An influx of payouts during the pandemic contributed to the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, says Bloomberg Opinion’s Robert Burgess.
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What do pandemic stimulus funds have to do with the recent collapse of crypto prices and entities like FTX?
According to Bloomberg Opinion writer Robert Burgess, the answer is basically everything.
As he wrote in a recent column, “When historians look back on the spectacular rise and collapse of the cryptocurrency market, they will conclude that it couldn’t have happened without the pandemic.
And they’d be right. This isn’t as controversial an opinion as it might seem. Burgess joins this episode.
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