‘We’re In A Financial Crisis’: Treasury Readies $1 Trillion Warchest | Danny Moses

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  August 24, 2026 at 20:32  |  41:39  |  The David Lin Report
Speakers
Danny Moses — Co-Host, The Best Business Show

Summary

Danny Moses argues that Treasury and Fed intervention in the bond market signals a financial crisis and amounts to yield curve control or stealth QE. He thinks the long end may be capped temporarily but warns that debt and deficit fundamentals make the interventions less effective. His clearest expressions are gold, silver, and Bitcoin as dollar-debasement trades, while he flags AI/semiconductor and CoreWeave risk and expects another U.S. government shutdown.

  • Treasury buyback and TGA war chest announcements are interpreted as crisis-era yield curve control and stealth QE.
  • Japan BOJ repo access and yen dynamics are discussed as pressures behind U.S. Treasury yields.
  • Danny says U.S. debt, deficits, and interest costs make the Treasury's tools less effective; 10-year yields could still touch 5%.
  • Gold, silver, and gold miners are called buy-the-dip trades; Bitcoin is described as the same short-dollar debasement expression.
  • The semiconductor and AI selloff is framed as a repricing of long-duration earnings risk, with CoreWeave singled out as fundamentally weak.
  • Danny expects another U.S. government shutdown by the December funding deadline and highlights the Kalshi C3 contract.
Ideas
Danny Moses Co-Host, The Best Business Show 18:44
Buy gold every dip on dollar debasement.
Danny argues that Treasury and Fed interventions—BOJ repo access, expanded bond buybacks, the $1 trillion TGA war chest, and possible future QE—are forms of yield curve control and dollar debasement. Rather than trying to time the S&P, he says the cleanest trade is to buy gold. He notes gold moved from around 4,000 to 4,700 after the BOJ intervention, and that real rates, central bank and sovereign buying, and loss of dollar reserve status support buying every dip. Silver and gold miners are also ways to express the same view.
Danny Moses Co-Host, The Best Business Show 19:13
Bitcoin is short-dollar debasement trade.
Danny says Bitcoin and crypto are another delayed expression of the same short-US-dollar or loss-of-faith-in-the-system trade as gold. He links the Bitcoin rally to the Treasury buyback and BOJ intervention, and frames both gold and Bitcoin as plays on dollar debasement rather than trying to time risk assets.
Danny Moses Co-Host, The Best Business Show 29:55
Semiconductors face AI risk repricing.
Danny explains the semiconductor selloff as a recalibration of AI spending between hyperscalers and chipmakers, with Nvidia likely to beat and guide up but still fade on elevated expectations. He says China competition is real, OpenAI does not make money, energy and power infrastructure math is uncertain, and the market is repricing risk and applying a higher discount rate to long-dated AI/semiconductor earnings, similar to the dot-com fiber buildout.
Danny Moses Co-Host, The Best Business Show 31:20
CoreWeave's fundamentals stay poor; avoid it.
Danny singles out CoreWeave as an AI infrastructure name he believes will never make money and has a poor balance sheet. He notes the stock round-tripped after its earnings beat, moving from the high 80s/low 90s to about 115-116 and then back below those levels, illustrating the AI financing and valuation risk.
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