How Covid-19's Second Order Effects Could Make Humanity Stronger, feat. Emerson Spartz
Second order effects are things that happen as unexpected outcomes of something else happening. These effects can create surprising causal chains. Take this for example: A pandemic makes everyone ne...
6 Apr 202056min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | April 4 2020
The full week's episode, in one convenient file. Monday | Bitcoin, Stablecoins, DeFi and Privacy: How COVID-19 is Changing Key Crypto Narratives Tuesday | ‘If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Pay...
4 Apr 20202h 57min
Will DeFi Even Matter In A Post-Corona World? Feat. Matt Luongo
Matt Luongo got his start in bitcoin in 2013. In 2016, he watched a pivotal moment where the sound money, digital gold narrative subsumed the payments use case for bitcoin. While he agreed, ultimately...
3 Apr 202035min
5 Reasons For Cautious Optimism In Crypto
The economic outlook is grim. The jobless claims keep piling up and even the most intransigent states are shutting down business. There isn’t - yet - a realistic plan - for returning to any sort of ec...
2 Apr 202023min
How Coronavirus Is Accelerating the End of Globalism, Feat. Peter Zeihan
“Some countries just aren’t going to emerge from the Coronavirus.” Peter Zeihan is one of the world’s foremost geopolitical experts. In his new book “Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an U...
1 Apr 202050min
‘If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Paying Attention’ Feat. Nic Carter
In this wide-ranging discussion, Castle Island Ventures founding partner and Coin Metrics co-founder Nic Carter joins @NLW to discuss: Why corporations weren’t adequately prepared for any serious ec...
31 Mar 202042min
Bitcoin, Stablecoins, DeFi and Privacy: How COVID-19 is Changing Key Crypto Narratives
On January 28th, Bloomberg’s Joe Weisenthal tweeted “Notable overlap on here between the most alarmist people tweeting about the virus and those who are obsessed with the size of the Fed balance sheet...
30 Mar 202021min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | March 28 2020
The full week's episode, in one convenient file. Monday | Unlimited QE and Why Markets Can’t Price In COVID19 Tuesday | Cronyism, Zombie Companies and the True Cost of the Corona Crisis, Feat....
28 Mar 20203h 26min
