The Breakdown Weekly Recap | March 21 2020
The week's episode, in one convenient file. Also including short clips from CoinShares CEO Jean-Marie Mognetti and SwanBitcoin CEO Cory Klippsten. Monday | Can $700B in Quantitative Easing Calm The...
21 Mar 20203h 8min
State Power & Authoritarianism After Coronavirus featuring Peter McCormack
Peter McCormack is the host of What Bitcoin Did and the Defiance podcast. He recently returned from travel to a number of countries in South America including Venezuela and Colombia as well as the Tur...
20 Mar 20201h 11min
Is the COVID19 Fiscal & Monetary Response An Overreaction? Feat. Bruce Fenton
In his daily Coronavirus press briefing today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said “our main scramble now is ventilators.” The state anticipates that within 45 days, it could need 37,000 ventilators. ...
18 Mar 202040min
Gov't Stimulus Goes BIG and Why Bitcoin Is the Only Truly Free Market, Feat. Dan Tapiero
President Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced a significant slate of upcoming stimulus measures, including deferred taxes and direct payments to Americans (although those details rema...
17 Mar 202041min
Can $700B in Quantitative Easing Calm The Markets? Feat. CoinDesk’s Michael Casey and Noelle Acheson
Over the weekend, the Fed decided it couldn’t wait for Wednesday’s planned meeting to act, cutting interest rates to nearly 0%. It also announced $700 billion of direct capital injection through the p...
16 Mar 202024min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | March 14 2020
The entire week's shows in one convenient file: Monday | What the Market Crash Means for Bitcoin, Feat. Delphi's Kevin Kelly Tuesday | Crypto Fundraising and the Nothing-Is-Safe Haven Wednesday | ...
14 Mar 20203h 20min
What Happens When Currencies Fail? Featuring Preston Pysh
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced more than a trillion dollars in liquidity injections into the market. In the coming weeks, many observers expect trillions of more in stimulus in a variety of ...
13 Mar 20201h 7min
6 Good Reasons for Bitcoiners to Keep Calm and HODL On
The Coronavirus got really extra real today for markets. A two and a half week selloff was tipped to the next level by a major ratcheting up of action from the US government (which still seemed clearl...
12 Mar 202016min
