BREAKDOWN: What Davos Man Thinks of Bitcoin and Crypto This Year
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
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On today’s episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW previews two things happening this week:
- First, hope from the markets that slightly dovish comments from the Fed might prompt a relief rally.
- Second, a preview of the discussions that will be taking place at the World Economic Forum, particularly around bitcoin and crypto.
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Transcript
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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, near an FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, May 23rd, and today we are talking about what Davos |
| 0:28.3 | man thinks of crypto, as well as the markets hope for a relief rally. |
| 0:34.2 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 0:38.5 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:43.1 | come join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit. |
| 0:47.3 | combe, slash breakdown pod. Also a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor |
| 0:52.6 | of the show, I also work with FTX. |
| 0:55.9 | So today we are doing a little bit of a preview of the week to come, and we're going to be |
| 1:00.0 | focusing on two specific things. The first is the latest in the macro environment. So much of what's |
| 1:07.4 | happening in all markets, crypto and beyond, is being shaped now by the complex |
| 1:12.6 | interplay of expectations around the government's response to, on the one hand, inflation, which |
| 1:18.3 | has been the dominant force of the last year plus, and on the other, the risk of recession if the |
| 1:22.7 | tools used to impede inflation are too heavy-handed. There are, of course, a million other macro and geopolitical |
| 1:29.4 | factors, from supply disruptions based on war in Ukraine to China-COVID lockdowns and so on and so |
| 1:36.2 | forth. But when it comes to U.S. markets, there is a clinging to any sign and signal from the Fed. |
| 1:43.8 | On Friday, at the end of the trading day, there was an |
| 1:46.1 | unexpected bump in U.S. equities. Many pointed as a source to comments from St. Louis Federal |
| 1:51.8 | Reserve President James Bullard's comments that hit the wires at almost exactly the bottom. |
| 1:56.9 | In those comments, he said, first, that we have to get inflation under control. |
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