6 Principles for Reading Any Market Crash

Every market crash looks like chaos until you have a framework. This week handed us a perfect case study: gold, Bitcoin, and the AI stocks all fell together, and the one thing going up was the dollar, the very thing you hold gold and Bitcoin to escape.That looks like proof the hard-money trade failed. It's the opposite. In this episode I lay out six simple principles for reading any crash, using this week as the example, so the next time everything falls at once you'll know exactly what it's telling you.The big idea: a week like this is a verdict on the dollar, not on the assets. We cover what "the dollar went up" actually means (it comes down to interest rates), why the most liquid hedge falls hardest without being the most broken, what Strategy selling 32 of its 840,000 coins really says about leverage, and why a week where cash wins says nothing about who wins the decade.This is educational content only, not financial advice.