What Ray Dalio Really Thinks of Bitcoin
Today’s “Long Reads Sunday” is a reading of Ray Dalio’s recent LinkedIn post, “What I Really Think of Bitcoin.” In his interpretation, NLW argues the post shows Dalio and Bridgewater are at the beginn...
31 Jan 202111min
GameStop, Robinhood and the Failure of Un-Free Markets
In this edition of the Breakdown’s weekly recap, NLW looks at: Robinhood’s ham-fisted explanations for why it shut down buying for GME and other stocks Why the root cause seems to have been insolve...
30 Jan 202115min
In Retrospect, It Was Inevitable: Elon Musk Pumps Bitcoin to Space
Last night, Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile to a single word: “bitcoin.” He also tweeted a cryptic message: “In Retrospect, It Was Inevitable.” The price of bitcoin sur...
30 Jan 202112min
WallStreetBets Is Occupy Wall Street With Teeth
This week, a collective of foul-mouthed internet memers took down some of Wall Street’s best-known hedge funds. In today’s episode, NLW looks at: The historical context of how the Great Financial Cr...
29 Jan 202127min
Bitcoin Doesn't Care About Your Politics: Why Bitcoin Has More Ideological Flexibility Than We Think
Falling down the proverbial bitcoin rabbit hole tends to lead people to ask deep questions about the nature of the economy and society. Today’s Breakdown guests are all professionally trained to ask t...
28 Jan 20211h 5min
‘The Four Wars We Could Fight With China,’ Feat. Kyle Bass
In this episode, NLW speaks with Kyle Bass. Kyle is the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, a hedge fund focused on global events. He is known for correctly predicting t...
27 Jan 202146min
The Bitcoin Whales Won’t Stop Buying
Today’s grab-bag episode looks at five different topics: Bitcoin whales kept accumulating during last week’s dip Jim Cramer advises Powerball winner to put 5% in bitcoin Previewing the first FOMC ...
26 Jan 202119min
The Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto
For this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads the document that started it all - the Bitcoin White Paper. Interestingly, this document was released under an MIT open-source license, available free to a...
24 Jan 202117min
