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Elastic Currency
Ishina Jafari: The market is a forum that's of free exchange, sorting out those errors and biases. He says an inelastic currency leads to the worst kinds of problems because we don't live in an ideal world. " elastic currency is sort of like am insurance against in elastic currency," he says.
Jeff Snider joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the evolution of money and central banking throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
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PODCAST
Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/
Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400
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Transcript:
OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro
00:00:08 The Obfuscation of the Eurodollar System
00:01:49 “Money Is Not Wealth”
00:04:21 Money as a “Call Option” on Wealth
00:08:00 The Infinite Elasticity of Fiat Currency
00:15:00 Capitalism's Great Secret
00:19:20 Stock to Flow: The Fed Edition
00:25:20 Inherent Flaws of Humanity
00:32:09 The Elasticity of the Money Supply
00:34:04 Banks: The Great Intermediary of Money & Commerce
00:36:25 NYDIG
00:37:31 The Creature from Jekyll Island
00:39:45 Fractional Reserve Leverage of 1917
00:42:50 The Pre-Greenspan Put
00:47:17 Every Generation Thinks they Invented Sex
00:52:17 What do you do once you're Captured by Inflation?
00:59:32 Gravitation towards Authoritarianism in Trying Times
01:04:26 The Influence of the Flow of Gold
01:08:08 Bretton Woods & the U.S. Dollar Standard
01:14:05 Triffin Paradox, Bretton Woods Default & the Eurodollar Derivative
01:23:47 Benign Neglect
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