2024-09-23
58 分钟Welcome to Macro musings, where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
I am your host, David Beckwourth, a senior research fellow at the Mercator center at George Mason University.
And I'm glad you decided to join us.
Our guest today is Matthew Pinesh.
Matt is the director of intelligence for Sentinel one strategic advisory group and a veteran of the national security world.
Matthew is also the author of several papers on cryptocurrencies and their implications for national security, including a recent one titled great Power, Network Competition, and Bitcoin.
Matthew joins us today to discuss these linkages.
Matthew, welcome to the show.
Thanks for having me.
Well, it's a great time to have someone like you on the show.
There's a lot of crypto issues in the news.
We have a presidential election when one of the candidates claims to be going to be the president for crypto industry.
We also have talks of stablecoins, lots of things happening in that space.
So I'm delighted to have you on.
Matt, you covered this in your work, but you are also a part of a national security world that I'm not very familiar with, and you kind of bridge the gap between those two.
And I think that's our connection.
We've met before, and that connection is because I'm more in the finance world, you're in the national security world, and the linkages between national security and finance come together, and we have become a coin because of that.
Tell us about your career and your journey into that space.
Yeah, I'll give you the abridged version.
So, as an undergrad at Hopkins, I studied physics and philosophy.