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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
2020-08-18

What’s Actually Happening with Inflation Right Now

There is perhaps nothing more important or contentious in macroeconomics right now than the question…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-17

Is Asteroid Mining Really Our Best Argument for Bitcoin Over Gold?

Earlier this week, the Winklevoss brothers introduced Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy to bitcoi…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-16

Here Comes the Most Bizarre Bull Market Yet

On this edition of The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW looks at the strange melange of realities inter…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-15

Fortnite vs. Apple/Google is the Internet's First ‘World War’

Today on the Brief: Jobless claims down and retail sales up The U.S. Federal Reserve is running dis…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-14

Preston Pysh on Why We’ve Entered a Fundamentally New Era of Bitcoin Accumulation

The Investor’s Podcast Network cofounder Preston Pysh last recorded with The Breakdown on Black Thur…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-13

#SupplyGate and the Battle to Frame Crypto’s Next Bull Run

Today on the Brief: WSJ study finds TikTok was tracking data in a way that broke Android rules The …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-12

Joe Rogan for Fed Chair! Feat. Hugh Hendry

Today on the Brief: A public company has switched $250 million in cash reserves to bitcoin The late…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-11

The Latest on the Global Economy’s Most Contentious Relationship

Today on the Brief: Grayscale launches national digital asset TV ad campaign Rough times for oil as…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-10

How the Purpose of the Stock Market Has Changed

On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW reads three pieces: Public Markets Don’t Matter Like They Use…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-09

The Mounting Evidence of a New Bitcoin Bull Market

This week’s Breakdown Weekly Recap is all about that vibe you’ve been feeling - that inescapable not…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-08

11 Numbers That Tell the Story of the Economy Right Now

Mainstream financial media loves reporting the stock market like it's the only economic indicator th…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-07

The History, Present, and Future of Central Banks, Feat. George Selgin

Today on the Brief: Better news in the jobless claims this week A new bitcoin adoption cycle? A che…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-06

Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough on Stagflation, Bitcoin and the Devalued Dollar

Today on the Brief: Robinhood doubles quarterly trading revenue Square did $875 billion in bitcoin …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-05

Can Social Media Be Redeemed? Feat. Early Facebooker-turned-Investor Bobby Goodlatte

Today on the Brief: President Trump wants a cut of the TikTok deal Previewing this week’s COVID-19 …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-04

The Best of the Breakdown July 2020

Today on the Brief: The TikTok-Microsoft Deal The Twitter hacker was 17 A changing of the guard for…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-03

What Future Are We Building Bitcoin For?

Bitcoin started as a rebellious, anti-establishment technology. In many parts of the world, and for …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-02

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 actua…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-08-01

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 Engl…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-07-31

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 …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-07-30

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…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-07-29

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 h…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-07-28

SPACs 101: A Bubble, the Future or Both?

Special purpose acquisition companies have been around since the 1990s, but have seen a significant …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-07-27

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 Revie…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-07-26

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 du…