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Inventing Society with Yuval Noah Harari

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The Biggest Economic Question of All, Money Is Just Trust

The big question in the economy is how do you trust strangers? That's the biggest economic question of all, it's trust. Money is not made of gold or paper or anything. Money is just trust. And it's the job of bankers and finance ministers to build trust between people. We rely on people on the other side of the world.

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