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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Adam B. Levine is our executive producer and our holiday theme music is “Spike The Eggnog” by Two Dudes. The music you heard today behind our sponsor is “Dark Crazed Cap” by Isaac Joel. Image credit: Westend61/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk.
Editor R. R. Reno is joined by Stanley Payne to discuss his article from the January print edition, “Antifascists After Fascism.” They discuss the complex history of fascism in the 1930s, the utilization of antifascist rhetoric by the Communist International, and the reappearance of supposedly antifascist groups in our own time.
Marco Palladino migrated from Italy about 10 years ago.. and brought all of his Italian hobbies with him. He loves to cook - specifically pasta, of course - and enjoys a good glass of wine. He has a family, with 1 kid and 1 on the way. He loves sports, soccer and skiing. Beyond that, he is a self taught developer, where tech has been his side hobby and passion, but turned into his full time gig.
Marco and his co-founder came to San Francisco 10 years ago, to build an API marketplace. Over time, they amassed 300,000 developers, consuming and publishing API's. Eventually, the figured out the business model wasn't working... so they open sourced the platform.
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Join hosts Adam B. Levine and Stephanie Murphy along with special guest Josh Scigala, CEO of Vaultoro, for a wide-ranging exploration of the growing asset class of "Stablecoins."
The possibility of central banks or regulators banning private 1:1 stablecoins.
The challenges faced by early, decentralized, overcollateralized stablecoins.
How negative interest rates will drive 1:1 stablecoins into fractional reserve.
The potential weaponization of unlimited money printing to take control of limited resources.
The scenario where governments freeze bank accounts connected to 1:1 backed coins in an attempt to destroy the wider crypto economy.
The Potential for mismanagement of funds by 1:1 companies and threat of a Lehman brothers 2.0
The shrinking but still dangerous dearth of transparency within the biggest stablecoin balance sheets
Why regulators can't seem to keep up with real solutions
Why Josh believes decentralised stablecoins present a better set of tradeoffs.
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Today’s show featured Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Adam B. Levine, with editing by Jonas. Music for todays show was provided by Jared Rubens and Gurtybeats.com. Our episode art was created by Adam B. Levine using pixelmind.ai
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The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
Joe Manchin officially kills Build Back Better, CNN checks in with Mary Katharine and Vic's favorite Omicron-tracking doctor, and the Bidens re-home their old dog to make room for a brand-new puppy.
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00:12 - Segment: Welcome to the Show
09:40 - Segment: The News You Need to Know
09:45 - Build Back Better is DOA, courtesy of Senator Joe Manchin
20:18 - Omicron cases spike in Mid-Atlantic region
26:17 - Dr. Angelique Coetzee talks Omicron on CNN
33:58 - There's a new puppy in the White House, and to make room, Major gets the boot
41:35 - Can you smell dead ants? TikTok on smelling ants goes viral
Here is the many-faceted, world-historically significant story of Britain at war. In looking closely at the military and political dimensions of the conflict's first crucial years, Alan Allport tackles questions such as: Could the war have been avoided? Could it have been lost? Were the strategic decisions the rights ones? How well did the British organize and fight? How well did the British live up to their own values? What difference did the war make in the end to the fate of the nation?
In answering these and other essential questions he focuses on the human contingencies of the war, weighing directly at the roles of individuals and the outcomes determined by luck or chance. Moreover, he looks intimately at the changes in wartime British society and culture.Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941(Knopf, 2020) draws on a large cast of characters--from the leading statesmen and military commanders who made the decisions, to the ordinary men, women, and children who carried them out and lived through their consequences--in a comprehensible and compelling single history of forty-six million people. For better or worse, much of Britain today is ultimately the product of the experiences of 1938-1941.
The news to know for Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021!
We're detailing President Biden's latest plan to slow the spread of the omicron variant and what new restrictions are coming for major cities around the country.
Also, why lawyers, truck drivers, celebrities, and millions of other Americans are pushing back against one person's prison sentence.
Plus, which Team USA athletes dropped out of the winter Olympics, a medical breakthrough that could help people avoid getting HIV, and how Mariah Carey is still setting records with a song that's nearly 30 years old.
