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August 30, 2020 BREAKDOWN: The Case for $500,000 Bitcoin
The Winklevoss brothers make an argument that, in the long run, bitcoin is the only good safe haven.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
This week’s episode of Long Reads Sunday is a reading of the latest essay from Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss.
The essay looks systematically at the problems of the slate of current store-of-value assets, including the U.S. dollar, oil and gold.
The brothers argue why those assets have, or are starting to have, value in their safe haven function, while bitcoin is on the rise.
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26 min
August 29, 2020 BREAKDOWN: The End of an Era? Why Bitcoin and MMT Won the Week
Fed Chair Jerome Powell tried to make it seem like the end of an era, but didn’t inspire confidence in the central bank’s ability to lead in the era that comes next.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
On The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the shifting sands of the global economy. He says Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole this week was an argument that an era that began in the 1970s is now closing.
At the same time, he argues Powell did very little to provide a vision for what comes next. Instead, it is the alternative economic philosophies – Modern Monetary Theory on the one side, Bitcoin on the other – that are attracting people for a different vision of the future.
This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? Feat. Adam Tooze
Tuesday | An Unintended Consequence of Low Interest Rates? The Big Get Bigger
Wednesday | The Battle to Get Dictator’s Seized Millions to 62,000 Venezuelan Health Heroes
Thursday | Everything You Need to Know About Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole Speech
Friday | The Anxiety Index: 4 Fear Factors Shaping the Economy

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11 min
August 28, 2020BREAKDOWN: The Anxiety Index... 4 Fear Factors Shaping the Economy
From COVID-19 relapses to election insecurity, these factors drive defensiveness up and demand down.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today on the Brief:
Skepticism around Powell’s inflation prognostications
The Tesla Stock Split Game
China’s COVID-19 vaccine maker presses countries for early adoption
Our main discussion: The Anxiety Index
We live in an economy organized around consumption and perpetual growth. In that context, factors that cause consumers to be fearful, reduce spending, increase savings, move less and generally slow down can wreak havoc.
In this episode, NLW discusses four factors shaping and driving consumer anxiety, including:
COVID-19 related concerns, both health and economic
Monetary policy questions
U.S.-China tensions
Election insecurity
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18 min
August 27, 2020 BREAKDOWN: Everything You Need to Know About Jerome Powell's Jackson Hole Speech
The Federal Reserve Chair announced a slate of new policy approaches, but are they inspired or impotent?
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell spoke Thursday at the annual Jackson Hole conference convened by the Kansas City Fed, which was virtual this year due to COVID-19.
In the highly anticipated speech, Powell laid out a number of key changes to how the Fed approaches unemployment and inflation.
In this recap, NLW looks at how people reacted to the speech. On the one hand, there is disagreement between those who anticipate out of control inflation and those who think the Fed’s track record on achieving even modest inflation is abysmal. On the other, almost everyone seems to think the Fed appears run down, out of tools and increasingly looking to support from Congress.
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21 min
August 26, 2020BREAKDOWN: The Battle to Get Dictator’s Seized Millions to 62,000 Venezuelan Health Heroes
How crypto-powered Airtm is teaming with Venezuela’s opposition government to distribute $18 million in funds the U.S. seized from the Maduro dictatorship, featuring Airtm CEO Ruben Galindo.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today on the Brief
The SEC changes accredited investor rules
Fintech and crypto investor Ribbit Capital starts $350 million SPAC
Previewing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s Jackson Hole speech
Our main conversation is with Ruben Galindo, CEO and co-founder of Airtm.
Airtm is a global dollar account that lets users anywhere access U.S. dollars, powered by cryptocurrency infrastructure and a P2P network.
The company is currently working with Juan Guaido’s opposition government in Venezeula to attempt to distribute $18 million in funds the U.S. seized from the Maduro dictatorship.
In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:
How Airtm works outside of the traditional banking system
Why people around the world are hungry for access to dollars
What the Health Heroes campaign is trying to achieve
How Guaido and Airtm are trying to work around the Maduro government’s attempt to suppress them

Find our guest online:
Website: airtm.com
Twitter: @theairtm
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39 min
August 25, 2020BREAKDOWN: An Unintended Consequence of Low Interest Rates? The Big Get Bigger
As companies have to shift their business model to contend with low interest rates, the largest find themselves in a comparatively better situation.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today’s episode of The Breakdown is an extended edition of the Brief.
NLW discusses:
The “COVID-19 vaccine trade” on Wall Street kicks markets higher
The latest on TikTok vs. the U.S. and what it means for the U.S.-China relationship
More companies move reserves from cash to bitcoin

The final topic today looks at news that some large money market funds are shifting fees from users and taking the financial hit themselves. This creates a dynamic where only the largest companies can survive long term, and reflects a key unintended consequence of low interest rates.
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18 min
August 24, 2020BREAKDOWN: How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? Feat. Adam Tooze
An economic historian and one of Foreign Policy’s “Top Global Thinkers of the Decade” discusses post-COVID-19 global economics and politics.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Our guest today is Adam Tooze. Adam holds the Shelby Cullom Davis Chair of History at Columbia University and serves as director of its European Institute. He is known for his books “The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order” and “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.”
In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:
Historical analogies for our present moment
Federal Reserve policy and independence
How much we should fear debt and inflation post-coronavirus
How the economic and political crisis of 2020 has changed or reinforced the trajectory of the U.S., China and Europe
Why there is no such thing as the post-American era

Find our guest online:
Website: Adamtooze.com
Twitter: @adam_tooze

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1 hr 1 min
August 23, 2020 BREAKDOWN: Why Are Traditional Investors So Hungry for Yield Curve Control?
When FOMC minutes suggested the Federal Reserve might not employ yield curve control, the markets reacted angrily.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
On today’s edition of The Breakdown’s Long Reads Sunday, our selections have to do with one of the hottest topics in central banking: yield curve control.
“What Is Yield Curve Control?”
The first piece is from the St. Louis Federal Reserve and is a primer on YCC, including past U.S. implementations as well as versions from Japan and Australia.
“Market Jitters Show How Much Fed Medicine Matters”
Our second piece is an op-ed about how dramatically markets reacted to this small detail from the Federal Open Market Committee minutes, and what it suggests for their desires involving YCC.
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19 min
August 22, 2020BREAKDOWN: People Aren’t Buying the ‘Great American Recovery’ Narrative
Despite the stock market returning to all-time highs, many can’t shake the feeling that all is not well in the economy.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Today on The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap:
People aren’t buying “the Great American Recovery”
Let’s stop considering the economy as one thing
Dave Portnoy doesn’t care about your principles
DeFi is the Wild West and saved only by the fact that no normie understands what the hell is going on
Bitcoin is being compared to the dollar not stocks and that’s serious progress

This week on The Breakdown:
Monday | What’s Actually Happening With Inflation Right Now
Tuesday | How Excess Capital and Low Interest Rates Reshaped Silicon Valley, Feat. Chris McCann
Wednesday | S&P5 vs. S&P 500: The Real Story of the Stock Market Recovery
Thursday | The Most Pro-Bitcoin Politicians in the US
Friday | Winter Is Coming: Examining the Economy’s Eight-Body Problem
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14 min
August 21, 2020BREAKDOWN: Winter Is Coming... Examining the Economy's Eight-Body Problem
From the devastation of the service industry to never-ending central bank intervention, these factors make predicting the future of the economy nearly impossible.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
The “three-body problem” is a physics issue that deals with unpredictable futures.
In a recent essay, John Mauldin argues the economy is actually experiencing an “eight-body problem.”
On today’s episode, NLW explores each of those dimensions shaping the challenge we face, including:
Central bank intervention
The destruction of the service industry
The implosion of global trade

In the end, he argues that in a world ruled by chaos, fighting to control the narrative might be the only rational move.
Read Ben Hunt’s essay “The Three-Body Problem.”
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25 min