[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @LukeGromen Luke Gromen Luke Gromen posts on X about china, fed, inflation, imo the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2936015319/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +20% - X Month XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +28% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -X% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::2936015319/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -XXXX% - X Month XXX +90% - X Months XXXXX +0.10% - X Year XXXXX +26% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2936015319/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.13% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.48% - X Months XXXXXXX +8.60% - X Year XXXXXXX +20% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::2936015319/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::2936015319/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) #5521 [countries](/list/countries) XXXX% [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) XXXX% [currencies](/list/currencies) XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [china](/topic/china) #1357, [fed](/topic/fed) #233, [inflation](/topic/inflation) 2.5%, [imo](/topic/imo) 1.88%, [russia](/topic/russia) 1.88%, [$22000oz](/topic/$22000oz) 1.88%, [$990b](/topic/$990b) 1.88%, [money](/topic/money) 1.88%, [powell](/topic/powell) 1.25%, [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@stimpyz1](/creator/undefined) [@derivativesdon](/creator/undefined) [@scottmelker](/creator/undefined) [@teddy21btc](/creator/undefined) [@drtwiter](/creator/undefined) [@adoptbtc](/creator/undefined) [@dmd711](/creator/undefined) [@mrbriggens](/creator/undefined) [@schnapsideeg](/creator/undefined) [@jllcam12](/creator/undefined) [@txmctrades](/creator/undefined) [@michaeljmcnair](/creator/undefined) [@davidconell1951](/creator/undefined) [@menlobear](/creator/undefined) [@goldseabridge](/creator/undefined) [@mrwebber4](/creator/undefined) [@tomcapital](/creator/undefined) [@newlowobserver](/creator/undefined) [@kingkong9888](/creator/undefined) [@cotymontana](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Apple, Inc. (AAPL)](/topic/$aapl) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::2936015319/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Important signpost IMO. There is still a large & highly convinced contingent that AI will not be that disruptive & certainly not anytime soon. Many asset prices are quite mismarked relative to where they may trade when reality changes skeptics' views for them. Let's watch"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946944020225085598) 2025-07-20 14:43:21 UTC 342.9K followers, 81.5K engagements "As Trump may fire Powell headlines hit I find myself thinking about this CNN story from 2004. We all laughed at this story in 2004; no ones laughing anymore are they Stupid expensive wars have consequences. 🤷♂"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945512238246232186) 2025-07-16 15:53:58 UTC 342.9K followers, 67.4K engagements "@AVG_84 Strongly disagree on food Come to Little Italy in Cleveland for pizza"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947492637994565891) 2025-07-22 03:03:22 UTC 342.8K followers, 2138 engagements "Why doesnt OPEC want the Anglo-American news agencies at this conference 🤔"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943323186101158146) 2025-07-10 14:55:27 UTC 342.8K followers, 56.2K engagements "It would seem the "We are getting Russia to divorce China and go with the west" narrative is dead. or someone is desperately trying to kill it"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945112267965493538) 2025-07-15 13:24:37 UTC 342.8K followers, 40.8K engagements "Raises questions for the war hawks in Wash DC regarding their desire to go to war v. Russia &/or China: X. Is the US grid vulnerable if we went to war with Russia &/or China (Yes very.) X. If the US grid went down what % of US population might be dead in X year (30%.)"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944782759790076111) 2025-07-14 15:35:16 UTC 342.8K followers, 125K engagements "If you think that a) the Fed is independent and b) that Fed independence is critical to the US. .then why not advocate for the US going back on a gold standard Nothing would make the Fed more independent than a gold standard. "Whoa whoa whoa.not THAT independent""  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947738161570058650) 2025-07-22 19:18:59 UTC 342.9K followers, 49.7K engagements "@DRTWITER @Stimpyz1 @Tom__Capital @DerivativesDon @TXMCtrades @Teddy21btc @scottmelker They began facilitating net gold settlement of offshore CNY surpluses XX years ago & setting up offshore CNY clearing banks in major physical gold hubs - London Dubai Singapore Switzerland. Now they're accelerating it by opening up HK. Gold in CNY since 2014:"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947038664636109215) 2025-07-20 20:59:26 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "An (accidental) gauge of actual US inflation in recent years: Two genetic brothers only X years apart in age playing the same sport in the same stadiums to the same crowds.and yet the younger brother makes nearly as much in X years as older brother did in XX years.🤯 Via @jameslavish"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946222610003660829) 2025-07-18 14:56:43 UTC 342.9K followers, 208.2K engagements "@DerivativesDon The crash is already well underway IMO. Chart of BTC/S&P Total Return looks remarkably like the chart of gold/Weimar German Reichsmark. Remember stories of Americans with gold-backed USD living like kings in 1920s Weimar Berlin Bitcoiners are doing the same thing now"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946230899441353071) 2025-07-18 15:29:40 UTC 342.8K followers, 1447 engagements "@jarheadwho Did you know that American lenders buy alternative data to track your creditworthiness For example: People who consistently let their phone battery drain too far are higher credit risks than people who keep their battery charged"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945484268446138700) 2025-07-16 14:02:49 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "@michaeljmcnair Better to buy factories and gold with wildly overvalued USDs & wait for the mathematically inevitable"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944764000048132534) 2025-07-14 14:20:44 UTC 342.8K followers, 1896 engagements ""An unlikely aberration has taken place in global bond markets for the first time on record: yields on emerging-market bonds in local currencies have fallen below US Treasuries." Non-sequitur"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1717977548078870751) 2023-10-27 18:52:20 UTC 342.8K followers, 313.5K engagements "@TheMichaelEvery @Sorenthek @yanisvaroufakis yup.but that requires BTC adding a zero (aka massive USD deval v. BTC) to make the math work"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946266253796008280) 2025-07-18 17:50:09 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "1/ Im recording a 5-10 min YouTube video tonight to be released later this week; pls drop some questions below & Ill touch on as many as I can on a best efforts basis. Thx (Also pls feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel.)"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947719202124538076) 2025-07-22 18:03:39 UTC 342.9K followers, 18.1K engagements "@BigBrune Did you know that American lenders buy alternative data to track your creditworthiness For example: People who consistently let their phone battery drain too far are higher credit risks than people who keep their battery charged"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945484186753638580) 2025-07-16 14:02:30 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "Economic history books may come to remember 2022 as "Biden's Bitcoin Bottom" 👇 Biden and the Autopen were on the other side of the trade of many people who bought BTC in 2022-24🤯"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945536147058266138) 2025-07-16 17:28:58 UTC 342.9K followers, 50.3K engagements "@matthew_pines Me: Mildly curious about how a XXX can disappear into thin air without a trace like one did in 2014 when a week after it disappeared a XXX pilot who flew to SE Asia all the time near where the XXX in question disappeared said it was impossible for a XXX to just disappear. 😳"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948417051980087625) 2025-07-24 16:16:39 UTC 342.9K followers, 2193 engagements "Now do the quorum of the US industrial & technological base sitting in China. And then do the value of AAPL stock & the Nasdaq & the SPX when they are populated with companies that have no manufacturing capabilities. Then do the value of corporate bonds when debt used for buybacks defaults b/c these companies have no way to make their products"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943000489903427673) 2025-07-09 17:33:10 UTC 342.8K followers, 2159 engagements "@LuckyLuke369 a) Is that true When US set up Resolution Trust Corp it was the beginning of the recovery no b) Speaking of that why hasn't a bad bank been set up in the US for commercial real estate"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947998520163832253) 2025-07-23 12:33:33 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "China's record $990B trade surplus in 2024 would have been a flat balance of trade if China's 2024 gold imports (1384t) were valued at $22000/oz. IE - the issue isn't China's trade imbalance w/the world the issue is the USD is wildly overvalued v. gold. Gold balances trade"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944761834671587789) 2025-07-14 14:12:07 UTC 342.9K followers, 69.5K engagements "Truewho would want to live in a 7000 sf house with 7-bedrooms & XXX baths amid old growth trees on nearly an acre for $949k (with the same weather as NE USA but with far saner politics) 😉"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947477040912896270) 2025-07-22 02:01:23 UTC 342.9K followers, 111.8K engagements "@dmitryuduman China has factory surpluses. Russia has commodity surpluses. Most other players (incl retail) are deficit/debtors that will run out of gold quickly. Either they keep buying gold to mark it up over time or if pushed too far they get very aggressive about recycling into gold"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944763151821537553) 2025-07-14 14:17:22 UTC 342.8K followers, 1521 engagements "When you see me in the US you must think you went back in timeChina is so advanced in technology adoption. -Jensen Huang NVDA CEO via WSJ"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945480530343911436) 2025-07-16 13:47:58 UTC 342.9K followers, 22.4K engagements "Gold is also specifically mentioned. Big signpost IMO"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946187008591671571) 2025-07-18 12:35:15 UTC 342.9K followers, 75.4K engagements "@GraphCall @Kathleen_Tyson_ Yup. Left chart = Chinese exports to Saudi up & to the right. Right chart = Swiss gold exports to Saudi strong since 2022 despite oil prices that would not support such purchases. Western consensus remains in denial about what these flows suggest"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945123735599448128) 2025-07-15 14:10:11 UTC 342.9K followers, 3366 engagements "@Stimpyz1 @Tom__Capital @TXMCtrades @DerivativesDon @Teddy21btc @scottmelker it's not about making things better or cheaper for consumers. It's about stopping the bleeding of USD hegemony thanks to overweaponization of the USD under Obama Trump Biden & Trump. Start there & work backward"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947019022907707684) 2025-07-20 19:41:23 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "The post-1971 structure of USD reserve status that mandates an open capital acct means foreigners MUST buy up US equities & US land. Mandate that USD deficits can only be settled in gold & BTC let their px rise revalue US gold buy down debt/GDP massively cut rates US wins"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944141471809982734) 2025-07-12 21:07:01 UTC 342.8K followers, 78.4K engagements "2/ Once you frame it like this you see how hypocritical and political the whole "Fed independence" debate is. It's about allowing the "animals" that are "more equal than others" continue to be bailed out of their bad decisions but not all "animals.""  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947738973025046926) 2025-07-22 19:22:13 UTC 342.9K followers, 17K engagements "@BillGilmartin2 It's been happening for XX years via gold but most western analysts have been too dogmatic to notice"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947020143537619417) 2025-07-20 19:45:50 UTC 342.8K followers, 2230 engagements "Thanks for the great conversation @DariusDale42 and @menlobear Really enjoyed it Full link below"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948482204188774551) 2025-07-24 20:35:33 UTC 342.9K followers, 26.7K engagements "@DavidConell1951 Trade surplus was $990B; thats net of all exports and imports. And for millennia gold doesnt do anythingexcept balance trade. $990B/1384t = $22000/oz"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944769842113868011) 2025-07-14 14:43:57 UTC 342.9K followers, 1117 engagements "Many know of the "Curse of the New Headquarters** " but have we ever seen a company build a $2.5B new HQ after having lost nearly $240B the prior X yrs 🤔 ** A theory suggesting that companies often experience setbacks or decline after constructing a lavish new headquarters"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944828705617944827) 2025-07-14 18:37:51 UTC 342.8K followers, 59.5K engagements "@JohnGreco4 Surplus. Receipts up XX% y/y a slight slowdown from May. Great #. Outlays down X% y/y biggest y/y drop since March down $188B month/month. Is the $188B month/month drop sustainable or just a timing issue Let's watch"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944428173023703095) 2025-07-13 16:06:16 UTC 342.9K followers, 3107 engagements "It is quickly becoming a matter of US national security to find repressible balance sheet ASAP. Per regulations now on the books gold &/or BTC "mooning" could provide such repressible b/s. If you don't understand how yet as Jimi Hendrix once sang "The hour is getting late.""  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1944424309931262361) 2025-07-13 15:50:55 UTC 342.9K followers, 87.7K engagements "Yet another Trump Administration official leading with rare earth magnets. Extremely critical signpost when the guy who can print USDs & who said we have all the leverage is now talking about mutual respect and leading with rare earth magnet supplies 👇"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1938645153398345855) 2025-06-27 17:06:37 UTC 342.8K followers, 43.4K engagements "The US is trying to convince the public the US is going to reshore & grow aggressively while simultaneously trying to convince domestic & foreign bondholders their holdings will not be inflated away. Inflation-adjusting war reparations = Soc Security & Medicare. History rhymes"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945871786593165654) 2025-07-17 15:42:41 UTC 342.9K followers, 30.3K engagements "@Stimpyz1 @Teddy21btc @scottmelker @DerivativesDon Allocating my capital XX% in 0%-yielding stablecoins & XX% in 40%+ CAGR BTC gets me blended X% over the course of the cycle & completely blows up the bank funding model. I'm happy govt is happy banks are not happy but oh well. Now if you tell me BTC won't rise anymore"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946959083501699430) 2025-07-20 15:43:12 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "Question of multiplier of BTC v. stablecoins IMO. IE BTC mkt cap has been 2.5x to 10x that of stablecoins. Bessent says stablecoins gonna be $3.7T by end of decade. Let's assume he's right. Implies BTC mkt cap of $9T at 2.5x & $37T at 10x or $440k to $1.7m/BTC. 2020-21 showed us that with enough asset inflation real economy inflation & weak enough USD this can significantly drive growth & reduce deficit. I suspect this would work again in this case"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947004314435657933) 2025-07-20 18:42:56 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "@tlb3047 Home prices have risen XXX% here in the last XX yrs precisely because it is a very good place to live"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947491796377886737) 2025-07-22 03:00:01 UTC 342.9K followers, 1921 engagements "Fly in the we are the biggest consumer market in the world ointment"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1943048293824496027) 2025-07-09 20:43:07 UTC 342.8K followers, 101.1K engagements "The US is in a new Cold War it cannot afford to lose. -US investor consensus The Fed must maintain its independence at all costs. -also US investor consensus Only one of these can be true. The Cold War or the real value of USTs. Choose wisely Chair Powell"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948504133578731734) 2025-07-24 22:02:41 UTC 342.9K followers, 20.4K engagements "How is it in US national interest to be canceling a proposed transformer manufacturing facility in "Flyover Country USA" when we are short transformers & revamping the grid Comforting Wash DC trade war slogans don't conduct electricity - we need actual infrastructure for that"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1920521031019634940) 2025-05-08 16:47:50 UTC 342.8K followers, 29.4K engagements "Dostoevsky on US corporate execs that offshored their labor factories & even Gain of Function research to China and the U.S. policymakers that allowed and encouraged them to do it:"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1948086208325894497) 2025-07-23 18:22:00 UTC 342.9K followers, 58.3K engagements "@NewLowObserver @LambDownUnder Fair. Howd TOL do v. BTC over last X yrs"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946351430828446049) 2025-07-18 23:28:37 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "@GraphCall @Kathleen_Tyson_ .@GraphCall you cited Rogoff above. Did you ever read this from him in 2016"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945126345102524792) 2025-07-15 14:20:34 UTC 342.9K followers, 1586 engagements "@mrbriggens Understood. And where do you think that money came from to drive up sports prices to levels most can't afford them "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." The price of Taylor Swift tickets has collapsed in BTC terms even as they have spiked in USD terms"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946269344763109597) 2025-07-18 18:02:26 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "@GregoryPietsch "Scientists have synthesised gold using particle accelerators but the amounts have been tiny and the costs extremely high""  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947641429511045504) 2025-07-22 12:54:36 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "@DerivativesDon @Stimpyz1 @Teddy21btc @scottmelker Disagree - its supply is measurable as is money supply"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947371205272404478) 2025-07-21 19:00:50 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "@monetaryskeptic The rise of gold IS the deleveraging. That's what lots of investors miss esp. "Milkshake" adherents. Said differently take gold to $10000=20000 and the only pain would be on the real values of USD-denominated bonds (& other fiat bonds.)"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1942292157395538359) 2025-07-07 18:38:31 UTC 342.8K followers, 3399 engagements "@Stimpyz1 @scottmelker @DerivativesDon Who doesn't have a .com retail franchise these days though And certainly as a % of US consumer spending it has to be well 80%"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946946687328497699) 2025-07-20 14:53:57 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "@cap_endurance "Deficit spending under a gold standard leads to much higher rates." Deficit spending also leads to above-target inflation (as we've seen) but Fed is to politically captured to stop it IE - gold would make them independent :)"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947755901294645532) 2025-07-22 20:29:29 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "@SchnapsideeG @mrbriggens it's literally an almost perfect apples to apples comp IMO"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946227032016191907) 2025-07-18 15:14:18 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements "@DerivativesDon It's yet another way the US has become increasingly Weimar like an entire generation of young people whose time preference has been forced to become very high living only for today b/c of the cumulative bad decisions of their parents' & grandparents' generation"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946228887148503253) 2025-07-18 15:21:40 UTC 342.8K followers, 1376 engagements "@CALWINVIX @CotyMontana Who's one of the biggest advertisers in the US (Rx) Who's their biggest payor (US govt) It's all interconnected"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946227934462697968) 2025-07-18 15:17:53 UTC 342.9K followers, 1119 engagements "One of the most important and biggest mean reversion trades in XXX years👇 It's footprints can be seen in gold prices gold flows UST and western sovereign bond markets.and yet most macro participants have not had the trade on (long gold short LT western sovereign bonds.)"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1947017144417284101) 2025-07-20 19:33:55 UTC 342.9K followers, 109.1K engagements "@realdaysoflore Where are the gamblers getting the money"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1946234482144497841) 2025-07-18 15:43:54 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements "Alpha occurs when the narrative re-converges to reality"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945236075586232695) 2025-07-15 21:36:35 UTC 342.8K followers, 49.9K engagements "@HayekAndKeynes @randomal974199 @Stimpyz1 Economists that blindly believe higher population will always be better in for a rude awakening when AI takes many of the jobs in the biggest employer in XX of XX states (healthcare) in next few yrs Which blows up the banks when those people can't pay their mortgages & car loans"  [@LukeGromen](/creator/x/LukeGromen) on [X](/post/tweet/1945145666251993529) 2025-07-15 15:37:20 UTC 342.8K followers, 1917 engagements
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Luke Gromen posts on X about china, fed, inflation, imo the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @stimpyz1 @derivativesdon @scottmelker @teddy21btc @drtwiter @adoptbtc @dmd711 @mrbriggens @schnapsideeg @jllcam12 @txmctrades @michaeljmcnair @davidconell1951 @menlobear @goldseabridge @mrwebber4 @tomcapital @newlowobserver @kingkong9888 @cotymontana
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"Important signpost IMO. There is still a large & highly convinced contingent that AI will not be that disruptive & certainly not anytime soon. Many asset prices are quite mismarked relative to where they may trade when reality changes skeptics' views for them. Let's watch"
@LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 14:43:21 UTC 342.9K followers, 81.5K engagements
"As Trump may fire Powell headlines hit I find myself thinking about this CNN story from 2004. We all laughed at this story in 2004; no ones laughing anymore are they Stupid expensive wars have consequences. 🤷♂" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-16 15:53:58 UTC 342.9K followers, 67.4K engagements
"@AVG_84 Strongly disagree on food Come to Little Italy in Cleveland for pizza" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 03:03:22 UTC 342.8K followers, 2138 engagements
"Why doesnt OPEC want the Anglo-American news agencies at this conference 🤔" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-10 14:55:27 UTC 342.8K followers, 56.2K engagements
"It would seem the "We are getting Russia to divorce China and go with the west" narrative is dead. or someone is desperately trying to kill it" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-15 13:24:37 UTC 342.8K followers, 40.8K engagements
"Raises questions for the war hawks in Wash DC regarding their desire to go to war v. Russia &/or China: X. Is the US grid vulnerable if we went to war with Russia &/or China (Yes very.) X. If the US grid went down what % of US population might be dead in X year (30%.)" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-14 15:35:16 UTC 342.8K followers, 125K engagements
"If you think that a) the Fed is independent and b) that Fed independence is critical to the US. .then why not advocate for the US going back on a gold standard Nothing would make the Fed more independent than a gold standard. "Whoa whoa whoa.not THAT independent"" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 19:18:59 UTC 342.9K followers, 49.7K engagements
"@DRTWITER @Stimpyz1 @Tom__Capital @DerivativesDon @TXMCtrades @Teddy21btc @scottmelker They began facilitating net gold settlement of offshore CNY surpluses XX years ago & setting up offshore CNY clearing banks in major physical gold hubs - London Dubai Singapore Switzerland. Now they're accelerating it by opening up HK. Gold in CNY since 2014:" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 20:59:26 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"An (accidental) gauge of actual US inflation in recent years: Two genetic brothers only X years apart in age playing the same sport in the same stadiums to the same crowds.and yet the younger brother makes nearly as much in X years as older brother did in XX years.🤯 Via @jameslavish" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 14:56:43 UTC 342.9K followers, 208.2K engagements
"@DerivativesDon The crash is already well underway IMO. Chart of BTC/S&P Total Return looks remarkably like the chart of gold/Weimar German Reichsmark. Remember stories of Americans with gold-backed USD living like kings in 1920s Weimar Berlin Bitcoiners are doing the same thing now" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 15:29:40 UTC 342.8K followers, 1447 engagements
"@jarheadwho Did you know that American lenders buy alternative data to track your creditworthiness For example: People who consistently let their phone battery drain too far are higher credit risks than people who keep their battery charged" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-16 14:02:49 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@michaeljmcnair Better to buy factories and gold with wildly overvalued USDs & wait for the mathematically inevitable" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-14 14:20:44 UTC 342.8K followers, 1896 engagements
""An unlikely aberration has taken place in global bond markets for the first time on record: yields on emerging-market bonds in local currencies have fallen below US Treasuries." Non-sequitur" @LukeGromen on X 2023-10-27 18:52:20 UTC 342.8K followers, 313.5K engagements
"@TheMichaelEvery @Sorenthek @yanisvaroufakis yup.but that requires BTC adding a zero (aka massive USD deval v. BTC) to make the math work" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 17:50:09 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"1/ Im recording a 5-10 min YouTube video tonight to be released later this week; pls drop some questions below & Ill touch on as many as I can on a best efforts basis. Thx (Also pls feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel.)" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 18:03:39 UTC 342.9K followers, 18.1K engagements
"@BigBrune Did you know that American lenders buy alternative data to track your creditworthiness For example: People who consistently let their phone battery drain too far are higher credit risks than people who keep their battery charged" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-16 14:02:30 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"Economic history books may come to remember 2022 as "Biden's Bitcoin Bottom" 👇 Biden and the Autopen were on the other side of the trade of many people who bought BTC in 2022-24🤯" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-16 17:28:58 UTC 342.9K followers, 50.3K engagements
"@matthew_pines Me: Mildly curious about how a XXX can disappear into thin air without a trace like one did in 2014 when a week after it disappeared a XXX pilot who flew to SE Asia all the time near where the XXX in question disappeared said it was impossible for a XXX to just disappear. 😳" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-24 16:16:39 UTC 342.9K followers, 2193 engagements
"Now do the quorum of the US industrial & technological base sitting in China. And then do the value of AAPL stock & the Nasdaq & the SPX when they are populated with companies that have no manufacturing capabilities. Then do the value of corporate bonds when debt used for buybacks defaults b/c these companies have no way to make their products" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-09 17:33:10 UTC 342.8K followers, 2159 engagements
"@LuckyLuke369 a) Is that true When US set up Resolution Trust Corp it was the beginning of the recovery no b) Speaking of that why hasn't a bad bank been set up in the US for commercial real estate" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-23 12:33:33 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"China's record $990B trade surplus in 2024 would have been a flat balance of trade if China's 2024 gold imports (1384t) were valued at $22000/oz. IE - the issue isn't China's trade imbalance w/the world the issue is the USD is wildly overvalued v. gold. Gold balances trade" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-14 14:12:07 UTC 342.9K followers, 69.5K engagements
"Truewho would want to live in a 7000 sf house with 7-bedrooms & XXX baths amid old growth trees on nearly an acre for $949k (with the same weather as NE USA but with far saner politics) 😉" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 02:01:23 UTC 342.9K followers, 111.8K engagements
"@dmitryuduman China has factory surpluses. Russia has commodity surpluses. Most other players (incl retail) are deficit/debtors that will run out of gold quickly. Either they keep buying gold to mark it up over time or if pushed too far they get very aggressive about recycling into gold" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-14 14:17:22 UTC 342.8K followers, 1521 engagements
"When you see me in the US you must think you went back in timeChina is so advanced in technology adoption. -Jensen Huang NVDA CEO via WSJ" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-16 13:47:58 UTC 342.9K followers, 22.4K engagements
"Gold is also specifically mentioned. Big signpost IMO" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 12:35:15 UTC 342.9K followers, 75.4K engagements
"@GraphCall @Kathleen_Tyson_ Yup. Left chart = Chinese exports to Saudi up & to the right. Right chart = Swiss gold exports to Saudi strong since 2022 despite oil prices that would not support such purchases. Western consensus remains in denial about what these flows suggest" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-15 14:10:11 UTC 342.9K followers, 3366 engagements
"@Stimpyz1 @Tom__Capital @TXMCtrades @DerivativesDon @Teddy21btc @scottmelker it's not about making things better or cheaper for consumers. It's about stopping the bleeding of USD hegemony thanks to overweaponization of the USD under Obama Trump Biden & Trump. Start there & work backward" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 19:41:23 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"The post-1971 structure of USD reserve status that mandates an open capital acct means foreigners MUST buy up US equities & US land. Mandate that USD deficits can only be settled in gold & BTC let their px rise revalue US gold buy down debt/GDP massively cut rates US wins" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-12 21:07:01 UTC 342.8K followers, 78.4K engagements
"2/ Once you frame it like this you see how hypocritical and political the whole "Fed independence" debate is. It's about allowing the "animals" that are "more equal than others" continue to be bailed out of their bad decisions but not all "animals."" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 19:22:13 UTC 342.9K followers, 17K engagements
"@BillGilmartin2 It's been happening for XX years via gold but most western analysts have been too dogmatic to notice" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 19:45:50 UTC 342.8K followers, 2230 engagements
"Thanks for the great conversation @DariusDale42 and @menlobear Really enjoyed it Full link below" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-24 20:35:33 UTC 342.9K followers, 26.7K engagements
"@DavidConell1951 Trade surplus was $990B; thats net of all exports and imports. And for millennia gold doesnt do anythingexcept balance trade. $990B/1384t = $22000/oz" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-14 14:43:57 UTC 342.9K followers, 1117 engagements
"Many know of the "Curse of the New Headquarters** " but have we ever seen a company build a $2.5B new HQ after having lost nearly $240B the prior X yrs 🤔 ** A theory suggesting that companies often experience setbacks or decline after constructing a lavish new headquarters" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-14 18:37:51 UTC 342.8K followers, 59.5K engagements
"@JohnGreco4 Surplus. Receipts up XX% y/y a slight slowdown from May. Great #. Outlays down X% y/y biggest y/y drop since March down $188B month/month. Is the $188B month/month drop sustainable or just a timing issue Let's watch" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-13 16:06:16 UTC 342.9K followers, 3107 engagements
"It is quickly becoming a matter of US national security to find repressible balance sheet ASAP. Per regulations now on the books gold &/or BTC "mooning" could provide such repressible b/s. If you don't understand how yet as Jimi Hendrix once sang "The hour is getting late."" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-13 15:50:55 UTC 342.9K followers, 87.7K engagements
"Yet another Trump Administration official leading with rare earth magnets. Extremely critical signpost when the guy who can print USDs & who said we have all the leverage is now talking about mutual respect and leading with rare earth magnet supplies 👇" @LukeGromen on X 2025-06-27 17:06:37 UTC 342.8K followers, 43.4K engagements
"The US is trying to convince the public the US is going to reshore & grow aggressively while simultaneously trying to convince domestic & foreign bondholders their holdings will not be inflated away. Inflation-adjusting war reparations = Soc Security & Medicare. History rhymes" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-17 15:42:41 UTC 342.9K followers, 30.3K engagements
"@Stimpyz1 @Teddy21btc @scottmelker @DerivativesDon Allocating my capital XX% in 0%-yielding stablecoins & XX% in 40%+ CAGR BTC gets me blended X% over the course of the cycle & completely blows up the bank funding model. I'm happy govt is happy banks are not happy but oh well. Now if you tell me BTC won't rise anymore" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 15:43:12 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Question of multiplier of BTC v. stablecoins IMO. IE BTC mkt cap has been 2.5x to 10x that of stablecoins. Bessent says stablecoins gonna be $3.7T by end of decade. Let's assume he's right. Implies BTC mkt cap of $9T at 2.5x & $37T at 10x or $440k to $1.7m/BTC. 2020-21 showed us that with enough asset inflation real economy inflation & weak enough USD this can significantly drive growth & reduce deficit. I suspect this would work again in this case" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 18:42:56 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@tlb3047 Home prices have risen XXX% here in the last XX yrs precisely because it is a very good place to live" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 03:00:01 UTC 342.9K followers, 1921 engagements
"Fly in the we are the biggest consumer market in the world ointment" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-09 20:43:07 UTC 342.8K followers, 101.1K engagements
"The US is in a new Cold War it cannot afford to lose. -US investor consensus The Fed must maintain its independence at all costs. -also US investor consensus Only one of these can be true. The Cold War or the real value of USTs. Choose wisely Chair Powell" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-24 22:02:41 UTC 342.9K followers, 20.4K engagements
"How is it in US national interest to be canceling a proposed transformer manufacturing facility in "Flyover Country USA" when we are short transformers & revamping the grid Comforting Wash DC trade war slogans don't conduct electricity - we need actual infrastructure for that" @LukeGromen on X 2025-05-08 16:47:50 UTC 342.8K followers, 29.4K engagements
"Dostoevsky on US corporate execs that offshored their labor factories & even Gain of Function research to China and the U.S. policymakers that allowed and encouraged them to do it:" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-23 18:22:00 UTC 342.9K followers, 58.3K engagements
"@NewLowObserver @LambDownUnder Fair. Howd TOL do v. BTC over last X yrs" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 23:28:37 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@GraphCall @Kathleen_Tyson_ .@GraphCall you cited Rogoff above. Did you ever read this from him in 2016" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-15 14:20:34 UTC 342.9K followers, 1586 engagements
"@mrbriggens Understood. And where do you think that money came from to drive up sports prices to levels most can't afford them "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." The price of Taylor Swift tickets has collapsed in BTC terms even as they have spiked in USD terms" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 18:02:26 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@GregoryPietsch "Scientists have synthesised gold using particle accelerators but the amounts have been tiny and the costs extremely high"" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 12:54:36 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@DerivativesDon @Stimpyz1 @Teddy21btc @scottmelker Disagree - its supply is measurable as is money supply" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-21 19:00:50 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@monetaryskeptic The rise of gold IS the deleveraging. That's what lots of investors miss esp. "Milkshake" adherents. Said differently take gold to $10000=20000 and the only pain would be on the real values of USD-denominated bonds (& other fiat bonds.)" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-07 18:38:31 UTC 342.8K followers, 3399 engagements
"@Stimpyz1 @scottmelker @DerivativesDon Who doesn't have a .com retail franchise these days though And certainly as a % of US consumer spending it has to be well 80%" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 14:53:57 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@cap_endurance "Deficit spending under a gold standard leads to much higher rates." Deficit spending also leads to above-target inflation (as we've seen) but Fed is to politically captured to stop it IE - gold would make them independent :)" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-22 20:29:29 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@SchnapsideeG @mrbriggens it's literally an almost perfect apples to apples comp IMO" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 15:14:18 UTC 342.9K followers, XXX engagements
"@DerivativesDon It's yet another way the US has become increasingly Weimar like an entire generation of young people whose time preference has been forced to become very high living only for today b/c of the cumulative bad decisions of their parents' & grandparents' generation" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 15:21:40 UTC 342.8K followers, 1376 engagements
"@CALWINVIX @CotyMontana Who's one of the biggest advertisers in the US (Rx) Who's their biggest payor (US govt) It's all interconnected" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 15:17:53 UTC 342.9K followers, 1119 engagements
"One of the most important and biggest mean reversion trades in XXX years👇 It's footprints can be seen in gold prices gold flows UST and western sovereign bond markets.and yet most macro participants have not had the trade on (long gold short LT western sovereign bonds.)" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-20 19:33:55 UTC 342.9K followers, 109.1K engagements
"@realdaysoflore Where are the gamblers getting the money" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-18 15:43:54 UTC 342.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Alpha occurs when the narrative re-converges to reality" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-15 21:36:35 UTC 342.8K followers, 49.9K engagements
"@HayekAndKeynes @randomal974199 @Stimpyz1 Economists that blindly believe higher population will always be better in for a rude awakening when AI takes many of the jobs in the biggest employer in XX of XX states (healthcare) in next few yrs Which blows up the banks when those people can't pay their mortgages & car loans" @LukeGromen on X 2025-07-15 15:37:20 UTC 342.8K followers, 1917 engagements