When Currencies Fail: A Primer on the Crisis in Lebanon
The Lebanese pound has lost at least 50% of its value since last year. 220,000 people have lost their jobs. Food prices are up 58%. An estimated 75% of the population needs assistance of some kind. An...
30 Apr 202022min
The Mass Surveillance Machine, Feat. Maya Zehavi
As the COVID-19 crisis rages, it takes on new economic and political dimensions. The frames for many of the most important questions for the next decade are being set now, in this moment. On this ep...
29 Apr 202045min
Bitcoin vs. QE Infinity: The 4 Archetypes Of The Halving Debate
The bitcoin halving is just two weeks away. While the COVID-19 crisis pushed attention off the momentous event for a while, the discussion is coming back fast and strong. Google searches for the bitco...
27 Apr 202017min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | April 25
The full week's content in a single convenient long-run episode. Monday | Bearish or Bullish? What Oil, DeFi Hacks and Cash Hoarding Tell Us About Markets Tuesday | From Proof of Health to UBI: How...
25 Apr 20203h 57min
Why Bitcoin Is Freedom Money, Feat. Yan Pritzker
Yan Pritzker is the CTO and cofounder of Swan Bitcoin, an automated bitcoin only investing app aiming to be the best onramp to bitcoin. He is also the author of Inventing Bitcoin. On this episode, h...
24 Apr 202052min
We Don’t Need Big Brother To Beat This Virus
One of the key aspects of most plans to reopen the economy is digital contact tracing. This would be an apparatus whereby mobile phones kept track of the other mobile phones they had been physically p...
23 Apr 202019min
The History of the Dollar System From Bretton Woods to QE Infinity, Feat. Luke Gromen
QE infinity. Corporate bailouts. Nudging UBI. The incredible economic phenomena going on now didn’t happen out of the blue. They are the byproducts of a key events spread across the 70 year history of...
22 Apr 20201h 16min
From Proof of Health to UBI: How Everything Changes Post COVID-19, Feat. Joe McCann
Joe McCann currently works in cloud and AI at Microsoft and has spent decades in tech, crypto, and open source communities. He recently wrote a piece called “A New, New World Order” all about the sec...
21 Apr 20201h 2min
