Bitcoin, Cellphones and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
Alex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a powerful voice for the role of bitcoin in combating authoritarianism around the globe. In today's episode, he and...
3 Jun 202045min
The Power and Peril of the 'Bitcoin Fixes This' Meme
Cities around the country have been engulfed in protest in the wake of the murder of 46-year-old black man George Floyd. There is an intense battle for the narrative around the protests. Are they legi...
2 Jun 202025min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 30 2020
The week's episodes in one convenient file. Monday | Best of April/May (not included in Weekly Recap) Tuesday | Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis Wednesday | Why...
30 Mai 20203h 58min
The Battle for the Future of Money, feat. Lawrence Summers, CZ, Michelle Phan, the Winklevoss brothers, The Chainsmokers and more. [Money Reimagined Episode 4]
As the economic dimension of the COVID-19 crisis comes into clearer view, what have we learned about the battle for the future of money? Does the dollar reign supreme? Are within-the-system competitor...
30 Mai 202048min
The Geopolitical Implications of a Too-Strong Dollar, Feat. Brent Johnson
You know the meme: Money printer go brrr. It means inflation right? Not necessarily, says Brent Johnson. Since 2016-2017, Johnson has been arguing the big economic issue of our time isn’t inflation ...
29 Mai 20201h 4min
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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 202032min
