Why Innovation Matters (and How Not to Screw It Up), Feat. Matt Ridley
Twenty-one different people can reasonably claim to have invented the light bulb, but Thomas Edison is the one we know about. Was it just good PR? According to Matt Ridley, it was because Edison was t...
28 Touko 202047min
Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis
The battle to control narratives is the battle to shape how people understand the world around them. But the traditional gatekeepers of narratives - the media - have never had more competition to shap...
27 Touko 202054min
Dollar Dilemmas & Central Banks Gone Wild: The Best Of The Breakdown April/May 2020
Highlights from some of the most interesting conversations on The Breakdown from the last two months. 4/1 - Peter Zeihan on why the world we’ve known for 30 years is changing forever 4/6 - Emers...
25 Touko 202032min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 23 2020
The complete week's shows in one convenient episode Monday | Economic Freedom in the World After Capital, feat. Albert Wenger Tuesday | Lessons from the Financial History of Pandemics, feat. Jamie ...
23 Touko 20203h 58min
In The Shadow of Satoshi's Ghost: Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters
On Wednesday, a batch of coins mined just a month after bitcoin’s birth were moved. It was the first time since August 2017 that any bitcoin from early 2009 had been transferred, and the action set Bi...
23 Touko 202030min
‘Dismantle the Euro to Save Europe’ Feat. Tuomas Malinen
The European Union and the euro are part of the most ambitious political and economic experiment of the 21st century. The COVID-19 crisis, however, has exacerbated growing questions of political will ...
22 Touko 202045min
Why a Strong Dollar Is Bad for the US and Bad for the World, feat. Lyn Alden
The dollar has a unique role in the world due to its reserve currency status. For many years that status has created incredible opportunities for the U.S. Increasingly, however, some are wondering if ...
21 Touko 202059min
Lessons from the Financial History of Pandemics, feat. Jamie Catherwood
Jamie Catherwood works at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative long-equity investment firm. More importantly, however, he is the finance history guy on Twitter. His “Financial History: Sunda...
20 Touko 202035min
