Marty sits down with Melody Wright, housing market analyst and investigative researcher, to discuss the deepening cracks beneath the surface of the U.S. housing and labor markets — from record-low home sales and rising mortgage delinquencies to corrupted government data, municipal fiscal collapse, and the broader consumer credit stress that mainstream financial media continues to ignore.

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The AI revolution is accelerating faster than most people realize, but major institutions aren't accounting for it in their economic projections. While the CBO just added $1.4 trillion to this decade's deficit forecast, they completely missed the potential disruption from artificial intelligence.

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In this episode:

- The viral "something big is happening" AI post and what it missed

- Why institutional adoption of AI tools faces massive inertia despite breakthrough capabilities

- How the managerial class creates friction against disruptive technologies

- CBO deficit projections ignore AI's potential economic disruption

- Private credit losses pile up as AI disrupts software companies

- Lightning Labs releases agent payment tools - the machine payable web arrives

- Why Bitcoiners can't be complacent about agent payments

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00:00:00 - Introduction from Bitcoin Investor Week NYC

00:02:06 - The viral AI post breakdown and institutional blindness

00:06:41 - Testing AI tools at TFTC - reality vs hype

00:09:00 - Managerial class inertia against disruption

00:11:05 - CBO deficit projections miss AI disruption completely

00:16:26 - Private credit losses from AI disruption begin

00:21:00 - Bitcoin and the machine payable web revolution

00:24:06 - Lightning Labs agent payment tools launch

00:26:00 - Competition for agent payments - Bitcoin must compete

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Marty sits down with Jesse Shrader, co-founder and CEO of Amboss, to discuss the evolution of the Lightning Network, how Taproot Assets are bringing stablecoins and multi-asset trading to Bitcoin, the launch of Amboss's RailsX peer-to-peer exchange and Magma MCP tool for AI agents, and why Bitcoin is positioned to become the backbone of global commerce and foreign exchange settlement.

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