What is money indeed? Well, today's session is going to be 35 or 40 minutes on what you need to

crucially know about macroeconomics, finances, investment and all the rest. This is not investment

advice, but there you go. So I've got Marco Bern here today, a pal of mine in Ireland. He was

founder of Goldcore, Bullion Company, though he's now moved on, so he has no

conflicts of interest. And he's also set up Tara coins with some beautiful Irish merchandise.

But in any case, Mark, great to see you again. Great to see you, Ivor. Thanks for having me on.

Not at all. And we're going to talk kind of money and finances and all that stuff. We might start

off with the kind of lunacy of what's going in the, or going around at the moment in the world of

macroeconomics and finance in general. Yeah, it's, it is lunacy and it's hard to keep up to lunacy.

Hour by hour, it's just, it's, I mean, I've been in the markets for 20 years. I found a

Gold Court 2003 and I used to do a daily market update every single day for nearly 17, 18 years,

you know, and there was a lot of crazy times over the years. You imagine 2008, 2008, 2009, 10,

11, a lot of crazy things. But in recent days, wow, it seems to be, it's escalated the

crazy that it doesn't go that way. And the risk is huge. And we don't seem to be focusing on

the risk that's there, you know, people seem to think that, you know, keep calm, carry on,

keep putting your money into the stock market, the bond market. And all these financial risks

are being completely ignored. They're not being covered in the media, which is unbelievable.

And that the monetary risk, that that's the real risk, because we all, we focus on finance and economics,

we don't realize and look at the money side of it and the monetary side of it.

And what is money?

Because ultimately all these assets that we own are pensions and investments are denominated in what are called fee of currencies, euros, dollars, pounds.

And they are at risk now.

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