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May 2020
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Dollar Dilemmas & Central Banks Gone Wil...

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About this episode
Highlights from some of the most interesting conversations on The Breakdown from the last two months. 
  • 4/1 - Peter Zeihan on why the world we’ve known for 30 years is changing forever
  • 4/6 - Emerson Spartz on a moment of punctuated equilibrium 
  • 4/17 - Jared Dillian on the political football of stock buy backs
  • 4/21 - Joe McCann on how financial engineering came to dominate Wall Street
  • 4/22 - Luke Gromen on the genesis of the global monetary order and why the US switched off the gold standard in 1971
  • 5/1 - Danielle DiMartino Booth on how the Federal Reserve moved from incompetent to corrupt 
  • 5/9 - Niall Ferguson on a shift back to a multipolar, multi-currency world
  • 5/14 - Jeff Booth on why technology deflation competes with inflationary monetary policy 
  • 5/20 - Lyn Alden on the negative impacts of a too-strong dollar
  • 5/22 - Tuomas Malinen on why dismantling the Euro may be the only way to save the European Union 
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