While US and Chinese leaders exchanged niceties in Beijing, bond markets were selling off hard. Thirty-year Treasury yields hit their highest level since 2007, inflation prints came in hot, and the Strait of Hormuz started looking like a live test of Bitcoin as money for enemies. 🔗 https://bitcoinproducts.com In this episode: US-China summit theater and what was actually accomplished Global bond yields hitting highs not seen since 2007 Hot CPI and PPI prints versus the AI productivity narrative Treasury repo "dirty tricks" and lending against its own debt Strait of Hormuz fallout: motor oil, sulfur, fertilizer, and helium Iran's IRGC demanding Bitcoin for passage insurance TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - US-China summit and CEO theater 00:01:06 - Beijing's holding pattern 00:02:11 - Bond markets send the real signal 00:04:18 - Hot inflation prints and Fed fears 00:05:55 - AI productivity or transitory 2.0? 00:07:26 - 1999 Cisco chart echoes 00:09:00 - Hormuz physical supply shocks 00:11:06 - US debt math and sovereign spiral 00:13:09 - Treasury repo market creativity 00:16:26 - Japan hyperinflation warnings 00:17:13 - China refinery cuts: who blinks first 00:18:44 - Iran's Bitcoin-only Hormuz insurance 00:21:21 - Bitcoin as money for enemies SUBSCRIBE › Newsletter (free): https://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ › YouTube: https://youtube.com/@TFTC?sub_confirmation=1 FOLLOW US › X: https://x.com/tftc21 › Nostr: https://primal.net/tftc FOLLOW MARTY › X: https://x.com/MartyBent › Timestamp: https://www.ten31timestamp.com/ › John Arnold: https://x.com/JohnArnoldTen31 › Ten31: https://ten31.xyz TFTC #MartyBent #JohnArnold #Bitcoin #Hormuz #SovereignDebt