BREAKDOWN: The Bretton Woods III Thesis
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🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Is the world entering a new monetary order?
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Earlier this week, Credit Suisse strategist Zoltan Pozsar published a research memo titled “Bretton Woods III” that argued the West’s Russia sanctions were an inflection point moment that would push the world economy into a new world monetary order. In this episode, NLW breaks down the argument, shares some counterpoints and explores what it all has to do with bitcoin.
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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 Friday, March 11th, and today we have a fun one. It is a think |
| 0:29.2 | boy Friday. We are talking about the Bretton Woods 3 thesis. Before we get into that, |
| 0:35.4 | however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe, |
| 0:38.3 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into big, highfalutin |
| 0:43.3 | conversations like this one, come join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show |
| 0:47.8 | notes or go to bit.orgie slash breakdown pod. Also, a disclosure as always, in addition to them |
| 0:53.9 | being a sponsor of the show, I also work with |
| 0:57.0 | FTX. Now, I've been around the block a bit. I know when a theory or a phrase is going to have |
| 1:04.3 | legs. Great monetary inflation from Paul Tudor Jones was one of them. Michael Saylor's sitting on a |
| 1:10.3 | melting ice cube was a visual |
| 1:11.8 | version. Bretton Woods 3 has that potential, and this of course comes from a strategist at Credit |
| 1:18.9 | Suisse named Zoltan POSAR. As I said, Zoltan is an investment strategist at Credit Suisse, |
| 1:24.5 | but that doesn't really do it justice. He was a senior advisor at the |
| 1:27.8 | Department of the Treasury, where he advised the Office of Debt Management and Office of |
| 1:31.1 | Financial Research and served as the Treasury's liaison to the FSB on matters of financial |
| 1:36.2 | innovation. He joined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in August of 2007 and was in charge |
| 1:41.6 | of market intelligence for securitized credit markets. |
| 1:48.8 | He got a big part of his start mapping the shadow banking system, helping, for example, |
| 1:53.9 | the IMF form their official position on it. He's been around and he goes deep and most importantly other people listen to him. And on March 7th, he wrote a Credit Suisse economics paper called |
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