Arthur Breitman on the Biggest Problems in Blockchain Design
We continue to see an explosion of interest and money flowing into the crypto/blockchain space. But recent price declines and the Terra disaster have raised new questions about what the whole point is...
20 Maj 202257min
Stephanie Kelton On MMT and the Inflation We're Seeing Today
For years, economists of the MMT school have been arguing that the way we think about deficits and government spending is all wrong. Whereas many people warn about the unsustainability of the national...
19 Maj 202249min
This Is How the Terra Stablecoin Actually Imploded
The collapse of the Terra ecosystem, and the tokens Luna and UST, will go down as one of the most painful and devastating chapters in crypto history. Over $60 billion market value has evaporated, and ...
15 Maj 20221h 9min
This Is What Happened to the GameStop Mania
The first true meme stock was GameStop, which went wild in early 2021, delivering brutal losses to short sellers, and a fortune to a handful of independent retail investors who participated in the squ...
12 Maj 202245min
Here's What Just Happened to the Stock Market and the Economy
It's really been an extraordinary year for markets and the economy. Stocks are down, particularly, growth stocks which have gotten clobbered. Treasuries are down. Inflation is hotter than it's been in...
9 Maj 202250min
This Is What's Next for the Future of Air Travel
The aviation industry has never seen a disruption like what it's experienced over the last two years with the pandemic. Air travel ground to a virtual halt initially, but has slowly been climbing out ...
5 Maj 202259min
Javier Blas Explains How Commodity Trading Shops Really Work
One of the big themes these days is the return of the 'real' economy. You can't solve problems these days with just money. Not everything can be done by sitting behind a screen. And so some of the mos...
2 Maj 202255min
This Is How a Locked-Down Shanghai Apartment Gets Food
Shanghai, a city of nearly 30 million people, is currently under a hard lockdown, as the Chinese government sticks to its Covid Zero strategy of limiting the virus at all costs. There have been some s...
29 Apr 202241min
