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Peak Prosperity

CBDCs, Control, and Crumbling Fiat Currencies (Part 1)

Peak Prosperity

Chris Martenson

Government, Investing, Business

4.7591 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Guest Aaron Day discusses how our debt-based currency system works and the path to CBDCs.

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0:00.0

The following is the audio version of a video released at peak prosperity.com.

0:05.3

Visit peakprosperity.com to watch the video and to find other insightful content,

0:10.1

such as articles, discussion forums, and exclusive subscriber-only content.

0:17.7

Hello, everyone, and welcome to this episode of The Signal Hour.

0:21.4

I'm your host, Dr. Chris Martins, in a very special episode today.

0:24.6

Look, with a recent signature of the Genius Act into law, we need to talk about digital currencies, you know, stable coins, whatever that means.

0:32.7

And it's going to extend more into this whole new digital world that we're heading into.

0:39.3

I think we have to have eyes wide open. Full disclosure, I don't know anything about this technology.

0:45.5

I see it, but I've never coded a coin. I don't actually know what a token actually is. I don't even

0:51.8

know how these things really actually work. Now, how much privacy

0:55.9

can they really be affording to us or even how much will we no longer have any privacy at all?

1:02.2

These are all questions we're going to be talking about with a true expert, Aaron Day, a good

1:07.4

friend, great individual to talk to about these things, very knowledgeable because, well, he knows a lot. So, Aaron, welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. Good to see you again. Well, and I'm, oh, yeah, and I'm looking forward to seeing you at our summit again this year. You'd get a great, very highly well-received presentation there, and you'll be back again this year. so looking forward to that so where do we start in this conversation i know you have a beautiful big long

1:30.6

presentation you take there and you'll be back again this year. So looking forward to that. So where do we start

1:28.3

in this conversation? I know you have a beautiful, big, long presentation you take people through.

1:32.3

Where do you usually start in this conversation? I guess probably the best place to start

1:38.7

as things are moving very quickly is to start by just explaining to people how our money system currently works

1:47.0

so that it'll make it more understandable what the risks are with what's going on with stable

1:54.5

coins and CBDCs and all of that is to get a good foundation of how the money system

1:59.6

currently operates because a lot of people are looking at the future and worried about a future where we have digital financial surveillance, not understanding that we already have digital financial surveillance.

2:14.6

So as an example, the way money works is our money is essentially 96% digital right now.

2:21.3

And in fact, the way money is created is the government issues an IOU to the Federal Reserve.

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