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Today on the Brief: A followup on Tesla, corporate earnings and PayPal’s crypto ambitions New COVID-19 shutdowns in California  Small businesses on the brink  Our main conversation: Bloomberg h...

15 Heinä 202023min

Today on the Brief: Wall Street quarterly earnings season opens Investor flock to higher-yielding Chinese government bonds Bitcoin whales go down but other types of HODLers go up Our main conver...

14 Heinä 202022min

On this episode of Long Reads Sunday, we look at Professor Stephen S. Roach’s piece “The Covid Shock To The Dollar.” In it, he argues: Americans have been squandering their savings potential  Bec...

12 Heinä 20209min

On The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW explores: The final tally on the TikTok Doge viral campaign  The growing geopolitical tension between China and the US and where it’s manifesting  Positive eco...

11 Heinä 202010min

Today on the Brief: Hong Kong re-closes schools based on COVID-19 growth Coinbase explores direct U.S. exchange listing China starts selling stock, easing massive rally  Our main conversation is...

11 Heinä 20201h 17min

Today on the Brief: Slight good news in new and continuing jobless claims  Record corporate equity and debt sales during the crisis USDC freezes $100k Our main conversation: Introducing the Macr...

10 Heinä 202025min

What’s old is new again! What happens when you combine a mostly hibernating memecoin with the world’s most powerful (and controversial) meme platform, and throw in a new generation of daytraders that...

9 Heinä 202022min

Today on the Brief: Social media apps get caught in geopolitical tensions  Pitchforks around the Paycheck Protection Program  Brazil blocks Binance Our main discussion is with Daniel Lacalle. Da...

8 Heinä 20201h 5min