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. . . . . . . . Hello, welcome to the rest is history and we are in the heart of Amsterdam aren't we Tom?

Now if you didn't hear our last episode, we are exploring

the history of Amsterdam with Wise. Now, Tom, as you will know, Wise is the international account that is built to save you money

around the world you love that don't you Tom 150 countries do 40 currencies I'm just

one account and as you are always saying to me I mean God on mighty if I had a pound

all the time the number of times you've said

this to me. With WISE, you can spend like a local and Dominic. More importantly, you could

spend like a Dutch capitalist in the golden age of Amsterdam.

So Dominic, at the end of the last episode, we were talking about Amsterdam as simultaneously

this inward looking and this outward looking city.

So this concern with the domestic, with the interior kind of privacy,

while at the same time Amsterdam is really the kind of the great smithy of what will become

European globalization. Expanding trade networks, all the wealth and goods and commodities of the world coming to Amsterdam.

So the people here are, you know, certainly the elites are fabulously rich.

So Amsterdam is absolutely a boom town.

It's the 17th century.

It's a 17th century.

But the Dutch Republic is still at war.

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