The Bond Market Is the Truth Teller No One Listens To, Feat. George Goncalves
Today on the Brief: More bad news from jobless claims and the GDP The big tech hearing was a whole bunch of nothing; watch TikTok instead Robinhood dives into Kodak (but so do illegal insider trad...
31 Heinä 202055min
How DeFi Could Disrupt Traditional Finance, Feat. Sergey Nazarov
Today on the Brief: Big tech goes to Washington The debate on the next COVID-19 relief act heats up More on institutional investors’ move into gold “Imagine a world without counterparty risk.” ...
30 Heinä 20201h 22min
How Real Is Bitcoin’s Rally? 8 Interpretations of the $11k Surge
It was a beautiful Monday. Bitcoin crashed through $10,000 and got all the way up to a new yearly high of about $11,000 before retracing slightly. As with any dramatic price action, people were qu...
29 Heinä 202024min
SPACs 101: A Bubble, the Future or Both?
Special purpose acquisition companies have been around since the 1990s, but have seen a significant uptick in popularity in recent years. Companies like Virgin Galactic, Draft Kings and Nikola have ch...
28 Heinä 202027min
The Economic Conflict That Will Shape The Next Century
This week on Long Reads Sunday, our selection is “Whose Century?” by Adam Tooze in the London Review of Books. Nominally a review of four recent scholarly works on the conflict between the US and C...
26 Heinä 202024min
As Economic Indicators Get Worse, the US Revs Up the Next Multi-Trillion Stimulus
This week on the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW covers: A terrible week for US-China tensions, with dueling Consulate closures and an incredibly hawkish speech from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo W...
25 Heinä 202014min
Could the European Recovery Plan Actually Break Europe Apart? Feat. Tuomas Malinen
Today on the Brief: Which industries are recovering the best China retaliates against U.S. after consulate shutdown Dollar heads toward its worst month since 2018 Our main discussion features r...
25 Heinä 202032min
Will Big Tech Enable or Destroy Small Business? Feat. Sahil Bloom
Today on the Brief: Disappointing jobless claim numbers with first increase in 4 months US banks now allows to custody crypto Senate hears arguments for a digital dollar in the context of US-China...
24 Heinä 202051min
