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FTX and the Fall of Cryptocurrency with Robert Hockett

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The New York Bed and the Contrarian Thinking Department

After the crash of o8 one of the things that the new york bed as an institution did was to ask itself what went wrong. The New York Fed decided there was too much groupthink around them and they needed a contrarian thinking department in order to guard against it. They hired Bob Cevallos, who had worked at theNew York Fed before he came up with his eminent domain plan for underwater mortgage loans. He says i got my 15 minutes of fame so to speak where the wall street journal attacked me by name two days in one week on its op-ed page. It might provide a partial model or the germ of a model for what we can do going forward.

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