What Janet Yellen as Treasury Secretary Means for Bitcoin and Markets
On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at what was an absolutely action-packed holiday week. He discusses: Bitcoin’s price action The Dow’s 30,000 psychological milestone Et...
28 Nov 20209min
ENCORE: Luke Gromen on the History and (Declining) Future of the Global Dollar System
One of the most significant macroeconomic questions facing the world is what the future of the global reserve system, dominated for the last 80 years by the U.S. dollar, holds. Today’s episode is a ...
27 Nov 20201h 14min
Schmuck Insurance: Chamath Palihapitiya's Prescient 2013 Argument for Bitcoin
When NLW asked Crypto Twitter for recommendations of the best way to convince friends and family about bitcoin and crypto, one of the ideas was to review old articles that have stood the test of time....
26 Nov 202010min
The Most Bullish Bitcoin Arguments for Your Thanksgiving Table
Today’s Breakdown is a prep kit for the inevitable conversations about bitcoin as friends and family sit down at the Thanksgiving table this year. NLW discusses arguments ranging from price action t...
26 Nov 202016min
Lyn Alden on Money Printing, Bitcoin and the End of an 80-Year Debt Cycle
Today’s guest is Lyn Alden. Lyn is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy and one of today’s best-known and most-respected macro analysts. In this conversation, she and NLW discuss: Anti-defla...
25 Nov 20201h 3min
A Bitcoin Shortage? PayPal and Cash App Buying More Than 100% of New Supply
Today on the Brief: AstraZeneca and University of Oxford release third positive COVID-19 vaccine trial data Trump administration ratchets up pressure on China Another DCEP lottery trial coming O...
24 Nov 202013min
Bitcoin ETF Time? What SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Stepping Down Means for Markets
On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads Joe Nocera’s recent Op-Ed “Clayton’s Exit at SEC Opens Door to Protect Investors” from Bloomberg. NLW expands upon the piece, discussing Clayton’s legacy ...
22 Nov 202012min
What Do Mexico's Second Wealthiest Billionaire and Arya Stark Have In Common?
On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW discusses: Traditional markets: The tension between vaccine optimism and a growing national wave of economy-disrupting lockdowns Regulatory landsc...
21 Nov 202010min
