BREAKDOWN: The World’s Most Important Geopolitical Fault Lines, Feat. Tracy Shuchart
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
From the Middle East to the South China Sea, a look at the most volatile parts of the world and what they mean for the macroeconomic landscape.
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On today’s episode, NLW is joined by investor and FinTwit star Tracy Shuchart. On the show, they discuss:
- The world’s most important geopolitical fault lines, from the Middle East to China
- The early indicators from the Biden administration around foreign policy
- Jerome Powell’s recent statements on CBDCs
- The changing global energy landscape
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.0 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.5 | The breakdown is sponsored by nex0.io and Casper and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.6 | What's going on, guys? It is some day in March. Again, I'm on a brief baby leave. I'll be back |
| 0:28.0 | with you soon. But in the meantime, I'm so excited to bring you a show today with Tracy |
| 0:33.8 | Shuchart. Tracy is a returning guest to the show. She is an investor and FinTwit |
| 0:38.6 | superstar specializing in energy and geopolitics. Now, you guys know for me, the geopolitical |
| 0:44.5 | context is so incredibly important for understanding Bitcoin and any other asset. But this year, |
| 0:51.0 | there has been such a mad rush of Bitcoin news that I frankly just haven't had as |
| 0:55.9 | much space on shows to go deep into how things are revolving from a geopolitical standpoint. |
| 1:01.4 | That's exactly what Tracy and I do here talking about fault lines in the Middle East, Iran, |
| 1:07.1 | China, and more. We also get into a discussion around energy, natural gas in Africa, nuclear |
| 1:12.4 | in Asia, and more. I know you're going to enjoy this show, so without any further ado, let's dive in. |
| 1:18.8 | Quick note, I'm Rob. I'm NLW's audio editor and just wanted to let you know in advance that the audio |
| 1:24.1 | quality of this interview is not quite up to snuff. Know that we're aware of it and hopefully you'll still enjoy it. |
| 1:30.2 | All right, Tracy, welcome back to the breakdown. |
| 1:32.5 | It's great to have you here. |
| 1:33.8 | Yeah, thanks for having me again. |
| 1:35.6 | So we were just talking about this and basically I feel like I, you know, |
| 1:39.5 | the markets in Bitcoin have been so nuts for the past couple months that I have not had |
| 1:44.0 | nearly enough time to talk about, you know, The markets in Bitcoin have been so nuts for the past couple months that I have not had nearly |
| 1:44.5 | enough time to talk about, you know, kind of larger macro topics, larger geopolitical topics. |
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