Dollar Dilemmas & Central Banks Gone Wild: The Best Of The Breakdown April/May 2020

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