BREAKDOWN: With Inflation at 40-Year Highs, How De-Russianization Has Changed the Narrative
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Inflation hits 7.9% and gets more political than ever.
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, Arculus and FTX US.
The U.S. inflation print ran hot again last month, hitting 7.9% year over year and the highest in four decades. In this episode, NLW breaks down the numbers within the numbers. He also previews the evolving politics around inflation and how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has made inflation even more front and center in the global economy.
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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, Arculus, and FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Thursday, March 10th, and today we are talking about the highest |
| 0:27.5 | inflation print in 40 years, and more importantly, how everything going on right now with Russia |
| 0:34.6 | and Ukraine is changing the inflation narrative. |
| 0:38.1 | Now, before we get into that, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go subscribe, rate, |
| 0:42.3 | or review the show, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, come join us on |
| 0:46.9 | the breakers discord. You can find a link of the show notes or go to bit.combe slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:52.1 | Also, a disclosure, as always, in addition to them being a sponsor of the show, |
| 0:56.4 | I also work with FTX. Okay, so to today's topic, inflation is something we've obviously been |
| 1:03.2 | tracking very closely on the breakdown. In fact, inflation has, in somewhere or another, been the |
| 1:09.0 | dominant macro theme since shortly after the COVID-19 shutdowns. |
| 1:14.5 | Almost immediately in the wake of massive central bank intervention, |
| 1:18.8 | people started thinking about the medium-term implications of all that government spent. |
| 1:24.3 | This is a story we've repeated ad nauseum. |
| 1:31.4 | Paul Tudor Jones, great monetary inflation thesis, |
| 1:37.1 | Michael Saylars, melting ice cube, and so on and so forth. This was the inflation narrative was what drove the Bitcoin and later crypto bull market coming out of 2020 going into 2021. |
| 1:43.1 | And of course, throughout last year, 2021, the biggest debate in macro was whether inflation |
| 1:49.0 | was transitory or not. |
| 1:51.2 | On the one side, you had central bankers who were arguing that, yes, it was transitory. |
| 1:55.9 | It was the effect, in other words, of supply chain disruptions coming out of the COVID-19 crisis and a simple dislocation |
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