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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
2020-10-04

“The Fed Meetings Are a Dead Spectator Sport” Best of The Breakdown September 2020

A recap of September, which NLW calls a transitional month between the post-lockdown excitement of t…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-03

“Good Reason to Worry” What the BitMEX Indictment Means for DeFi and Bitcoin

Today on the Brief: Market reaction to Pres.Trump contracting COVID-19 Subpar September jobs report…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-02

'Stocks Only Go Up' and Other Ignorable Investment Advice

When popular finance writer Morgan Housel asked followers on Twitter to share the commonly held inve…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-10-01

DeFi Summer; Bitcoin Fall

Today on the Brief: Coinbase offers severance to employees who want to leave over new politics poli…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-30

Coinbase’s New Policy: Anti-Woke or Just A Joke?

Monday, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published the innocuously titled “Coinbase Is a Mission-Driven …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-30

So Now They’re Hacking DeFi Protocols Before They’ve Even Launched?

DeFi is one of the breakout crypto categories of 2020. Indeed, yield farming and the grand game of “…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-29

Why Bitcoin's Longest Run Above $10,000 Matters

Today on the Brief: After four weeks down, bitcoin bounces back on suspicions that recent bearishne…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-28

Understanding the Coming Currency Cold War

This week’s Long Reads Sunday is a reading of “The Currency Cold War: Four Scenarios” by Jeff Wilsne…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-27

Why the Stock Market is Poised for Its Worst September Since 2011

On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at the fourth painful week for traditional …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-26

Sven Henrich (NorthmanTrader) on the Ever-Weakening Economic Cycle

Sven Henrich is the founder and lead market strategist at NorthmanTrader. Well known for his appeara…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-25

Did Corporate Insiders Perfectly Predict the Market Top?

Today on the Brief: Initial U.S. jobless claims up to 870,000 Partial lockdowns begin in earnest in…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-24

Violent Reflexivity: Why Market Movements Are More Aggressive Than Ever, Feat. Corey Hoffstein

Corey Hoffstein is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Newfound Research LLC, a quantitative…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-23

Marty Bent on Why Bitcoin and Big Energy Are Unlikely Allies

Today on the Brief: Where the digital euro fits in Lagarde’s economic integration plans New stablec…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-22

The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering

Today on the Brief Stocks down, dollar up on COVID-19 resurgence fears People’s Bank of China says …
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-21

Lyn Alden’s Latest: Why Currency Devaluation Is Inevitable

On this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads macro analyst Lyn Alden’s latest: “A Century of Fisca…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-20

Why the First US Crypto Bank Is a Big Deal

On this edition of The Breakdown weekly recap, NLW looks at: DEXetition – Uniswap’s battle with Sus…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-19

‘I Didn’t Buy It to Sell It. Ever.’ MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor on His $425 Million Bitcoin Bet

MicroStrategy made waves when it announced in early August it was moving $500,000,000 in treasury re…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-18

Raoul Pal: Monetary Policy Is Finished and Macro Debates Are Boring

Raoul Pal is CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, a platform fundamentally disrupting macroeconomics a…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-17

Governments vs. Networks: The Battle for the Soul of Finance

Today on the Brief: Kraken is the first crypto exchange to become a U.S. bank FTC preparing antitru…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-16

The Decade of the Living Dead: How Zombie Companies Are Robbing Tomorrow’s Economy

Today on the Brief: MicroStrategy increases its bitcoin reserves by $175 million  The Oracle-TikTok…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-15

The Business of Geopolitical Competition

Today on the Brief: Crypto exchange volume sees highest month-over-month increase since February 20…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-14

Is Being the ‘Saudi Arabia of Money’ Good for America?

On this week’s Long Reads Sunday, NLW looks at recent statistics suggesting that, based on a compreh…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-13

The Raw, Savage Capitalism of Open-Source Competition

On this edition of the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW looks at: The “holding pattern economy” – why st…
 
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The Breakdown
2020-09-12

‘As Toppy as It Gets’: Metals, Bitcoin and Fiat’s Race to the Bottom, Feat. Tavi Costa

Tavi Costa is a portfolio manager at Crescat Capital. In this conversation with NLW, he discusses: …