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The Raw, Savage Capitalism of Open-Source Protocols
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.
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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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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Note: The views expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of CoinDesk, Inc. or its owners and affiliates.
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.
