Let's Appreciate

Kyla Scanlon
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Nov 4, 2021 • 15min

The Federal Reserve | Is Inflation Really Transitory?

Everything you need to know about the Fed!  From the Everything You Need to Know about series, a series of ~10 min primers on different topics across the stock market, the economy, and crypto.   According to Wikipedia: The Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States of America. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of the Federal Reserve Act, after a series of financial panics (particularly the panic of 1907) led to the desire for central control of the monetary system in order to alleviate financial crises. Over the years, events such as the Great Depression in the 1930s and the Great Recession during the 2000s have led to the expansion of the roles and responsibilities of the Federal Reserve System.   And here we are now!   Notes here: https://horse-quart-a62.notion.site/F...
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Nov 3, 2021 • 11min

Stablecoins | Everything You Need To Know

Everything You Need to Know About the Stablecoins  https://horse-quart-a62.notion.site/S... Utility token (coins are a method of payment, tokens are use cases, have more functionality) - just know that it is meant to represent $1 USD  Stablecoins act as a safe store of dollar value, without the volatility associated with most other cryptocurrencies; they are also easily transferred, traded, and even sometimes used for payment (like a bank kinda)
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Nov 2, 2021 • 10min

The Metaverse | Everything You Need to Know

Everything You Need to Know About the Metaverse   The Metaverse is an expansive network of persistent, real-time rendered 3D worlds and simulations that support continuity of identity, objects, history, payments, and entitlements, and can be experienced synchronously by an effectively unlimited number of users, each with an individual sense of presence All materials in these videos are used for educational purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of said material, please send me an email, kyla.scanlon@outlook.com   DISCLAIMER:This video does not provide investment or economic advice and is not professional advice (legal, accounting, tax).  The owner of this content is not an investment advisor.  Discussion of any securities, trading, or markets is incidental and solely for entertainment purposes.  Nothing herein shall constitute a recommendation, investment advice, or an opinion on suitability.  The information in this video is provided as of the date of its initial release.  The owner of this video expressly disclaims all representations or warranties of accuracy.  The owner of this video claims all intellectual property rights, including copyrights, of and related to, this video.
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Nov 1, 2021 • 12min

Supply Chains | Everything You Need to Know

Lets talk about supply chains So things have been pretty weird ever since Evergiven, the og stucky boi boat - but there are a host of other problems here - that precede Evergiven Its supply and demand, its a broken transport industry, its just-in-time inventory, and amazonian expectations, and its the Federal Reserve
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Oct 29, 2021 • 20min

Why Money isn't Real

Memes are great. They get people invested. They allow for a certain element of growth and inflow because they are: Funny Trade FOMO fundamentals Create investable narratives Are real, because memefication manifests an element of reality So despite all the memecoin run ups, the stock market going absolutely bonkers, public accounting being a bit ~loose~, and the Metaverse likely being our future - we have to remember that even though a lot of it doesn’t *feel* real, it is. SHIB is real. It’s a meme. The U.S. Dollar is real. It’s a meme of the collective belief in the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. Accounting is a meme. It makes companies go up even when they shouldn’t. Everything is a meme! (except the supply chain) But money IS REAL (little bit of clickbait on the title). But we can’t forget at the end of the day that we *exist* feet on the ground. A bit dark - but if you die in the metaverse, you die in real life.
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Oct 26, 2021 • 27min

The Core: The Importance of Connectors

So whats going on here? We have bad policy (and we CAN fix this, as Huntsman outlines, as CoinCenter advocates for, etc). We have inflation - We do have rising prices in the U.S., and this is mostly a function of high demand and constrained supply chains, as well as outsized fiscal and monetary stimulus. However this is not hyperinflation - what happened in Weimar is that they were trying to spend their way out of a war debt situation, with the assumption that they would win the war (which didn’t work) and instead they inflated away their economy The main takeaway from this piece is: Policy is fundamentally broken (and we already knew that). And we know that we can fix it. We just have to engage. But policy is broken because we have forgotten about the connectors. We have become so accustomed to the “consumption on-demand” society that we operate in that we have forgotten that this society hinges on people. We have to remember people are behind EVERYTHING. Take care of each other.
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Oct 20, 2021 • 18min

volmaggedon and the rise of passive

Full piece: https://kyla.substack.com/p/consumpti...   In partnership with https://www.simplify.us/etfs   A good piece on XIV: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-xiv-meltdown-1b0608110b9f + https://ttmygh.medium.com/grant-williams-0-00-before-we-get-going-heres-the-bit-where-i-remind-you-that-nothing-we-b28f6db77   00:00​​​​ - Intro  00:40  - What is this?  01:44 - Correlation and Volatility  05:17 - Volmaggedon  07:57 - Passive Flows  09:31 - Demographics  12:31 - The Flows  15:01 - Market Structure  16:08 - Does Bitcoin Fix This?  17:36 - Final Thoughts   Blog: https://kyla.substack.com   Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylascanlon/   TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ky.now?lang=en  Twitter: https://twitter.com/kylascan   Music by Pick Patek - My Mind Is A Barrel (feat. Raindrop Relly & Charles Hussle) - https://thmatc.co/?l=B6CED606​​​  Music by Hip Gnartic - Carnivores - https://thmatc.co/?l=8102AD70   All materials in these videos are used for educational purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of said material, please send me an email, kyla.scanlon@outlook.com  DISCLAIMER:This video does not provide investment or economic advice and is not professional advice (legal, accounting, tax).  The owner of this content is not an investment advisor.  Discussion of any securities, trading, or markets is incidental and solely for entertainment purposes.  Nothing herein shall constitute a recommendation, investment advice, or an opinion on suitability.  The information in this video is provided as of the date of its initial release.  The owner of this video expressly disclaims all representations or warranties of accuracy.  The owner of this video claims all intellectual property rights, including copyrights, of and related to, this video.
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Oct 19, 2021 • 18min

consumption on-demand | the peril of the consumer

Full piece: https://kyla.substack.com/p/consumpti...  Music by Pick Patek - My Mind Is A Barrel (feat. Raindrop Relly & Charles Hussle) - https://thmatc.co/?l=B6CED606​​​ All materials in these videos are used for educational purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. If you are or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video and have a problem with the use of said material, please send me an email, kyla.scanlon@outlook.com  DISCLAIMER:This video does not provide investment or economic advice and is not professional advice (legal, accounting, tax).  The owner of this content is not an investment advisor.  Discussion of any securities, trading, or markets is incidental and solely for entertainment purposes.  Nothing herein shall constitute a recommendation, investment advice, or an opinion on suitability.  The information in this video is provided as of the date of its initial release.  The owner of this video expressly disclaims all representations or warranties of accuracy.  The owner of this video claims all intellectual property rights, including copyrights, of and related to, this video.
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Oct 11, 2021 • 35min

the theories of interconnectivity

https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-theories-of-interconnectivity 00:00​​​​ - Intro 00:51  - Theories of Interconnectivity 02:07 - Financial Education 03:20 - The Theories 03:44 - The Not Enoughness Theory 08:48 - The Absurdity Theory 14:28 - The Speculation Theory 21:18 - The Community Theory 24:46 - The Influence Theory 28:06 - Flexation Theory 31:45 - Theory of Information Synthesis 34:19 - Final Thoughts
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Oct 6, 2021 • 14min

supply chains and stucky bois

The general theory of not-enougness: We have skewed demand and not enough supply. When thinking about supply, you have to think about the inputs. For example, think about what it takes to buy an apple at the grocery store: Apple seed goes to farm, farmer farms apple tree, apple gets picked from tree, apple gets loaded into truck, truck drives to warehouse, warehouse drives to grocery store, apple gets unloaded, you pick up apple, you walk to cash register, you buy apple, you drive home. That’s a LOT. Imagine that apple process x n^100000 and that’s what supply chains are like. There are so many opportunities for things to go wrong, and thus, they often do (especially when you have exogenous shocks like a global pandemic). If all the sudden the trucks stop delivering to the stores, you can no longer purchase your apple. Bad! And that’s kind of what’s going on right now: The thing theory: People are demanding things but there aren’t enough things to produce the things (labor, machinery, trucks etc). And that compounds as people demand MORE things. This works until it doesn’t

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