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This week, Michael Saylor, the MicroStrategy CEO-turned-king of bitcoin treasuries, called upon fellow business executives to avoid the path of financial “serfdom” and outlined a strategy for corporate bitcoin adoption. Nic Carter, the founding partner at Castle Island Ventures, joined to discuss what get people get wrong about bitcoin's climate footprint. Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, came on to talk about Senator Mitt Romney's plan to fight child poverty and the problems he sees with using tax credits to alleviate poverty. Then Claudia Sahm, a former Federal Reserve economist and Bloomberg Opinion columnist, made the case for going as broad as possible with stimulus checks.
This week, Jon Huntley, senior economist at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, came on to discuss the budgetary and economic impact of the infrastructure package. Rune Christensen, the co-founder of MakerDAO, joined to talk DeFi and decentralized stable coins. Zvi Schreiber, the CEO and founder of...
Published 08/14/21
Serial SPAC dealmaker Betsy Cohen joined to talk about finding her seventh target, Pico, a New York-based technology provider for financial services companies that merged with FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. in a $1.75 billion blank-check company deal. Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming,...
Published 08/07/21