BREAKDOWN: The Iron Firewall Descends as Visa, Mastercard and PayPal Leave Russia
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🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Netflix and TikTok also restricted services in the country.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus, FTX US and Cointelli.
Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at Russia’s increasing economic isolation. Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all announced their plans to stop servicing the country while Netflix and TikTok also restricted access, citing new “fake news” laws. Meanwhile, the world is grappling with higher prices of key Russian export commodities, such as oil and wheat.
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| 0:00.0 | The point here is not to say that these sanctions are the wrong move. |
| 0:04.5 | But now that we are more than a week into this thing, coming up on two, |
| 0:08.6 | we're starting to get the glimpses of the long-term fallout |
| 0:11.5 | of not only the violent conflict on the ground, |
| 0:14.6 | but of the economic response and the economic war happening around it as well. |
| 0:18.9 | Like it or not, it is now setting the context for basically |
| 0:22.0 | everything else that happens in the global economy. Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, |
| 0:28.5 | NLW. It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:35.4 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, arculus, and FtX, |
| 0:39.4 | and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. What's going on, guys? It is Monday, March 7th, |
| 0:46.1 | and today we are discussing the iron firewall. Visa, MasterCard, TikTok, Netflix, all of these companies are leaving Russia. |
| 0:56.5 | We're going to talk about the implications and the broader global economic ripple effects. |
| 1:01.4 | Before that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe, give it a rating, |
| 1:05.7 | give it a review, or come join us on the Breakers Discord. |
| 1:09.0 | It's where you can discuss not only the day's shows, but |
| 1:11.3 | whatever else is going on in the world of crypto or beyond. A disclosure, as always, in addition to |
| 1:16.9 | them being a sponsor, I also work with FTX. And finally, it is that time of year, tax time, |
| 1:23.8 | and Quintelli is here to help. Quintelli is here to make crypto tax reporting stress-free for both individuals and |
| 1:30.1 | accountants. |
| 1:31.1 | Designed by CPAs, Cointeli supports hundreds of crypto platforms and provides accurate |
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