Talk Your Book: Teucrium's Sal Gilbertie on Commodities & Crypto

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Michael Batnick
December 29, 2025

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Today's Talk Your Book is sponsored by Teucrium:

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On today’s show, we discuss:

  • Crude oil at multi-year lows and the reasons behind it

  • What differentiates commodities with a positive expected return from those without

  • The soybean trade debacle and why the government subsidizes farmers

  • Historical returns of commodities and their role as a diversifier

  • The use case for XXRP, a 2X long daily XRP ETF

  • Teucrium's free model, Commodities 1

  • Teucrium's white-label service for launching and operating an ETF

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