BREAKDOWN: Paul Tudor Jones – 'It's Hard Not to Want to Be Long Crypto Because of the Intellectual Capital'
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🗓️ 3 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The billionaire hedge funder previews a very tough period for the Fed.
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On today’s episode, NLW previews the upcoming Fed meeting through the lens of a CNBC interview with billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones. Jones characterized this as one of the most challenging times for the Fed in its history and said that it’s an unbelievably bad time for financial assets. The founder of Tudor Investment also discusses the reasons why he’s long-term bullish on crypto, which include an influx of human capital.
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| 0:00.0 | The Great Monetary Inflation thesis, which has been so wrapped up with Bitcoin and Tudor Jones |
| 0:05.0 | coming to Bitcoin, was predicated on what was validated to be a pretty dead on assessment |
| 0:10.1 | of a coming secular shift in the macroeconomic landscape and the potential challenges of the Fed's |
| 0:15.3 | response to it. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:22.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:28.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near NFTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:35.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, May 3rd, and today we are checking in on our old friend |
| 0:41.6 | Paul Tudor Jones. Before that, a couple housekeeping notes. There are two ways to listen to the |
| 0:48.3 | breakdown. You can listen on the CoinDesk Crypto Podcast Network feed, which features the breakdown |
| 0:53.4 | as well as other great shows, or you can listen on the breakdown-est Crypto Podcast Network feed, which features the breakdown as well as other great shows, |
| 0:55.4 | or you can listen on the Breakdown Only feed. |
| 0:58.1 | The CoinDesk feed comes out in the afternoon, and the Breakdown Only feed comes out in the evening. |
| 1:02.9 | Wherever you listen, if you're enjoying it, chuck a subscription our way. |
| 1:07.6 | Leave a rating, leave a review. |
| 1:09.4 | And of course, if you want to get into the conversation |
| 1:11.8 | in a deeper way, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes. |
| 1:17.5 | Lastly, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, I also work |
| 1:22.0 | with FTX. So this is sort of our Fed meeting preview show today, but we're going to come at it through |
| 1:29.1 | the lens of Paul Tudor Jones. For those of you who aren't familiar, PtieJ is from a crop of hedge |
| 1:34.6 | funders of the era of Julian Robertson and Tiger that we talked about the other day. He started |
| 1:40.1 | the hedge fund that he's still investing out of in 1980. Where Jones really started to |
| 1:45.5 | become known was for predicting 1987's Black Monday crash. Earlier that year, he had said, |
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