Previewing the Economic Showdowns Coming This Fall
On this week’s edition of The Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW argues the big story of the week was actually a set of smaller stories that preview the faultlines and economic debates likely to absorb us in...
1 Aug 202010min
What a Professional Trader Thinks of the Fed, Robinhood and Real Estate, Feat. Tony Greer
Today on the Brief: The DXY hits a 52-week low Consumers seeking alternatives to cash Bank of England rebuilds settlement system to work with CBDCs Our main conversation is with trader and anal...
1 Aug 20201h 6min
The Bond Market Is the Truth Teller No One Listens To, Feat. George Goncalves
Today on the Brief: More bad news from jobless claims and the GDP The big tech hearing was a whole bunch of nothing; watch TikTok instead Robinhood dives into Kodak (but so do illegal insider trad...
31 Juli 202055min
How DeFi Could Disrupt Traditional Finance, Feat. Sergey Nazarov
Today on the Brief: Big tech goes to Washington The debate on the next COVID-19 relief act heats up More on institutional investors’ move into gold “Imagine a world without counterparty risk.” ...
30 Juli 20201h 22min
How Real Is Bitcoin’s Rally? 8 Interpretations of the $11k Surge
It was a beautiful Monday. Bitcoin crashed through $10,000 and got all the way up to a new yearly high of about $11,000 before retracing slightly. As with any dramatic price action, people were qu...
29 Juli 202024min
SPACs 101: A Bubble, the Future or Both?
Special purpose acquisition companies have been around since the 1990s, but have seen a significant uptick in popularity in recent years. Companies like Virgin Galactic, Draft Kings and Nikola have ch...
28 Juli 202027min
The Economic Conflict That Will Shape The Next Century
This week on Long Reads Sunday, our selection is “Whose Century?” by Adam Tooze in the London Review of Books. Nominally a review of four recent scholarly works on the conflict between the US and C...
26 Juli 202024min
As Economic Indicators Get Worse, the US Revs Up the Next Multi-Trillion Stimulus
This week on the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW covers: A terrible week for US-China tensions, with dueling Consulate closures and an incredibly hawkish speech from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo W...
25 Juli 202014min
