The Chad Index Versus Doomer Internet Money: The Breakdown Weekly Recap

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Investing, Business

4.8 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The stock market has long been disconnected from the underlying economy, but much of what happened this week - particularly the pumping of bankrupt company stocks - suggests that something new is afoot. In this episode, NLW breaks down three long-term trends suggested by the so-called Robinhood Rally, including: The “insurgency” aspect of a generation of young professionals who are willing to play the financial game rather than have it be played for them A totally new force in financial media, which could hit like a wrecking ball in one of the stodgiest, traditional media industries An embrace of a certain type of cynicism or nihilism when it comes to the values of financial markets This week on The Breakdown: Monday | Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today’s Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan The founder of Popular Front joins NLW for a discussion about protests, media and how the people being covered tend to not reflect divisive politics. Tuesday | What the Stock Market’s ‘Robinhood Rally’ Means for Bitcoin The largest 50-day rally in stock market history and even shares of bankrupt companies are up more than 100%. What is going on? Wednesday | A Vision for Digital Property Rights, Feat. Nic Carter Most people today look at social platforms like any other private company, but what if we saw them as alternative jurisdictions with a new set of property rights? Thursday | Why the Fed Keeps Denying Its Role in Increasing Inequality The Federal Reserve expects low inflation, says rates will stay close to zero through 2022 and keeps lying about the role of central banks in increasing inequality. Friday | Bitcoin Is More Than an Inflation Hedge While fears of a “great monetary inflation” have driven the recent bitcoin narrative, other aspects like censorship resistance and peaceful protest matter just as much. Saturday | The Chad Index Versus Doomer Internet Money: The Breakdown Weekly Recap This week, the wildest, most nonsensical, volatile part of the market wasn’t bitcoin, it was the “Robinhood Rally” in equities.

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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.
0:17.8	The breakdown is produced and distributed by Coindesk.
0:22.6	And now, here's your host, NLW.
0:28.0	Welcome back to The Breakdown.
0:30.1	It is Saturday, June 13th, and this is the weekly recap.
0:34.5	Normally, I have more guest shows than I had this week. I ended up doing a lot of analysis,
0:40.1	both because there was a lot going on, but also because I had a couple cancellations at the last
0:43.9	minute. But I still, even with that, wanted to reflect on something that I think is a really
0:49.2	important concept that comes out of the stock market insanity. And before that, I briefly want to shout
0:55.9	out Adam Singer for the epic title of this episode. He tweeted earlier in the week,
1:00.9	Crypto Twitter currently losing their minds that the NASDAQ is above 10K and Bitcoin is still
1:06.5	stuck in the 9,000s, the Chad Index versus Dumer Internet Money. And some folks in the crypto
1:12.1	community got annoyed because Singer was needling them again, but I just thought the Chad Index
1:16.4	versus Dumer Internet money was just about the best thing I ever heard. So shout out to Adam
1:20.8	for that epic title. I apologize for just totally appropriating it. Anyways, it's very clear that
1:26.2	the big theme of this week from a financial
1:28.7	perspective was the nuttiness in the regular markets. Bitcoin has been comparatively boring. It's been
1:35.3	one of its least volatile periods in the last little bit. And meanwhile, the stock market has
1:40.5	been full of people pumping bankrupt stocks. Now, we've finally seen a little bit of a
1:44.7	correction in that, but it's still notable just how interesting a time it is for regular
1:50.6	markets and what an insurgent force this group of Robin Hood ralliers present. I think that we've
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