Long Take: What 1840s "Free Banking" and the 1910s Cubist movement suggests about DeFi and economic machine evolution

Hi Fintech futurists --

There are a few bread and butter topics we could cover this week, but will push to the Short Takes instead. They are large and interesting, but not profound. Those include: (1) Goldman’s Marcus becoming a $100 billion deposit neobank, after a few billion in spend, (2) the SPAC boom surging ahead with a new ETF backed by Morgan Cr…