Today on the Brief: Libra is now “Diem” 
Christine Lagarde comes down on private stablecoins 
Dow closes its best month in 33 years 
Our main discussion: AllianceBernstein changes its mind.  Yesterday, CoinDesk received access to a private client research report from AllianceBernstein, a global investment giant with more than $631 billion in assets. 
In this episode of the Breakdown, NLW reads excerpts from the memo and discusses:
Why, in discussing supply, it conflates bitcoin and other cryptos but still finds limited supply “for all practical purposes” 
Why prevailing macro political conditions – particularly the growth of government’s role in business and individual lives – shifted the investment firm’s calculus 
Why its greatest long-term concern is government banning something that is actively hindering the application of monetary policy

Today on the Brief: Libra is now “Diem”  Christine Lagarde comes down on private stablecoins  Dow closes its best month in 33 years  Our main discussion: AllianceBernstein changes its mind. 

Yesterday, CoinDesk received access to a private client research report from AllianceBernstein, a global investment giant with more than $631 billion in assets. 

In this episode of the Breakdown, NLW reads excerpts from the memo and discusses:

Why, in discussing supply, it conflates bitcoin and other cryptos but still finds limited supply “for all practical purposes”  Why prevailing macro political conditions – particularly the growth of government’s role in business and individual lives – shifted the investment firm’s calculus  Why its greatest long-term concern is government banning something that is actively hindering the application of monetary policy