Tuur Demeester
Founder of Adamant Capital, a Bitcoin Alpha fund.<br><br>I have an 'out of the box' approach, combining academic rigor, a focus on historical patterns, productive investment paranoia, and a knack for exploring new territories and opportunities. <br><br>I've been publicly commenting on macro economic trends since 2008, my investment newsletter MacroTrends was launched in 2011 and ran until November 2013, when I passed it to a successor. I recommended Bitcoin as an investment to my readers at $5 in 2012 and am an early Kraken investor. I've been a regular speaker at Bitcoin conferences and consult for various startups and funds. <br><br>In 2006, I co-founded the Belgian Rothbard Institute, an academic, research-oriented think tank. <br><br>I was also co-founder of and staff member at the independent Sudbury school 'De Kampanje, School voor Persoonlijk Ondernemerschap'.<br><br>In 2011, my paper "The Business Cycle: A Definition" was published in the Spanish academic paper 'Procesos de Mercado' (see attachment below). I worked on this paper for many months, and I stand by it as my proof and illustration that the science of economics is meaningless without a fundamental connection to morality and natural law. <br><br>As a freelance translator, I translated the following two books: <br>- Murray Rothbard, 'Wat Heeft de Overheid met Ons Geld Gedaan?' (2006, Murray Rothbard Instituut)<br>- Jesus Huerta de Soto, 'Geld, Krediet, en Crisis' (2011, Acco)
Recommended Books
- Aristotle's Children
- Compulsory Mis-Education, and the Community of Scholars
- The Trauma of Everyday Life
- The Columbian Exchange by Alfred Crosby
- Surfing Uncertainty by Andy Clark
- Metaphysics by Aristotle
- American Nations by Colin Woodard
- Learning from Our Mistakes by Henry Perkinson
- Blind to Betrayal by Jennifer Freyd
- Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesus Huerta De Soto
- Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets by John Murphy
- Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales
- Architecture of Community by Leon Krier
- How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett
- Bureaucracy by Ludwig Von Mises
- Human Action by Ludwig Von Mises
- The Dao of Capital by Mark Spitznagel
- Since 1845 by Mildred F Stone
- The First Philosophers by Robin Waterfield
- The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
- Water by Steven Solomon
- How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand
- Getting the Words Right by Theodore Cheney
- 1931 by Tobias Straumann
- Morals and Markets by Viviana A Rotman Zelizer