powder (cash) to buy many more assets as well.
We have about ~11% in cash.
Summary
Hyperbitcoinized world (where fiat dollars don’t exist) is still a ways off because the world is not ready for it yet. It could happen in an instant if the people woke up one day and chose hard money to protect themselves, but that is not how life works.
I choose to fight for it because in my eyes it is the only game in town that can heal so much of the broken economy we find ourselves trying to operate under. The mal-incentives because of fiat have made the game almost unplayable for the average person. I feel a deep sense of calling to fighting for that new system built on honest money and a merit based world.
Maybe I am too idealistic and too optimistic about the future and my belief in humans is too strong. I don’t believe so though, as any other avenue I choose to spend my finite time and energy in seems fruitless.
I have tried many of them. They seem so far down the river from the oil spill that I find myself trying to bail out the toxins with a fishing net far downstream. Or wasting time on a politician that is akin to picking a new captain of the Titanic after we already struck the iceberg.
Whats the point?
Build the world we would like to see…
Stay strong,
Brandon
I am always a student. I am no expert. Freedom advice, not financial advice.
Afterword
My newsletter is based off of 20+ years of historical, political, and monetary study plus my experiences in investing.
I spent the first 10 years studying politics and history.
The last 10 years I have studied monetary, fiscal history and policy, along with investing through what I call our “family office.”
In that time I have 15’xed our net worth through contrarian views and watching what people do, not what they say.
I believe you must know the financial and money games for ANY of the political side to make any sense.
If you like freedom and can’t stand politics and bridges to nowhere, racial polarization, division, hate, looting, and all the moral decay in society than you might just be a bitcoiner.
To fix all these problems we have a solution where you cannot be racketeered by governments anymore through inflation.
“Bitcoin fixes this.”
You don’t need a lot, just a couple percent is a vote for freedom and could change the world forever.
Study bitcoin. Invest in what you know.
I ONLY want to trade my finite time for finite assets, NOT trade my finite time for infinite pieces of paper/digits on a computer.
MAKE A FAIR TRADE FOR YOURSELF.