
#132 Phil Armstrong: Greece, The Euro & Getting The Money Story Right
The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly
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What's the Origin of Money?
In mediaeval times, the rulers would say when markets were. And some one said exactly when things can be bought and sold. So they're not natural phenomena, like as suggested by me. Some one somewhere decides on that. You were forbidden to use silver in many cases. If you could just go to the market and spend your coin. Well, where's the king going to get his bullion from? Because obviously the kings were using bullion in their coins,. but there weren't a hundred% this ideaof, you know, like the gold standard wasn't like that.
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