BREAKDOWN: Ray Dalio and Big-Picture Power Shifts
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The Bridgewater founder is leaving his firm.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Circle and FTX US.
On this edition of the “Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at a slew of Federal Reserve comments indicating that no pivot on interest rates is on the horizon. He also reads a set of Ray Dalio threads as the famous hedge funder transitions away from his firm.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | 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, Circle, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Saturday, October 8th, and that means it's time for the weekly recap. |
| 0:28.8 | Before we dive in, a quick note, there are two ways to listen to the breakdown. |
| 0:33.6 | You can hear us on the CoinDesk Podcast Network feed, which comes out every afternoon and features |
| 0:37.6 | other great shows alongside the breakdown, or you can listen on the breakdown-only feed, which |
| 0:42.0 | comes out a few hours later in the evening. Wherever you listen, I would so appreciate it if you |
| 0:46.5 | would take the time to leave a rating or a review. It makes a huge difference. Also a disclosure, |
| 0:52.1 | as always. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:54.6 | I also work with FTX. And finally, I want to tell you about CoinDesk's new event, the investing in |
| 1:00.3 | digital enterprises and asset summit or ideas. Ideas is designed to facilitate capital flow and |
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| 1:22.1 | today at coindesk.com slash ideas. So let's actually recap this week, shall we? When it comes to markets, the beginning of the |
| 1:30.7 | week saw some serious excitement. We even had the nerve to ask if we were in store for another |
| 1:36.3 | October. Bitcoin hit 20,000 for the first time in three weeks. Stocks had two back-to-back |
| 1:42.8 | bonkers rally days in a row, but many out there had |
| 1:47.0 | the feeling that it might not really be based on, well, much of anything. Instead, it seemed like |
| 1:52.5 | it was part of a narrative mini cycle that we've seen over and over for the last few months. |
| 1:57.4 | That cycle is step one. Markets get excited about the idea of a Fed pivot. The reason could be anything. |
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