Cryptocurrency
Paul Tudor Jones Buys Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation
As reported on Bloomberg, “Macro investor Paul Tudor Jones is buying Bitcoin as a hedge against the inflation he sees coming from central bank money-printing, telling clients it reminds him of the role gold played in the 1970s. “’The best profit-maximizing strategy is to own the fastest horse,’ Jones, the founder and chief executive officer […]
As reported on Bloomberg, “Macro investor Paul Tudor Jones is buying Bitcoin as a hedge against the inflation he sees coming from central bank money-printing, telling clients it reminds him of the role gold played in the 1970s.
“’The best profit-maximizing strategy is to own the fastest horse,’ Jones, the founder and chief executive officer of Tudor Investment Corp., said in a market outlook note he entitled ‘The Great Monetary Inflation.’ ‘If I am forced to forecast, my bet is it will be Bitcoin.’
“Jones, who said his Tudor BVI fund may hold as much as a low single-digit percentage of its assets in Bitcoin futures, becomes one of the first big hedge fund managers to embrace what until now has largely been snubbed by the financial mainstream. He was motivated to take a hard look at Bitcoin after considering the implications of massive fiscal spending and bond-buying by central banks to combat the coronavirus pandemic, he said.
“By his calculation, $3.9 trillion of money, the equivalent of 6.6% of global economic output, has been printed since February…”