Month: December 2021

A near record number of cases as Omicron spreads rapidly. Vaccine and mask mandates expand. The holiday travel and shopping rush. CBS News Correspondent Peter King has today's World News Roundup.

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This was the year that institutions finally, truly arrived. 

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.

On this edition of “The Breakdown’s” “End of Year Extravaganza,” Galaxy Digital’s head of firmwide research discusses the key trends that shaped 2021. 

Find our guest on Twitter: @intangiblecoins 

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Alabama

• Matthew Clark at ACLL asks SCOTUS to issue stay on vaccine mandates before Christmas
• Former Chairwoman for AL Democratic Party is hospitalized and gravely ill
• Saraland woman pleads guilty to defrauding federal PPP program for Covid losses
• Elmore County authorities continue search for 68 year old man gone missing last week
• Southern Women's exhibition in Birmingham is cancelled
• Firefighters in Killen rescue dog that fell down a 300 foot ravine

National

• Department of Defense is redefining what extremism looks like in military ranks
• Biden issues ominous warning re: Omicron virus, mRNA vaccine inventor disagrees
• Deadline approaches for replacing the unsatisfactory PCR test for detecting Covid 19
• Turns out the missionaries in Haiti are free because of an escape they planned  
• 39 Americans were recently removed from Afghanistan by group called Project Dynamo

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."

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, KuCoin and DeFiHorse.

On this episode we discuss:

• 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.

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