Fight the Fed or Love the BRRR? [Long Reads Sunday]
The Breakdown
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4.8 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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. |
| 0:13.5 | This episode is sponsored by BitStamp and Cipher Trace. The breakdown is produced and distributed by Coindesk. |
| 0:22.6 | And now here's your host, NLW. |
| 0:27.5 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:28.6 | It is Sunday, June 21st. |
| 0:30.7 | And last Sunday, I tried something where I, instead of bringing you a normal show, |
| 0:35.7 | I brought you a bonus episode that was a read of an essay that I thought was really interesting. |
| 0:41.2 | Well, I got good feedback on it, and I was thinking about it a little bit more. |
| 0:44.4 | And I have been for the last two years writing a weekly newsletter called Long Read Sunday that looks at the most interesting essays in finance, macro Bitcoin, et cetera. And so I figured that actually |
| 0:56.0 | doing a Sunday essay read might be pretty on point, right? And so I'm going to try it for a few |
| 1:02.2 | weeks. We'll see if you guys like it, if it's value add content, and we'll figure it out from there. |
| 1:07.3 | So this week I'm actually doing two shorter pieces that are, they're not |
| 1:11.8 | necessarily opposed to one another, but they do represent slightly different takes on the same |
| 1:16.9 | issue, which is the Fed. |
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