‘I Didn’t Buy It to Sell It. Ever.’ MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor on His $425 Million Bitcoin Bet
MicroStrategy made waves when it announced in early August it was moving $500,000,000 in treasury reserves out of cash. At least $250 million were to be moved into bitcoin. Earlier this week, the c...
19 Sep 20201h 20min
Raoul Pal: Monetary Policy Is Finished and Macro Debates Are Boring
Raoul Pal is CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, a platform fundamentally disrupting macroeconomics and financial media. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss: Hot takes on the mos...
18 Sep 202058min
Governments vs. Networks: The Battle for the Soul of Finance
Today on the Brief: Kraken is the first crypto exchange to become a U.S. bank FTC preparing antitrust lawsuit against Facebook Gold-standard fan Judy Shelton doesn’t have the votes to be confirmed...
17 Sep 202017min
The Decade of the Living Dead: How Zombie Companies Are Robbing Tomorrow’s Economy
Today on the Brief: MicroStrategy increases its bitcoin reserves by $175 million The Oracle-TikTok deal starts to smell fishy The SEC is investigating claims of fraud involving Nikola Corp. Our...
16 Sep 202020min
The Business of Geopolitical Competition
Today on the Brief: Crypto exchange volume sees highest month-over-month increase since February 2018 Uniswap overtakes SushiSwap in total value locked What Coinbase vs. Apple means for the future...
15 Sep 202021min
Is Being the ‘Saudi Arabia of Money’ Good for America?
On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW looks at recent statistics suggesting that, based on a comprehensive set of measures of well-being, U.S. citizens are worse off than they were a decade ago. One...
13 Sep 202013min
The Raw, Savage Capitalism of Open-Source Competition
On this edition of the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW looks at: The “holding pattern economy” – why stocks, jobs and central bank policy seem stuck in place Why Joe Biden’s China plan shows that, no m...
12 Sep 202012min
‘As Toppy as It Gets’: Metals, Bitcoin and Fiat’s Race to the Bottom, Feat. Tavi Costa
Tavi Costa is a portfolio manager at Crescat Capital. In this conversation with NLW, he discusses: The credit exhaustion moment in the engines of global growth The race to the bottom for fiat curre...
12 Sep 202045min
