‘The Fed Meetings Are a Dead Spectator Sport’ – Best of The Breakdown September 2020

Breakdown-10.3
3 October 2020

A monthly recap featuring conversations with Luke Gromen, Raoul Pal, Tavi Costa, Sven Henrich, Corey Hoffstein and Michael Saylor.

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.comNexo.io and Elliptic.co.

A recap of September, which NLW calls a transitional month between the post-lockdown excitement of the summer and the growing macro insecurity around second wave fears and election volatility. 

Featuring some of the most interesting insights from our guests, including:

  • Luke Gromen on the four options for countries that can’t pay their debts
  • Tavi Costa on the Fed’s new “mandate” to keep asset prices high 
  • Raoul Pal on why “monetary policy is over” 
  • Sven Henrich on the ever-weakening economic cycle
  • Corey Hoffstein on the fundamental supply-demand mismatch that exacerbates exogenous shocks
  • Michael Saylor on why he moved his company’s cash reserves to bitcoin 

See also: ‘I Didn’t Buy It to Sell It. Ever.’ MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor on His $425M Bitcoin Bet

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