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‣ The history of money - Alex Gladstein

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We're in 30 Trillion Dollars in Debt

This allowed the US government to do a lot of things over the last few decades. We're now in 30 trillion dollars in debt and it's because we have this external foreign demand for our debt regardless of our economic performance. This is highly unusual and will be seen as an aberration in history. So today the system is coming under pressure. You know, number one you have foreign governments buying more golds than treasuries. You have countries starting to talk about pricing energy and other currencies. And then I think it's going to be Bitcoin is going to be next.

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