Everything You Need To Know About The US & China: The Biggest Realignment Since Nixon, Feat. Graham Webster
The U.S.-China relationship has an outsized impact on global economics and politics. As that relationship comes even more into focus in the wake of COVID-19 and a return of trade tensions, this episod...
6 Jun 20201h 27min
The Mirage of the Money Printer: Why the Fed Is More PR Than Policy, Feat. Jeffrey P. Snider
The conventional wisdom is that central banks are the most important economic actors in the world. Markets hang on their every word. Yet, what if that power has less to do with actual monetary polic...
5 Jun 20201h 4min
5 Numbers That Tell the Story of Markets Right Now
Every day that protests continue and the stock market goes up, more people ask what the disconnect between markets and the real economy is. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW peels back the story o...
4 Jun 202014min
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
