Retail investors who piled into Michael Saylor’s grand Bitcoin experiment are paying a heavy price. Strategy Inc. — the company once hailed for wrapping crypto exposure into a public stock — is scrambling to calm markets after its shares plunged more than 60% from recent highs, amid a sweeping digital-currency rout. On Monday, Strategy said it had created a $1.4 billion reserve to fund dividend and interest payments, hoping to calm fears that it may be forced to sell Bitcoin if prices fall further.
Today’s guests: Grace Peters, JPM Private Bank, Co-Head of Global Investment Strategy; Dan Wang, Author "Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future"
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Chapters:
00:00:00 – The Pulse with Francine Lacqua 12/2/2025
00:00:36 – Crypto downturn wipes out almost $1 billion in levered bets
00:02:55 – Grace Peters. JPMorgan Private Bank
00:05:37 – Peters: US unemployment rate May rise to 4.5%
00:09:31 – Japanese Bond Slide Spills Over to US, Global Debt
00:13:34 – Witcoff to meet Putin in Moscow today
00:16:26 – Third Russia-linked tanker explodes at sea
00:18:16 – UK OBR head quits after early UK budget release
00:24:16 – Exclusive: Lin Chia-Iung, Taiwanese Foreign Affairs minister
00:28:45 – Dan Wang, “Breakneck: China’s Quest To Engineer the Future” author & Hoover Institution Research Fellow
00:35:27 – Global AI sector locked in two-horse race
00:40:36 – AirAsia CEO on Airbus Software glitch
00:45:06 – Airbus to inspect hundreds of A320 jets
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