Hey, Banclist Nation. Welcome to another state of the nation. We got a hot topic today.

It is definitely top of mind as all of the markets around the world, tumble, including

crypto. That topic is inflation. David, who's on and what are we about to get into?

Jim Bianco, which every time we bring Jim Bianco on, I just feel like we're getting a

little smarter. I definitely could feel like being a little bit smarter right now, Ryan,

because we all know why the markets are tumbling. The Fed is raising interest rates. But what

happens next is just like a fog of war to me. I do not know what happens next. There are

fallouts of what's going on across the world. This is not just a crypto market phenomenon.

This is a global, this is a US equities market phenomenon as well. But it's also going

on in like all macro fiat currencies. And we have like the war in Ukraine is still relevant.

The food shortage is relevant. Supply chain is still broken. So how we get out of this

pain? I do not know. And so Jim Bianco, like no one really knows what the future holds

for us. But Jim Bianco knows more than I do. And so I think he's going to help shed some

light on what feels like a very confusing and tumultuous time.

Yeah. We're hopeful Jim can help explain some of this to us because we feel very comfortable

in the crypto world. But as we said before in Bankless, we're kind of learning a bit more

about the old financial world by way of crypto. And we just haven't gotten to that chapter

yet of how does inflation interact with crypto assets? Crypto has never been present in

an era as like the era that's happening right now. So Jim is going to serve as that bridge

for us. What I love about him is he knows macro very, very well and can school us there.

And he also knows crypto and defy so can talk about that too. So we're going to get into

that episode with Jim want to give a shout out to our friends at Metamask as well. I

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