‘It Sure Doesn’t Feel Like the Greatest Economy of All Time,’ Feat. George Gammon
What would you do if you were approaching your 40s, burned out and realizing the type of financial success you had been pursuing wasn’t actually serving your true goal of freedom? If you were George...
1 Jul 20201h 5min
How the Fed Fans the Flame - The Best of The Breakdown June 2020
June 2020 will go down in the history books as an extremely chaotic and confusing period. In this “Best of the Month” retrospective, we look at some of the best guest conversations from The Breakdow...
30 Jun 202029min
A Primer on the Eurodollar and Shadowbanking System [Long Reads Sunday]
The latest Long Read is "Crypto Dollars and the Evolution of Eurodollar Banking" by Avi Felman and Max Bronstein. This piece covers: The Dollar Milkshake Theory Why the demand for the US dollar r...
28 Jun 202024min
Welcome to the Groundhog Day Economy (PS, It Sucks) - The Breakdown Weekly Recap
As states shutter economic activity because of preventable COVID-19 outbreaks, it’s deja vu all over again. This is a movie we’ve seen before: Rise in what could have been preventable COVID-19 cas...
27 Jun 202010min
How Monopolies Sow the Seeds of Their Own Destruction, Feat. Tuur Demeester
Today on the Brief: A consumer spending rebound A new crypto regulatory regime in Europe A bitcoin warning from a famed investor Our main discussion: Tuur Demeester is the managing partner of ...
27 Jun 20201h 10min
Is Scam Selling Suppressing the Price of Bitcoin?
Today’s edition of The Breakdown is an extended version of the Brief, this time covering five topics. New Jobless claims - sticking stubbornly at ~1.5 million new claims per week, despite economist ...
26 Jun 202017min
Bull vs. Bear: Who Has the Economy Right?
The economy is nothing if not confounding right now. Across every domain, from real estate to oil to retail, there are bull signals and bear signals. In this episode, NLW looks at those signals in...
25 Jun 202023min
Oil 101: How Easy Money Enabled the Shale Revolution, Feat. Tracy Shuchart
Today on the Brief: PayPal and Venmo reportedly adding crypto buying and selling Trump executive order temporarily suspends H1-B visa program Continued growth in bitcoin derivatives Our main con...
24 Jun 20201h 16min
