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

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

Breakdown 10.3

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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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.

Nathaniel Whittemore