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This week on the podcast, I have a special guest.

His name is Campbell Harvey and he is a professor at Duke University School of Business.

He's also the author of a fascinating book, co-author really, of a fascinating book called

DeFi and the Future of Finance.

And if you are at all crypto curious, if you're wondering why Bitcoin is near $60,000, why

NFTs have gone crazy and while lots and lots of banks and financial institutions have been

embracing crypto, well then you're going to find this conversation absolutely fascinating.

Campbell Harvey is a traditional finance professor, or at least that's how he presents to the

outside world studying behavioral finance, the yield curve and recessions and separating

luck and skill and investment decisions.

All this stuff sounds pretty run of the mill, middle of the road sort of stuff.

But then back in 2014, he was crypto curious and started doing some research and ended

up doing a presentation to one of his classes.

And really it had a massive impact on him because at the end of the period he expects the

whole class to get up and leave and spoiler alert, nobody leaves and half the clash rushes

the podium to ask him a bunch of questions about this and he really comes to recognize,

oh so this is striking a chord with students, there's something here I need to spend some

more time and effort going into it.

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