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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.
Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:04 a.m. Published Oct 3, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
A monthly recap featuring conversations with Luke Gromen, Raoul Pal, Tavi Costa, Sven Henrich, Corey Hoffstein and Michael Saylor.
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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.
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