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Q&A: Niall Ferguson on the COVID Pandemic, Inflation and Crypto

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On today's episode of The Blockchain.com Podcast our CEO, Peter Smith, and Head of Research, Garrick Hileman, host Niall Ferguson. Niall is currently a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and the author of 16 books, including a new book titled Doom.  

During their conversation, the three discussed a range of topics including,

  • What historical period may be most relevant to understanding if the current inflationary price pressures are transitory or something more troubling
  • What impact inflation could have on markets
  • The significance of El Salvador making Bitcoin legal tender and what's happening with crypto adoption throughout Latin America
  • The latest of China's crypto crackdown and why policymakers around the world are struggling to develop a grand strategy for regulating crypto
  • And why many macro economists keep getting crypto wrong 
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