BREAKDOWN: Bleak Week as Bitcoin Hits 3-Month Low
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🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Sentiment is down and enforcement actions are up ahead of the FOMC meeting this week.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW looks at why bitcoin hit a three-month low over the weekend. He also discusses traders’ predictions about the upcoming interest rate hike at this week’s Federal Open Market Committee meeting and a new enforcement action from the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| 0:00.0 | why wouldn't the Fed be even more aggressive and just go all the way to 1%. |
| 0:03.6 | I think there are a few reasons. |
| 0:05.9 | The first is that reading between the lines, in some ways the biggest priority for the Fed |
| 0:10.4 | remains psychological. |
| 0:12.3 | They don't want inflation expectations to become entrenched. |
| 0:16.0 | They keep referencing the 1970s as a time where the Fed waffled, and they don't want to be |
| 0:20.2 | seen as doing that. |
| 0:21.9 | I don't believe that doing another 75 basis point hike for a third meeting in a row |
| 0:25.8 | will appear to anyone to be a waffle, so they don't have a, let's call it, marketing need to go |
| 0:30.9 | all the way to 100. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:37.6 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:43.3 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexus.com, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:51.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, September 19th, and today we are talking about what is shaping up to be a bleak week. |
| 1:00.4 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, come join us on the breakers discord. |
| 1:09.9 | You can find a link in the show notes or go to |
| 1:11.3 | bit.ly slash breakdown pod. Also a disclosure as always. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 1:17.0 | I also work with FTX. Well, folks, I have just one word to say about this past weekend, and that is |
| 1:23.6 | blech. I hope with all of my heart that you are off doing something fun rather than sitting |
| 1:28.5 | around watching prices go down and down and down some more. So it is with a heavy heart that I say |
| 1:33.9 | welcome to Bleak Week Baby. Now obviously the big event coming up this week is the FOMC meeting |
| 1:40.7 | which will happen on Tuesday and Wednesday. One way or another, this meeting will produce |
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