Marty Bent on the Macro Fires on the Horizon

From a trade war tweeting president to protests in Hong Kong, 2019 saw global instability (and in turn, the raison d’etre for bitcoin) increase.

By Nathaniel Whittemore

Dec 26, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. UTC

Updated Sep 13, 2021 at 11:53 a.m. UTC

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Marty Bent is the author of one of the most popular daily bitcoin newsletters and host of "Tales From the Crypt."

In this end-of-year interview with The Breakdown, he talks about the macro context - from trade wars to pressure on the fed to continue and expand the QE experiment to global instability - and how it is painting in stark colors the need for tools like bitcoin.

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