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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
2020-06-06

Everything You Need To Know About The US & China: The Biggest Realignment Since Nixon, Feat. Graham …

The U.S.-China relationship has an outsized impact on global economics and politics. As that relatio…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-06-05

The Mirage of the Money Printer: Why the Fed Is More PR Than Policy, Feat. Jeffrey P. Snider

The conventional wisdom is that central banks are the most important economic actors in the world. M…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-06-04

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 b…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-06-03

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 …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-06-02

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 bla…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-30

The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 30 2020

The week's episodes in one convenient file.  Monday | Best of April/May (not included in Weekly Rec…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-30

The Battle for the Future of Money, feat. Lawrence Summers, CZ, Michelle Phan, the Winklevoss brothe…

As the economic dimension of the COVID-19 crisis comes into clearer view, what have we learned about…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-29

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 Joh…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-28

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 …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-27

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.…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-25

Dollar Dilemmas & Central Banks Gone Wild: The Best Of The Breakdown April/May 2020

Highlights from some of the most interesting conversations on The Breakdown from the last two months…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-23

The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 23 2020

The complete week's shows in one convenient episode Monday | Economic Freedom in the World After Ca…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-23

In The Shadow of Satoshi's Ghost: Why Bitcoin Mythology Matters

On Wednesday, a batch of coins mined just a month after bitcoin’s birth were moved. It was the first…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-22

‘Dismantle the Euro to Save Europe’ Feat. Tuomas Malinen

The European Union and the euro are part of the most ambitious political and economic experiment of …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-21

Why a Strong Dollar Is Bad for the US and Bad for the World, feat. Lyn Alden

The dollar has a unique role in the world due to its reserve currency status. For many years that st…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-20

Lessons from the Financial History of Pandemics, feat. Jamie Catherwood

Jamie Catherwood works at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, a quantitative long-equity investment firm…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-19

Economic Freedom in the World After Capital, feat. Albert Wenger

Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures as well as a prolific thinker and writer. His “W…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-16

The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 16 2020

The complete week's shows in one convenient file  Monday | The Great Monetary Inflation: Paul Tudor…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-16

The Great Inflation Escape: Where Bitcoin Fits In the New Monetary Order [Money Reimagined Pt. 3]

Niall Ferguson has called this moment an “age of experimentation” when it comes to currencies. One o…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-15

Surveying The Carnage: Movies, Sports, and Education in Crisis

  This is the second in a series of episodes on how the economic crisis is challenging and transform…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-14

A Coming Reckoning: Why The Fed Can't Outspend Deflation, feat. Jeff Booth

Two powerful and diametrically opposed forces are shaping the economy.  On the one hand is inflation…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-13

How We Future Now - Live With Kathleen Breitman, Caitlin Long and More

There is a shared sense that the world has shifted. Now begins the messy work of figuring out what i…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-12

The Great Monetary Inflation: Paul Tudor Jones' Complete Case For Bitcoin

Jones' letter lays out his bitcoin and macro thesis.  Last week, investing legend Paul Tudor Jones r…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-05-09

The Breakdown Weekly Recap | May 9 2020

The week's complete show run in one convenient file.  Monday | Why Buffett’s Bearishness Should End…