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BREAKDOWN: Monetary Policy is Finished and Macro Debates Are Boring, Feat. Raoul Pal
A wide-ranging conversation about the state of macro, why central banks can’t really do anything and why private markets are leading the future of money.
ABOUT
A wide-ranging conversation about the state of macro, why central banks can’t really do anything and why private markets are leading the future of money.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.
Raoul Pal is CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, a platform fundamentally disrupting macroeconomics and financial media.
In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss:
- Hot takes on the most recent Jerome Powell/Federal Reserve press conference
- Why central banks can’t do anything more until they merge with treasury departments
- Why stablecoins are disrupting how we think about global reserve assets
- Why traditional financial media missed an entire generation of investors
- Why all macro debates are boring
HOST
CoinDesk is the world leader in news, prices and information on bitcoin and other digital currencies.
We cover news and analysis on the trends, price movements, technologies, companies and people in the bitcoin and digital currency world.

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