On this edition of the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW looks at:

• The “holding pattern economy” – why stocks, jobs and central bank policy seem stuck in place
• Why Joe Biden’s China plan shows that, no matter who wins the presidential election, U.S. economic policy towards China is likely to get more aggressive
• The surveillance state gets stronger as Amazon appoints a former NSA head to its board of directors
• The SUSHI saga and why there’s no capitalism more savage than the competition in open source networks