BREAKDOWN: Post-Modern Monetary Theory
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🗓️ 27 March 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Why we’ve been living in a monetary experiment.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads two macro-themed Twitter threads.
Sam Bankman-Fried: Post-Modern Monetary Theory
Lyn Alden: The problem with leverage
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, March 27th, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 0:29.7 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 0:34.0 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:37.7 | come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash |
| 0:42.8 | breakdown pot. Also, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:48.3 | I also work with FTX. And speaking of FTX, the first thread in today's show comes from none other than FTX CEO Sam |
| 0:57.9 | Bankman-F, aka SBF. Last Friday, Sam dropped a 50 tweet thread about postmodern monetary theory, |
| 1:06.5 | and if you are wondering if those of us who work with Sam regularly have any better sense of how |
| 1:11.5 | he found time to write and drop a 50-tweet thread in the middle of everything else he's doing, |
| 1:16.4 | the answer is absolutely not. However, the theme of this and the second thread, which is going to |
| 1:21.3 | be from Lynn Alden, is trying to understand what makes this economy tick and what that |
| 1:27.2 | might suggest about where we go next. |
| 1:30.1 | Sam writes, between inflation and recession, postmodern monetary theory, aka a.k.a. number go up. |
| 1:37.6 | I should disclaim this by saying I have very little training in macroeconomics, and in mostly |
| 1:42.1 | piecing this together based on a bunch of different thoughts from people much smarter than I. Much of this is probably wrong, not financial advice. |
| 1:49.5 | Over the past decade, Western central banks have increased monetary supply, a lot. Why? Well, |
| 1:54.8 | let's start with a case where printing money doesn't do anything and then find the differences. |
| 1:59.3 | Let's say the government prints 50 cents for each dollar |
| 2:01.6 | that exists, and air drops those dollars pro rata on everyone. So if you add $6 before, you have $9 now. |
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