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<p>Luke Gromen is the founder of Forest for the Trees. In this episode, we discuss why the U.S. debt cycle is reaching a breaking point, how AI and geopolitics are accelerating structural change, and why we could be witnessing the endgame of the fiat era. </p>
<p>We get into why stablecoins may represent the next phase of the petrodollar system, the rise of financial repression, the return of inflation as a political tool, and why gold and Bitcoin are the only real safe havens this decade. </p>
<p>He also lays out how AI threatens the debt-based monetary system itself, why autonomous labor could cause mass unemployment, and why meaning, not money, might become society’s scarcest resource. </p>
<p>In this episode: </p>
<p>- Why the Fed has to cut rates and inflate away debt </p>
<p>- The new “petrodollar” built on stablecoins </p>
<p>- The coming wave of financial repression </p>
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