The view of what's wrong with money looks a lot different if yeu're in a country that really has no true monetary sovereignty. The problem withtot politics is it's shaped by a small group of countries in the global north with very predictable interests, and you're at the losing end of that. So they are involved in an attempt a kind of change the politiics that inhere, in the global political system. But what they encounter is a denial of that politics. Is a kind of agent in the form of the i m f,. that claims to not be political, not be involved in any of these kind of political struggle and tensions that shape the post breten
Episode two of our two-part series on cryptocurrency: political theorist Stefan Eich on how crypto fits into Hayek's old neoliberal dream of private money and why that vision emerged in a new form in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.
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