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The Debasement Trade Just Got Real
$147 trillion is repositioning. Here is where it is going.
Teeka Tiwari & Houston Molnar
October 13, 2025
Editor’s Note: On Friday, October 10, a mass liquidation event hit the crypto markets, sending many tokens down to multi-week lows. But we're already seeing signs of recovery, thanks to crypto becoming an established asset class.
Here's the important thing to remember: Our long-term bullish thesis for crypto remains intact. We'll have more for you on what happened and our game plan to preserve and grow your wealth in this market in the coming days.
In today's essay, we'll cover another example of institutional adoption, further highlighting the disconnect between sentiment and fundamentals... and how you can use that to your benefit.
What the “Debasement Trade” Means for Your Wealth
When I first started working for Teeka as his junior analyst, he told me the real secret to life-changing wealth wasn’t about timing the market to the second.
He said it was about spotting generational trends in their infancy… Planting your flag early… And letting the unstoppable force of time do the heavy lifting.
At the time, I didn’t fully get it. But once I saw his track record, I realized he was right. And it rewired how I’ll look at wealth-building forever.
In 2003, Teeka spotted Apple right as the iPod was set to explode. At the time, the company was about to launch a version compatible with non-Apple PCs. It was a classic adoption story of going from a small, niche market to a massive market.
When he recommended Apple, it was trading at a split-adjusted price of $0.26. Today, shares trade around $254. That’s a 97,592% gain, or enough to turn every $1,000 into $976,923.
Then in 2015, Teeka identified another early trend – the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). To position his subscribers for this idea, he urged them to buy Nvidia.
When he recommended NVDA, shares traded at about $0.85 (split-adjusted). Right now, they’re trading above $192. That’s a staggering 22,488% gain.
And of course, in 2016 he risked his reputation to recommend bitcoin around $400 – when the mainstream dismissed it as a joke.
Teeka knew digital asset adoption was a generational trend that would make early investors fortunes.
Today, that “joke” is the fifth-largest asset in the world with a market cap pushing $2.4 trillion.
Here’s why I’m telling you this now…
There’s another massive trade Teeka identified years ago… One Wall Street is only now waking up to. And these past examples prove we’re still early to the game.
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