Fiat Currency and Centralized Society
I join Rethinking the Dollar to discuss how fiat currency systems centralize society, weaken savers, expand state power, and make gold and real assets more important.
I join Rethinking the Dollar to discuss how fiat currency systems centralize society, weaken savers, expand state power, and make gold and real assets more important.
I join Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss India’s tax raids, demonetization, the country’s move toward a police state, and a unique arbitrage opportunity for investors.
I join Adam Meister of BitcoinMeister to discuss Bitcoin, India, money, gold, and why weak institutions and government controls push people toward alternatives to paper currency.
I join Cory Fleck of the Korelin Economic Report to discuss India’s ongoing currency crisis, demonetization, and the deeper institutional problems exposed by the cash ban.
I write for Acting Man about India’s claim to be the world’s fastest-growing large economy and why the optimistic growth narrative fails under closer scrutiny.
I speak with Brian Leni of Junior Stock Review about India’s currency ban and the deeper cultural, institutional, and political problems exposed by demonetization.
I write for Acting Man about India’s continuing descent after demonetization and why the currency ban has exposed deeper cultural, institutional, and political problems.
I join Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss India’s demonetization, fake news, propaganda, and why the currency ban exposed deeper cultural and institutional problems.
I join the Financial Repression Authority and Alasdair Macleod to discuss India’s war on cash, Trump, China, gold, and the fragility of fiat currency systems.
In this discussion with Financial Repression Authority, I give an update on India’s demonetization and explain how the war on cash is damaging India’s informal economy, increasing corruption, and expanding arbitrary state power.