Dollar Dilemmas & Central Banks Gone Wild: The Best Of The Breakdown April/May 2020

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🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Highlights from some of the most interesting conversations on The Breakdown from the last two months. 4/1 - Peter Zeihan on why the world we’ve known for 30 years is changing forever 4/6 - Emerson Spartz on a moment of punctuated equilibrium 4/17 - Jared Dillian on the political football of stock buy backs 4/21 - Joe McCann on how financial engineering came to dominate Wall Street 4/22 - Luke Gromen on the genesis of the global monetary order and why the US switched off the gold standard in 1971 5/1 - Danielle DiMartino Booth on how the Federal Reserve moved from incompetent to corrupt 5/9 - Niall Ferguson on a shift back to a multipolar, multi-currency world 5/14 - Jeff Booth on why technology deflation competes with inflationary monetary policy 5/20 - Lyn Alden on the negative impacts of a too-strong dollar 5/22 - Tuomas Malinen on why dismantling the Euro may be the only way to save the European Union

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown, an everyday analysis breaking down the most important stories in Bitcoin, crypto, and beyond, with your host, NLW.
0:15.0	The Breakdown is distributed by CoinDesk.
0:20.2	Welcome back to the breakdown.
0:22.7	It is Memorial Day, May 25th Monday.
0:26.1	What's up, guys?
0:27.0	How are you doing?
0:27.6	Hope you're hanging out, having a great weekend, great long weekend if you're in the U.S.
0:32.5	So today I wanted to do something different.
0:35.1	Obviously, it's a special day, it's a holiday, and I thought it would be cool because there's so much content that goes through the breakdown, right? We do five shows a week, tons of interviews. I thought that it might be fun to actually look back across the interviews from April and May to pull out some of the highlight clips, the most interesting things, right?
0:54.7	The statements that had stuck with me even weeks later. So what I'm going to try is a type of
1:00.4	episode. And if you guys like this, I'll do this maybe every month or every couple months,
1:04.2	where I'm just curating my favorite or some of my favorite clips and conversations from
1:08.9	the past month or the past month or two. So I'm going to
1:12.7	kick that off right now. I'm just going to go chronologically for lack of having a clear narrative
1:18.7	that I'm trying to push. So hope you enjoy it and let me know on Twitter at NLW or at Breakdown NLW.
1:25.1	If you like this, definitely hit me up so I know to do more of it. Cheers,
1:29.1	guys. We're kicking it off with Peter Zayan, one of the most interesting thinkers on
1:35.8	geopolitics and the changing shape of the global order, basically in the world. We talked about a huge
1:42.5	number of topics relating to the acceleration of the withdrawal
1:47.1	of the U.S. from the global order that it created in its own image. And we talked about how the
1:52.9	coronavirus had accelerated a number of those transitions in a way that was likely to be really
1:58.6	painful. So we've got two overlapping things that have nothing to do with one another that are
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