183,522,916,504,534

That is the number of crypto tokens created over the created over the last 8 years. Yes, One-hundred eight-three trillion, five hundred twenty-two billion, nine hundred sixteen million, five hundred four thousand, five hundred thirty-four.

But you are saying “Hey Chris, DOGE is only worth $0.001 $0.75 $0.38 $0.48 while Bitcoin is worth $44,000 so they aren’t all worth the same.

Well, let’s convert them all into Bitcoin equivalent. Each week I calculate the change in supply for each crypto and multiple it by the ratio of its price to Bitcoin’s price that week. I then compart the increase in Bitcoin equivalent crypto to the change in the Fed Balance Sheet. You know, that terrible, awful, debasing, dollar destroying institution.

The supply of crypto is up almost 500% during this period whereas the supply of dollars is up 140%.

While you can’t make more than 21 million Bitcoins, you can make an unlimited amount of many cryptos – including Etherium and Dogecoin. And of course an unlimited number of currencies.

I expect that cryptocurrencies will be about as value as those baseballs cards I used to collect … along with every other kid my age. It’s simply economics: Unlimited supply = $0 value.

Out of Stock: PS5s and Houses

H/T to my friend Bill McBridge at calculatedriskblog.com who keeps posting insane data on the housing markets…

  • Sacramento: Sales up 52%, Inventory down 45%, 0.7 Months Supply
  • Maryland: Sales up 27%, Inventory Down 61%, 0.8 Months Supply
  • Colorado: Sales up 41%, Inventory Down 66%, 0.7 Months Supply
  • Houston: Sales up 58%, Inventory Down 43%, 1.4 Months Supply
  • South Carolina: Sales up 41%, Inventory Down 56%, 1.3 Months Supply
  • Portland (OR): Sales up 46%, Inventory Down 53%, 0.8 Months Supply
  • New Hampshire: Sales up 13%, Inventory Down 57%, 0.8 Months Supply
  • Boston: Sales up 35%, Inventory up 9%, 1.8 Months Supply
  • Atlanta: Sales up 32%, Inventory down 65%, 0.8 Months Supply
  • North Texas: Sales up 33%, Inventory down 65%, 0.6 Months Supply

The only silver lining for buyers is month-over-month inventory has started to rise in most places. Unfortunately, that’s also a seasonal thing.

With inventory numbers like this, housing prices will continue their rapid increase even with slightly higher rates and inventory.