Patreon Preview – 163. TMK BC3, Ch.9, Dawn of Everything
We dive into chapter 9 – Hiding in Plain Sight – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We discuss the utopian experiment of Teotihuacan in Mesoamerica 2000 years ago: a city that revolted ...
30 Maj 20229min
*Unlocked* – In the Shadow Banks of Silicon Valley (part 2)
(While Jereme works to overcome a technical problem from our last record, we are unlocking an episode.) We continue our discussion of Hilary Allen’s paper on DeFi and shadow banking and dive into h...
25 Maj 20221h 30min
Patreon Preview – 162. Bring on the Eternal Winter
(Sorry for the delay!) We comb through Andreessen Horowitz’s inaugural 2022 State of Crypto Report, devoting more time and attention to discussing its claims and framing than it should warrant. But co...
24 Maj 20228min
161. Visions of Bubbles Dancing in My Head
We check in on our old friend / enemy / mentor, Masayoshi Son, and see how the SoftBank Vision Fund has been faring over the last year. The Masa multiplier effect is his ability to amplify the state o...
20 Maj 20221h 16min
Patreon Preview – 160. TMK BC3, Ch.8, Dawn of Everything
We dive into chapter 8 – Imaginary Cities – of The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. We talk about the origins of cities and contradict the commonly held belief that proto-state governance—e....
16 Maj 20229min
159. Big Tech Trouble in China
We review China’s hard, fast, and big regulatory responses to big tech’s rising power over the last year, discuss the vastly different political theories motivating tech policy in the US, Europe, and ...
13 Maj 20221h 24min
Patreon Preview – 158. In the Shadow Banks of Silicon Valley (part 2)
We continue our discussion of Hilary Allen’s paper on DeFi and shadow banking and dive into her comparative analysis between Wall Street and Silicon Valley. We see how there are direct analogues betwe...
8 Maj 20229min
157. In the Shadow Banks of Wall Street (part 1)
We discuss an extremely good paper by law professor Hilary J. Allen – DeFI: Shadow Banking 2.0 – which lays out a very clear, critical, and comparative analysis of the unregulated financial instrument...
5 Maj 20221h 4min
