# A Risk Management Cut

URL: /show/this-week-in-bitcoin/75/
> The Fed was forced to slash rates, and the jobs revision is nothing more than a smokescreen for the mess they’re really in.

- Show: [This Week In Bitcoin](/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/)
- Episode: 75
- Date: 2025-09-17
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:48:15
- Audio: https://feeds.fountain.fm/40huHEEF6JMPGYctMuUI/items/yzxePZb9BfJUiP7Nb1q1/files/AUDIO---DEFAULT---31f4ed1d-f0f6-4695-8d53-61e6f3a42075.mp3


Transcripts: [application/x-subrip](https://feeds.fountain.fm/40huHEEF6JMPGYctMuUI/items/yzxePZb9BfJUiP7Nb1q1/files/AUDIO---TRANSCRIPT---DEFAULT---SRT.srt)




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**Show Notes**

* [Saifedean Ammous on X: "It's fiat bingo day again!](https://x.com/saifedean/status/1968313897204711559)
* [Bank of Canada lowers interest rate to 2.5% in first cut since March](https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-interest-rate-announcement-sep-17-1.7635891)
* [Someone bought $680 MILLION Bitcoin ahead of today's rate cut decision.](https://x.com/BTC_Archive/status/1968290501494247934)
* [Federal Reserve Board - Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement](https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20250917a.htm)
* [Fed Cuts Rates by Quarter Point and Signals More Are Likely - WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/fed-cuts-rates-by-quarter-point-and-signals-more-are-likely-dba38600)
* [BRICS Nations Hold the Leverage (and Gold) and Why Bitcoin Price Isn’t Higher with Luke Gromen - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZNS1zjBthU)
* [Bitcoin Hashrate Surges Past 1 Zetahash, Marking Security Milestone](https://bitbo.io/news/bitcoin-hashrate-zetahash-milestone/)

**Music**

* [This That by Ollie](https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7484223)