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Breakdown-9.12
12 September 2020

Recapping the biggest stories of the week, including Joe Biden’s China plan, a market holding pattern and, of course, the strange competitive saga of SUSHI.

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This episode is sponsored by Crypto.comBitstamp and Nexo.io.

On this edition of the Breakdown Weekly Recap, NLW looks at:

  • The “holding pattern economy” – why stocks, jobs and central bank policy seem stuck in place
  • Why Joe Biden’s China plan shows that, no matter who wins the presidential election, U.S. economic policy towards China is likely to get more aggressive
  • The surveillance state gets stronger as Amazon appoints a former NSA head to its board of directors
  • The SUSHI saga

This week on The Breakdown:

Monday | Sorry, Governments, We’re Entering the Era of Private Money

Tuesday | Why Bitcoin Investors Aren’t Worried About This Price Pullback

Wednesday |‘Absolute Raging Mania’: Famed Investor Druckenmiller Thinks 10% Inflation Is Possible

Thursday | How Monetary Policy Undermined American Resilience

Friday | ‘As Toppy as It Gets’: Metals, Bitcoin and Fiat’s Race to the Bottom, Feat. Tavi Costa

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