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2/4: While the Fed pauses: 2/4: The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution by John Tamny (Author)

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🗓️ 18 June 2023

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2/4: While the Fed pauses: 2/4: The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution by John Tamny (Author)

https://www.amazon.com/Money-Confusion-Illiteracy-Currencies-Revolution/dp/1958682268/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Money, Tamny argues, is a natural market phenomenon and one that asserts itself even in a world of government-issued paper. While economists and pundits hide behind charts, equations and supercilious commentary about the so-called "money supply," Tamny provides familiar examples from the real-world to expose this mysticism as modern-day phrenology.

He makes plain throughout a book that rejects nearly all conventional wisdom about money that a focus on "money supply" is the surest sign of a thought process hopelessly off course. In truth, trusted money in circulation is a natural consequence of commerce, not the instigator as economists imagine.

That a free market for money has formed in a world of government currencies is what sets the stage for private money as the eventual replacement for government mediums of exchange. Precisely because money facilitates global cooperation on the way to staggering advances in productivity, it's essential that money be trusted as a measure in the same way that the mile, degree and tablespoon are trusted today.

Although academia and policymakers misunderstand money and inflation to a frightening degree, the thinkers, innovators, and risk-takers have forged a better way. The future is here for money; and that future, Tamny explains, is blindingly bright

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0:00.0

This is CBS I In The World.

0:07.0

I'm John Batswitch.

0:08.0

John Tammney, the author of the new book, The Money Confusion, how a literacy about currencies

0:13.0

and inflation sets the stage for the crypto revolution.

0:17.0

We've established that money is for the getting of things.

0:22.0

Money is the sole use of money, said Adam Smith, in the 18th century, is to circulate consumable

0:29.0

goods.

0:30.0

The goods also require attention to the word credit.

0:35.0

John, you used the example of Elon Musk when he worked in Canada for a bank.

0:41.7

He had a vision, a vision of something online, the internet being used to exchange values

0:49.2

to buy things or to bank.

0:52.2

And that was the genesis of what we now know as PayPal.

0:56.8

But the road to PayPal was failure after failure because he had to invest, he had to attract

1:03.9

investors.

1:04.9

How did he do it, John?

1:06.5

What investors?

1:07.5

Was it the bank of Canada?

1:08.8

Was it the bank of the United States?

1:11.4

What investors showed up to continually refund Elon Musk's idea?

1:18.7

It's such a great question and no, it couldn't have been banks because banks as a rule can't

1:24.7

take risks.

1:26.8

Banks are lending out money and they are getting paid and interest rate for it.

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