BREAKDOWN: 15 Key Economic Questions After Russia Invades Ukraine
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🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
From sanctions to Bitcoin to the Fed.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus, and FTX US.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NLW explores 15 key economic questions including:
1. Why isn’t the world going even bigger on sanctions?
2. How is Russia’s economy tied to the rest of the world?
3. Why isn’t Russia scared of sanctions?
4. Will Russia retaliate by cutting off the world from its exports?
5. Will we see SWIFT sanctions?
6. Is there concern in the U.S. that SWIFT sanctions could threaten the U.S. dollar’s status as a global reserve?
7. What alternatives to SWIFT exist?
8. Does this put Bitcoin in the spotlight and shed new light on Russia’s legalization/regulation?
9. Does this situation risk the politicization of Bitcoin?
10. How does this change the discussion of CBDCs and stablecoins?
11. Why did the price of BTC drop and will we see the other side?
12. How does this change the Fed’s calculus about quantitative tightening?
13. Does this change the discussion around green energy?
14. What about China and Taiwan?
15. Is there any possibility of sanctions actually working?
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| 0:49.8 | Now, that said, I do think it's an open question about what Russia does in that context. |
| 0:55.2 | Is it willing to throw its lot in with another power? |
| 0:58.4 | Especially when so many of Putin's actions seem designed not just to get it away from the U.S. |
| 1:03.8 | but to reinstate Russia as a power in its own right? |
| 1:07.3 | Does that mean that Russia instead tries to take advantage of an alternative system like Bitcoin |
| 1:11.7 | that hedges not only the U.S. dollar system, but also an emergent alternative such as a Chinese |
| 1:16.6 | digital currency? |
| 1:18.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 1:23.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:29.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:36.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, February 24th, and today we are asking the key economic |
| 1:42.7 | questions after Russia invades Ukraine. This is a |
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