Bearish or Bullish? What Oil, DeFi Hacks and Cash Hoarding Tell Us About Markets
It’s hard to look at recent news from both crypto and traditional markets and not feel like we’re getting pretty mixed signals. Stocks have been recovering, but oil is hitting historic lows. DeFi suff...
20 Apr 202022min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | April 18 2020
The entire week's shows in one convenient episode Monday | Off Tuesday | The $20,000 Human IPO & 5 Other Stories That Have Nothing to Do With COVID-19 Wednesday | What the Economy Will Look Like ...
18 Apr 20202h 15min
Why Money Is Losing Its Meaning, feat. Jared Dillian
Bitcoiners are particularly sensitive to Fed intervention in markets, but the degree to which the Fed is willing to print to backstop basically all risk is drawing the attention of even normal market ...
17 Apr 202041min
Libra vs. China's DCEP? The Battle for the Future of Money Heats Up
This week saw the latest salvos in the battle for the future of money. Libra announced that it would be moving away from a single currency that was backed by a basket of national currency to a model...
16 Apr 202018min
What the Economy Will Look Like 6 Months From Now, Feat. Ryan Selkis
As week (one million, it seems) of the COVID-19 lockdown plods on, many are wondering what the economy will look like on the other side. Ryan Selkis is the CEO and founder of Messari. He was one of t...
15 Apr 202049min
The $20,000 Human IPO & 5 Other Stories That Have Nothing to Do With COVID-19
Even as the market tries to make sense of everything happen (or ignores it, depending on your perspective), crypto keeps on plugging along. Today on The Breakdown @NLW looks at 5 recent crypto stori...
14 Apr 202021min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | April 11 2020
The full week's episodes in one convenient file: Monday | How Covid-19's Second Order Effects Could Make Humanity Stronger, feat. Emerson Spartz Tuesday | Exit Plans, Premature Rallies and Frontlin...
11 Apr 20203h 53min
Quantitative Tightening and 5 Key Questions for Our Changing World
As we wrap up another crazy week - 6.6m more jobless claims, $2.3T more in stimulus - this episode offers a few key themes and questions for bitcoiners and the crypto-minded to think about over the lo...
10 Apr 202016min
