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Cronyism, Zombie Companies and the True Cost of the Coronavirus, Feat. Morgan Creek's Mark Yusko
Why dependency culture, zombie corporations and debt jubilee could be the true cost of the coronavirus.

A wide ranging conversation with the founder of Morgan Creek about how we got to shutdowns, buybacks, bailouts and where we go from here.
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Mark Yusko is the founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management. In this wide-ranging conversation, he and @NLW discuss:
- Why bitcoin has fallen with stocks over the last few weeks
- Why price and value are not the same thing
- Why stocks have been manipulated
- An argument for buybacks being illegal
- Why cronyism is not capitalism
- Why bailouts and other types of intervention help zombie corporations that should perish
- A debate about whether the “cure is worse than the disease”
- The costs of zero-risk tolerance
- The polarization of health vs. economics
- Why there should be a market holiday
- Why bitcoin is the last and only free market
- Why the big market announcements are always on Sunday
- Why we’re headed to debt jubilee
- There is a non-zero probability that Trump tries to cancel the election
- Why a lack of leadership is the biggest cause for pessimism today
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Nathaniel Whittemore
NLW is an independent strategy and communications consultant for leading crypto companies as well as host of The Breakdown – the fastest-growing podcast in crypto. Whittemore has been a VC with Learn Capital, was on the founding team of Change.org, and founded a program design center at his alma mater Northwestern University that helped inspire the largest donation in the school’s history.
