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9 Feb 2026 · 8 min · 3 chapters

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Episode Title

Rate CUTS And Money PRINTING Are Coming! Own These Assets

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Episode Overview In this episode, Anthony Pompliano discusses the anticipated shift in monetary policy driven by the collaboration between the Federal Reserve (Fed) and the Treasury. With insights from industry experts, Pompliano highlights the implications for inflation, tax refunds, and the importance of strategic asset ownership in the upcoming economic climate.

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Key Topics Discussed

  1. Collaboration Between Fed and Treasury
  2. Key Figures:
  3. Kevin Warsh: Nominee for Fed Chair, aiming for a cooperative approach with the Treasury.
  4. Scott Bessent: Treasury Secretary, backing Warsh's plans.
  5. Goal: A unified monetary policy to drive low interest rates and a "red-hot" economy.
  1. Current Economic Indicators
  2. Inflation Rates:
  3. Truflation suggests an inflation rate of 0.68%, significantly lower than the Fed’s target of 2%.
  4. Predictions of a potential drop in the official CPI from 2.7% to 1.5% in the coming months.
  5. Employment Growth: Stagnation in employment could force the Fed to cut rates more aggressively than anticipated.
  1. Predictions on Rate Cuts
  2. Market Expectations: Consensus suggests potential cuts of 75 to 100 basis points by 2026.
  3. Asset Recommendations: Pompliano emphasizes the importance of holding hard assets such as Bitcoin and gold in anticipation of increased money printing and economic stimulus.
  1. Impact of Record Tax Refunds
  2. Consumer Spending Surge:
  3. Average tax refunds expected to exceed $4,000 per individual in 2026.
  4. Historical trends indicate that increased tax refunds lead to greater consumer spending, which could further boost GDP.
  1. AI and Economic Growth
  2. Jensen Huang’s Insights:
  3. Described the current moment as a "once in a generation infrastructure build out" due to advancements in artificial intelligence (AI).
  4. Highlighted AI's transformative impact on various industries and its potential to drive significant economic growth.
  5. Market Implications:
  6. Companies leveraging AI are showing increased revenues and cash flows.
  7. Major players like Meta and AWS are investing heavily in AI, indicating a broader trend within the tech sector.

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Key Takeaways

  • The collaboration between the Fed and Treasury indicates a shift toward lower interest rates and a focus on economic growth.
  • The current low inflation rates suggest a deflationary environment, contradicting traditional expectations of inflationary pressure.
  • Record tax refunds will likely stimulate consumer spending, contributing to GDP growth in a low-inflation context.
  • The surge in AI capabilities represents a critical opportunity for economic advancement, with implications across various sectors.

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Conclusion Anthony Pompliano encourages listeners to prepare their portfolios for an evolving economic landscape characterized by low interest rates, increased money supply, and significant consumer spending driven by tax refunds. The emphasis on AI and its potential for growth further underscores the importance of staying informed and adaptable in investment strategies.

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Monetary Policy Revolution

0:46 to 2:45

Discussion on Kevin Warsh and Scott Besant's plans to change monetary policy.

“He wants to create an accord between the Fed and the Treasury Department.”

Tax Refunds and Economic Impact

2:46 to 4:19

Analysis of how record tax refunds will stimulate consumer spending and GDP growth.

“They're going to cut rates and they're going to print money.”

AI and Infrastructure Build-Out

4:20 to 8:08

Exploration of Jensen Huang's insights on AI driving a major infrastructure build-out.

“People are about to party like it's 1999 all over again.”
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0:00Hello, everyone. Inflation is crashing. The Fed nominee wants to strike a deal with the Treasury. Record tax refunds are starting to hit consumer pockets. And Jensen Huang says that we are going through a generational build-out of infrastructure. We are live today from the desk of Anthony Pompliano.

0:24Before we get into today's episode, I need your help. My goal is to get to 1 million subscribers on YouTube. Right now, we have 43 ,516 of you there. Hit the subscribe button and let's get into today's episode. All right, ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Warsh and Scott Besant, they are cooking up a new plan and they want to revolutionize monetary policy. Now, Warsh, he is the next Fed chairman nominee. He wants to create an accord between the Fed and the Treasury Department. They want to lock hands and say, let's be boys forever. Besant, who runs the Treasury, he's fully on board with this plan. Now, you got to remember, these two guys have both worked very closely with Stanley Druckenmiller for years.

1:02They have very similar views on global macro environment and monetary policy. Some may call it the Druck worldview. Now, the legacy finance folks, they may not like this plan so much. You know, there's a lot of change going on here, but I would not bet against Kevin Worsh and Scott Bestin from pulling this off. A big part of the plan is to get interest rates significantly lower. And for good reason, frankly, in my opinion, Truflation, the real-time alternative metric is showing inflation at 0.68 % right now. That is nearly 75 % lower than the Fed's target of 2%. 0.68 % inflation is ice cold. Alberto Bernal had a great point when he said the following, if trueflation is even remotely close to accurately describing what consumer prices are doing at this time, then the official US headline CPI print should collapse from 2.7 % to 1.5 % in the next three to four months.

1:55And since employment growth is now stagnant at best, the Federal Reserve will be forced to cut rates much more than the market currently expects. In other words, his view is that the analyst consensus is wrong and that the Fed will be forced to deliver at least 75 to 100 basis point cuts in 2026. So the market is saying to cut rates. Truflation is saying to cut rates. The president is saying to cut rates. And now the Fed chairman and the treasury secretary are saying to cut rates. What do you think is going to happen? Do you think that they're all just gaslighting us? Do they get in some room and they're all conspiring to like trick us or something?

2:31Or do you think that they are actually going to just cut rates and run the economy hot, hot, hot? I'll take that option for a thousand, Alex. Rate cuts are coming. Just make sure that you have Bitcoin, gold, and other hard assets because they're going to run this economy hot. They're going to cut rates and they're going to print money. And the big risk right now is deflation, not inflation. So make sure your portfolio is protected. Record tax refunds are on the way to your pocket and all your neighbors. That's at least according to Mike Zaccardi. Now, the average income tax refund is estimated to be over$4 ,000.

3:08That's right, 4 ,000 big ones. And consumers are going to start getting it soon here in 2026. Now, the reason why this is important is because historically, when tax refund season happens, people take that money and what do they do. They go and they spend it in the economy. And if you're spending in the economy, GDP should start to trickle up further and further. But we already have an economy that's growing incredibly quick, 5 plus percent GDP growth. And so all of a sudden, we nearly double the amount that people are going to get from their income tax refunds for$1 ,000. They're going to be out splurging like they're going to Vegas for the first time or something.

3:44Seeing the American consumer with real money in their pocket and able to spend it means that GDP is likely to get even more of a tailwind. We're living in a high growth, low inflation economy. And so handing$4 ,000 to thousands and thousands and thousands, if not tens of millions of Americans, likely means that we're going to see GDP continue going up and we're going to continue to see inflation stay right where it is. The deflationary force is too big. It doesn't matter how much money's printed, how low interest rates go or how much these income tax refunds are. No one's going to be able to stop this deflationary force.

4:18And so get ready, folks. People are about to party like it's 1999 all over again. They're getting on estimated$4 ,000 per person. It's about to be a lot of spending in the U.S. economy. The big question in the stock market right now is can these companies tied to artificial intelligence keep it up? They're the ones that are driving most of the stock market return. They're the ones that people believe are driving GDP growth. Jensen Huang, who's widely considered the godfather of artificial intelligence, he was recently on CNBC, and he just plainly stated, we're in a once in a generation infrastructure build out.

4:52Take a listen. We're in the once in a generation infrastructure build out. This is the largest infrastructure build out in human history. And there's a fundamental reason for that. Artificial intelligence is going to fundamentally change how we compute everything, everything from database processing, the way we do search, the way we do recommender systems, the way you shop, the way you watch movies, and of course these new agentic systems that are being developed and evolved. Last year, this last year, we saw an inflection point in AI. AI became super useful. No longer hallucinating, it's generating informed content, it's reasoning, it's thinking, it's doing research, it's able to use tools.

5:34All of a sudden AI over the last couple of years went from being curious to super useful. The inflection point also came with it, profitable tokens. Anthropic is making great money. OpenAI is making great money. If they could have twice as much compute, the revenues would go up four times as much. I mean, literally, these guys are so compute constrained, and the demand is so incredibly great. The number of enterprise users, the number of consumer users, the number of startups are being built on top of these companies, It's just going through the roof. So when you see numbers that are, frankly, remarkable, that$660 billion this year will be spent by the hyperscalers, as we continue to learn like we did from Amazon last night, you sit back and think to yourself, that's completely justified based on what you see.

6:25It is appropriate and sustainable. And the reason for that is because all of these companies' cash flows are going to start rising. You know, people are comparing it to cash flows. one of those numbers are wrong. It's just the cash flow is wrong. We are addressing the largest software opportunity in history. For the very first time, software is not just a tool. A tool is like Excel. Now software uses tools. So these AIs use Excel. And so I think the opportunity for this new era of software is incredible. And we're seeing it already moving the earnings of meta. Nobody uses AI better than meta. And so if you look at the way that they're using AI, AI went from a classical recommender system running on CPUs to now a generative AI agentic system that is making recommendations.

7:19Everything from the way the social media works and the way they recommend ads and help advertisers create content has fundamentally been changed. And their earnings show it. And that's the reason why they're investing so hard. They see just a much larger future potential for it. And that's just one company. This is going to affect AWS's shopping and the way they recommend goods. This is going to affect how Microsoft's enterprise software works. Every single company sees the same inflection point. And that's why everybody leaning in so hard. Now, I don't know about you. AI seems pretty cool. We build a lot of products with it.

7:52We use it internally. We see growth coming from these things, saving us money and making us more productive. But you don't have to take my word for it. Jensen Huang, the guy built a$4 trillion company. I think he knows what he's talking about. And so to hear him say we are in a once in a generation infrastructure build out, and this is the largest infrastructure build out in human history. Sign me up for that, baby. Inject that into my veins. AI means that we're going higher. That's it for today's show. Thank you guys so much for watching. Please remember to subscribe on YouTube, and I'll see you all live from the desk of Anthony Pompliano tomorrow.

From the publisher

For the first time under Trump, the Fed and the Treasury are moving in the same direction. Incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh looks set to follow the playbook already laid out by Scott Bessent: low interest rates and an economy run red hot. The question now isn’t if this regime is coming, but whether your portfolio is prepared for it? In today’s episode, I break down what this shift means  and what you should own heading into this new era.


0:00 Intro

0:36 Scott Bessent and Kevin Warsh are signaling their moves

2:56 Record tax refunds will hit the economy soon

4:32 Once-in-a-generation opportunity says Jenson Huang 


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