Quantitative Tightening and 5 Key Questions for Our Changing World
As we wrap up another crazy week – 6.6 million more jobless claims, $2.3 trillion more in stimulus – NLW lays out the key themes and questions to think about over the long Easter weekend.

As we wrap up another crazy week – 6.6 million more jobless claims, $2.3 trillion more in stimulus – NLW lays out the key themes and questions to think about over the long Easter weekend.
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On today's episode:
- Crypto-dollarization: Why money is pouring into USD stablecoins and how it could create a future on-ramp to bitcoin
- "Quantitative Tightening": Why a new brand for the bitcoin halving could help us better capture a unique narrative moment
- What it takes to get the economy back to work: Beyond the political hemming and hawking, how can we force the real, nuanced conversation of turning the economy back on?
- What it takes to rebuild as a Resilience Economy – and how can bottom-up networks get started now?
- Moments of transition are moments of leverage: What opportunities can each of us take advantage of?
See also: Nic Carter: 'If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Paying Attention'
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Wrapped XRP will be tradable on Solana, Ethereum and other chains, allowing exposure across DeFi applications without unregulated third-party bridges.
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