Stephan ike is a professor of government at georgetown university and the author of the forthcoming book, the currency of politics. Vinge: How predatory is that inclusion lik who actually loses in the end? Is this simply a speculativea gambling process through which hetch funds somehow, you know, diversify their exposure? Or are the actually substantial number of people who are very, very exposed to financial risks that they either don't understand or don't control? That's a very different question.
Episode two of our two-part series on cryptocurrency: political theorist Stefan Eich on how crypto fits into Hayek's old neoliberal dream of private money and why that vision emerged in a new form in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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