BREAKDOWN: Bullish or Bearish? 2022 Markets Started Rough, but It Wasn't Just Crypto
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🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Markets were down, fundraising was up and regulatory intrigue was everywhere.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo, Arculus and FTX US.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at what the first month of the year taught us about what to expect in 2022. Overall, he argues that the most important megatrend was the shift from risk-off to risk-on as the U.S. Federal Reserve looks towards quantitative tightening later in the year. He looks at:
- Crypto markets down
- Stock market down
- Venture investment into crypto hit $4.4 billion for the month
- Regulatory happenings and why the crypto lobby is more prepared than ever
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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Vision” by OBOY. Image credit: Jackie Niam/iStock/Getty Images Plus, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8.
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| 0:53.9 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:59.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 1:04.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, February 1st, and that means we are doing a little bit |
| 1:17.7 | of a review of how 2022 got started. Are things bullish? Are they bearish? Are they somewhere |
| 1:24.6 | in between? We will get into all of that, but first, if you're |
| 1:27.8 | enjoying the breakdown, go subscribe to the show, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you |
| 1:32.6 | want to dig deeper into the conversation, join us on the breakers discord. You can find the link in |
| 1:38.0 | the show notes, or you can go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. And as always, a quick disclosure. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 1:47.1 | I also work with FTX. So what we are doing today, as I mentioned, is we're going to look at January. |
| 1:53.6 | This is a January review. It's February 1st. Kind of just makes sense, right? Let's start with |
| 1:59.0 | the tail of the tape. Bitcoin started January at around |
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