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Welcome back to the breakdown.

It is Saturday, May 23rd, and as every Saturday, I am bringing you the complete run of shows

from this week, all in one convenient episode.

By way of intro this week, I don't have too much to say, mostly because I'm hoping that

you're all out enjoying your friends and family in a

loosened restriction environment. And maybe that's the tone or tenor from this week. We are seeing

an increasing opening back up and business and normal life resuming, at least on some level,

even though there are these still big structural changes.

And right now, I don't feel is the time to try to kind of get gotchas by saying it's too soon or

too not. I think for me, at least, it's time to be hopeful that we've sufficiently flatten

the curve, that businesses can really do what they need to do,

so we're not just kind of pushing everyone onto the government dole for forever and ever,

amen. But when it comes to the breakdown, we had an awesome week of interviews. It was a very

interview heavy week, as some weeks are. We kicked it off with Albert Wagner from

Union Square Ventures on Monday discussing the

world after capital and what it means to design for a new knowledge era. On Tuesday, Jamie Catherwood,

who works at O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, but who's better known as the Twitter finance

history guy, joined to talk about the history of pandemics from a financial perspective

and what we might learn from that history. On Wednesday, I had Lynn Alden join. Lynn is a

Fin twit rock star. She's an incredibly astute and eloquent observer of the U.S. dollar and global

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