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The Breakdown

A daily analysis of macroeconomics, bitcoin, geopolitics and big picture power shifts, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore @nlw. The Breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDesk.
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The Breakdown
2020-12-15

JPMorgan Discusses $600B in Potential New Bitcoin Demand

Today on the Brief: First COVID-19 vaccines roll out in the U.S.  Are IPOs the new ICOs? U.S. Treas…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-14

How Much Debt Can a Country Handle?

This week’s edition of Long Reads Sunday is a reading of “How Much Debt Is Too Much?” by Raghuram Ra…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-13

The Bitcoin Banking Battle Heats Up

On this edition of the weekly recap, NLW looks at the brewing battle to be the bitcoin and crypto ba…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-12

Why a Massive 169-Year-Old Insurance Company Just Bought $100M in Bitcoin

Today on the Brief: FDA panel recommends Pfizer vaccine approval as initial jobless claims soar Ant…
 
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2020-12-11

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce on a Bitcoin ETF, Custody Rules and What's Next for the SEC

Hester Peirce is a commissioner at the Securities Exchange Commission, sworn in for her second term …
 
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2020-12-10

The Most Important Trends and People Shaping Crypto 2020, With Ryan Selkis

What were the most important trends? Who were the most important people? Was it the year of Bitcoin …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-09

MicroStrategy Is Raising Another $400M to Buy BTC

Today on the Brief: BBVA set to offer crypto trading and custody Wells Fargo discusses bitcoin in r…
 
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2020-12-08

China's Latest Digital Currency Trial Is Its Most Important Yet

Today on the Brief: COVID-19 vs. Stimulus  Small hedge funds outperform large brethren  Equities no…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-07

Niall Ferguson on Why Bitcoin and China Are Winning the Monetary Revolution

On today’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads Niall Ferguson’s latest Op-Ed for Bloomberg: “Bitcoin Is Win…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-06

$50K BTC in 2021? Bloomberg Analysts Join the 'Traditional Onslaught' Driving Bitcoin's Rally

On this edition of the weekly recap, NLW looks at the consolidating narrative of a bitcoin rally tha…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-05

A ‘Santa Claus Rally’ for the Stock Market?

Today on the Brief: Payrolls report underperforms expectations Spotify looking for crypto director …
 
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2020-12-04

Why Stablecoins Are the First Battleground of the Coming Crypto Regulation Wars

On Wednesday, three U.S. congressional Democrats announced the STABLE Act, an 18-page bill that woul…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-03

Josh Brown on Bitcoin’s ‘Respectability Rally’ and Why We’ll See Dow 100,000 in Our Lifetime

Josh Brown is the CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management. He is also the host of “The Halftime Report” on…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-02

Why a $631B Asset Manager Just Changed Its Mind on Bitcoin

Today on the Brief: Libra is now “Diem”  Christine Lagarde comes down on private stablecoins  Dow…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-12-01

Bitcoin Hits New All-Time High: What Happens Next?

On this historic day, NLW looks at bitcoin’s punching through its previous December 2017 all-time hi…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-30

How Bitcoin Gets to $100,000

On this edition of The Breakdown’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads a recent piece by Hong Fang, CEO of …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-29

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 hol…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-28

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 globa…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-27

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 abo…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-26

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…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-25

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 b…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-24

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 tr…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-23

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 D…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-11-22

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 betw…