5 Numbers That Tell the Story of Markets Right Now
Every day that protests continue and the stock market goes up, more people ask what the disconnect between markets and the real economy is. In this episode of The Breakdown, NLW peels back the story o...
4 Juni 202014min
Bitcoin, Cellphones and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
Alex Gladstein is the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation. He is a powerful voice for the role of bitcoin in combating authoritarianism around the globe. In today's episode, he and...
3 Juni 202045min
The Power and Peril of the 'Bitcoin Fixes This' Meme
Cities around the country have been engulfed in protest in the wake of the murder of 46-year-old black man George Floyd. There is an intense battle for the narrative around the protests. Are they legi...
2 Juni 202025min
The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 30 2020
The week's episodes in one convenient file. Monday | Best of April/May (not included in Weekly Recap) Tuesday | Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis Wednesday | Why...
30 Maj 20203h 58min
The Battle for the Future of Money, feat. Lawrence Summers, CZ, Michelle Phan, the Winklevoss brothers, The Chainsmokers and more. [Money Reimagined Episode 4]
As the economic dimension of the COVID-19 crisis comes into clearer view, what have we learned about the battle for the future of money? Does the dollar reign supreme? Are within-the-system competitor...
30 Maj 202048min
The Geopolitical Implications of a Too-Strong Dollar, Feat. Brent Johnson
You know the meme: Money printer go brrr. It means inflation right? Not necessarily, says Brent Johnson. Since 2016-2017, Johnson has been arguing the big economic issue of our time isn’t inflation ...
29 Maj 20201h 4min
Why Innovation Matters (and How Not to Screw It Up), Feat. Matt Ridley
Twenty-one different people can reasonably claim to have invented the light bulb, but Thomas Edison is the one we know about. Was it just good PR? According to Matt Ridley, it was because Edison was t...
28 Maj 202047min
Deglobalization and Other Narrative Violations, Feat. Geoff Lewis
The battle to control narratives is the battle to shape how people understand the world around them. But the traditional gatekeepers of narratives - the media - have never had more competition to shap...
27 Maj 202054min
