Rashad Ahmed is a former Treasury and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency financial economist and is currently an economist at the upstart Andresen Institute for Finance and Economics. In Rashad’s first appearance on the show, he discusses the real-world impacts of the GENIUS Act, what US stablecoin regulation means for the rest of the world, the state of crypto adoption, and much more.
Check out the transcript for this week’s episode, now with links.
Recorded on June 27th, 2025
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - Bumper
00:00:31 - Intro
00:01:44 - Rashad’s Career
00:07:33 - Global State of Crypto
00:23:48 - Stablecoins and Safe Asset Prices
00:40:00 - Sovereign Default Risk and Cryptocurrency Adoption
00:56:51 - Outro
