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Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Check Your Financial Privilege

Only about a billion people live in societies where their government has a currency that's strong enough to buy stuff. The US is the key example of this, we live in the world's first debt empire. We're talking pre-2022 here, pre-the Putin invasion of Ukraine,. which has changed a lot of things and set some things in motion.

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