Omid Malekan (Columbia Business School) on Private Money, Financial Systems, and Crypto in Geopolitics (EP.724)
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This is Wyatt, and on today's episode, I sat down with Omid Malikhan. Omid is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, having previously spent more than a decade in the asset management and finance industry. In 2017, he started to take a deep interest in blockchain technology, and since then, he has become a leading thinker on blockchains, stablecoins, and their relevance to global money and power systems. In our discussion, we touch on the requirements of digital money in today's digital era, the current scale of private money across our economic system, the banking industry's strong
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Brought down by Bad Mortgage Investments, Lehman, which has 25,000 employees, will be liquidated.
The federal government loans American International Group, AIG, $85,000,000,000.
This is a different kind of market, and the Fed is asleep.
The federal government is stepping in to stabilize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two mortgage giants that have been threatened by the housing crisis. The Bank of
England has pumped £75,000,000,000 more into Britain's ailing economy with a new round of quantitative easing.
They print a couple trillion dollars, and all of a sudden, people started to worry. So out of this worry, we have something called the Bitcoin. Bitcoin.
Omid, thank you for joining. Excited. And we're recording this in person, which is fun to sit down with you. My favorite title I think you've garnered among many others is the explainer in chief of blockchains. So I'd love to hear about how you got into the world of blockchain finance and stablecoins generally.
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