BREAKDOWN: A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.
This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.
Jacob Goldstein is one of the hosts of NPR’s Planet Money. He is also the author of the new book, “Money: A True Story of a Made Up Thing.”
In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:
- How China invented paper money and then forgot about it for centuries
- Why the invention of the lightbulb was a pivotal money history moment
- How money market funds set the stage for the Great Financial Crisis
- Where bitcoin fits in the world that comes next: without cash, without banks and with government printing
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| 0:49.9 | Surprising to me when I was working on the book was how many times money has changed so much. |
| 0:57.5 | And I think there is this sort of classic myopia that people get about money where they |
| 1:02.9 | assume that whatever is money now, whatever is money in the world where they have been to be |
| 1:08.4 | living is like the natural thing for money to be |
| 1:11.4 | and that anything else would be ridiculous. And again and again, you see that that's wrong and |
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| 1:37.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Tuesday, November 3rd, and today I am thrilled to bring you a conversation with Jacob Goldstein. |
| 1:46.8 | First, however, just a little bit of housekeeping. It is, of course, election day in the United |
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