What Happened to Ben Bernanke?

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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Transcript:

OUTLINE
00:00:00 “What is Money” Intro
00:00:08 The Fed: “The Arsonists Proclaiming to be Firefighters”
00:03:33 The Silent Depression
00:08:51 “The Only Chart You’ll Need” & It’s What you Can't See that Matters
00:17:37 Has the Fed Actually Been Pumping Liquidity into the Economy?
00:19:42 Information Asymmetry of The Fed & Policymakers
00:24:44 Is the Illusion Being Fed by the Advancement of Technology?
00:30:20 NYDIG
00:31:28 The Eurodollar System has “Kept the Lights On," but How Does this End?
00:36:53 QE: The Anesthesia of the Economy
00:39:03 Dollar Shortage Shock Repeating Itself from 2008 to March 2020
00:45:52 The Relationship Between the Media & The Fed’s Ongoing Bluff
00:50:13 The “Complexity” of the System Protects the System’s Lies
00:52:27 Bernanke’s Incentives & Preserving the “Status Quo”

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