BREAKDOWN: The Dollar Wrecking Ball
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The DXY hits its highest levels since 2002.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis and FTX US.
On today’s episode, NLW digs into the idea of the U.S. dollar as a global wrecking ball, and explores why the dollar is the strongest it has been against other currencies in 20 years. As part of this, he also looks at structural weakness in Japanese and European currencies.
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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. |
| 0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, chain aliasis, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Wednesday, July 6th, and today we are talking about the dollar |
| 0:28.5 | wrecking ball. Now, before we get into that, a quick note. There are two ways to listen to the |
| 0:34.2 | Breakdown podcast. You can hear it on the Coin Desk Podcast Network, which |
| 0:38.4 | comes out in the afternoon and features both the breakdown as well as other great shows, |
| 0:42.5 | or you can listen to it on the Breakdown Only feed, which comes out every evening. |
| 0:46.7 | Wherever you listen, if you are enjoying the show, I would so appreciate if you took |
| 0:50.6 | the time to leave a rating or a review, it makes a huge difference, and I appreciate |
| 0:55.0 | each and every one. Lastly, a disclosure, as always. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 1:00.6 | I also work with FTX. So, yesterday we caught up on all things crypto, and since then, the |
| 1:07.8 | craziness has just continued. It was announced this morning that Voyager is seeking bankruptcy protection, and I'm sure that |
| 1:13.7 | something will cover a little bit more as it gets sussed out. |
| 1:16.7 | But today, we are talking macro, and specifically we are talking about King Dala. |
| 1:23.0 | So an important term as we get into this, the DXY or Dixie is an index of dollar exchange rates |
| 1:28.9 | against a basket of international currencies. It's heavily skewed towards reflecting strength |
| 1:34.2 | or weakness against the euro and the Japanese yen, with the Chinese yuan making up the next |
| 1:38.8 | most significant weighting in the basket. So when we talk about the Dixie, it going up means |
| 1:43.7 | the dollar is getting stronger and the reverse means, well, the reverse. On talk about the Dixie, it going up means the dollar is getting stronger, |
| 1:45.0 | and the reverse means, well, the reverse. On Tuesday, the Dixie surged above 106, which is its highest |
| 1:51.7 | level since March 2002. The dollar moved around 1% against most major currency pairs on |
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