• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

RockDen Advisors

Wealth advisory & investment management

  • Who I Work With
  • Who I am
  • Process
  • Insights
  • Contact
  • Client Login

Energy prices

January 22, 2022 By Asi de Silva

The Price of Passive ETFs

This week, we’ve started to see the price of passive ETF investing. A rising number of ETFs have funneling money into the same large cap tech stocks leading to elevated valuations. These flows are now reversing and we are discovering the inherent problem of ETFs aiming to trade near the market close. ETFs promise to […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: bitcoin adoption, bitcoin mortgage, CAFE, carbon intensity, crypto scams, crypto tax, Defi exploit, energy capex, Energy prices, energy transition, ETFs, EVs, fuel efficiency, margin debt, NFTs, passive investing, S&P, Saquan Barkley, Volvo

November 20, 2021 By Asi de Silva

Signs of Market Froth

Signs of market froth are rising in both digital and traditional assets. As we show, 10-20% fees on transaction value makes no economic sense, but that is the reality on Ethereum today. This points to expectation of higher asset prices offsetting the punitive fee. Rivian, the recently IPOed electric vehicle maker, reached a $150bn market […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: bubble signs, covid lockdown, covid vaccines, Energy prices, Ether, Ethereum, Fed QE, Fed taper, gas fee, home prices, hourly earnings, inflation, John Deere, market froth, Metamask, mortgage, oil inventory, Peloton, Rivian, shelter inflation, Unions, vaccination rate, wage inflation, wages

November 13, 2021 By Asi de Silva

US Inflation Surge

US inflation surge is the big news this week in the media, although The Dispatch is tired of the subject. Last week, we reiterated our high inflation view in Dispatch #36, which was first laid out in Dispatch #23. We continue to see shelter inflation catch-up offset the coming slowdown in transitory items that are […]

Filed Under: The Dispatch Tagged With: bitcoin adoption, bitcoin on-chain data, Caroline Crenshaw, China Junk bonds, China RE policy, CPI, CPI components, crypto adoption, Defi, Defi regulation, Energy prices, Eric Balchunas, goods consumption, inflation, oil export ban, on-chain data, Pew Research, SEC, SEC crypto compliance, SEC crypto ETF approval, shelter inflation, sticky price inflation, stranded energy, Van Eck

October 30, 2021 By Asi de Silva

Pension Fund Announces Crypto Investment

The Houston Firefighters’ Pension Fund announced crypto investment last week to become the first US institution to disclose an allocation to digital assets. While there has been speculation of institutional investor participation, the $25m investment in bitcoin and ether by the $5.5bn asset fund, is the first official announcement. Could this event lead to the […]

Filed Under: The Dispatch Tagged With: a16z, bitcoin adoption, bitcoin institutional adoption, BlackRock, Coinbase, Cream protocol, crypto hack, crypto lobbying, Defi, Defi exploit, Digital Asset Policy, Energy prices, FTX, Houston Firefighters' Pension Fund, Magazine Covers, on-chain metric, tax policy, Wealth tax

October 16, 2021 By Asi de Silva

Bitcoin hashrate migrates to the US

Bitcoin hashrate migrates to the US with the share having doubled since April 2021 and reaching the #1 position globally. US share of bitcoin hashrate reached 34.5% in September, according to University of Cambridge because of China’s crypto mining ban. This geographic migration is important because US-based miners use far more renewable power than Chinese […]

Filed Under: News, The Dispatch Tagged With: bitcoin energy consumption, bitcoin ETF, bitcoin hash rate, bitcoin is worthless, bitcoin miners, bitcoin mining, bitcoin mining council, China policy, China RE policy, crypto lobbying, Energy prices, energy transition, ERISA, Jamie Dimon, Proshares, renewable energy

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Footer

  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • Disclosure
  • Form ADV

Copyright © 2023 RockDen Advisors · by My Project Solution