BREAKDOWN: Why Economic Wars Are Inflationary
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Why our understanding of inflation might be fundamentally mistaken.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Chainalysis, FTX US and NEAR.
On this edition of “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW excerpts Credit Suisse analyst Zoltan Pozsar’s “War and Interest Rates.”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.2 | 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. |
| 0:22.9 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, August 14th, and that means it's time for Long Read Sunday. |
| 0:29.5 | Before we get into that, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe to it, |
| 0:33.4 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dig deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:37.0 | comment join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash |
| 0:41.8 | breakdown pod. Also a disclosure as always. In addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:46.5 | I also work with FTX. And finally, this week, I am thrilled to have NIR as an additional sponsor. |
| 0:52.7 | Near is a revolutionary yet simple Web3 platform for building decentralized apps. |
| 0:57.4 | Designed by developers for developers, over 700 projects are now building on NIR's fast, |
| 1:01.8 | secure, and scalable protocol. |
| 1:04.4 | Whether you're a crypto-native launching DeFi apps, NFT marketplaces, or play and earned games, |
| 1:09.4 | or looking to migrate your project from Web 2, |
| 1:11.8 | NIR makes it easy to build Web 3 for the masses. |
| 1:14.8 | NIR offers developers a variety of tools, resources, and support for building apps, |
| 1:19.7 | empowering communities, and creating a more fair, inclusive, and equitable future. |
| 1:24.3 | Start your Web3 developer journey now by visiting near at near.org. |
| 1:28.7 | All right, guys, so for this Long Read Sunday, we are staying in the realm of the geopolitical |
| 1:33.5 | and the macro, but doing something a little bit different. Zoltan Pozar is one of the most |
| 1:37.7 | followed thinkers in macro. Currently, he's at Credit Suisse. On August 1st, he published a massive |
| 1:43.4 | note called War and Interest Rates. |
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