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Demystifying the Petrodollar Scheme with Alex Gladstein (WiM082)

The "What is Money?" Show

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A True Gold Standard Would Have Simplified the First World War?

Aims to put forward a peace theory based on the fact that bick coin is such an improvement over gold in many different areas, including it's really hard to demonatize. The average American vote might have no idea how many wars we've been involved in but they're even more likely to be war-torn than other countries. And i guess my point is that if it remains possible to relatively easily self custody, and if most of the biins held by people and not by governmentsand confiscation becomes really hard, and people practise self custody, we can willed this into existence,. like when we can have a society, or a global society, where war is prohibitive,

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