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154. Fiat History with Niall Ferguson

The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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The Gold Standard and the Great Depression

Inflationism of the 1920s, because Britain hadn't done the same, I think exacerbated the promise for the US. The period after World War II is characterized by an extraordinary boom in the Western developed world that's shared by Japan and later by some other Asian economies. And again, from the Austria perspective, this is things have just been going downhill ever since.

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