Daily: The Million Dollar Question - How Does Money Work?

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🗓️ 7 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Money makes the world go round, but how does it actually work? With economies across the globe in flux, understanding cash, currencies and crypto has never been more important. Gavin Jackson, lead writer for the Financial Times, joins Ahir Shah to talk about his new book Money in One Lesson: How it Works and Why, which covers the most important questions about money and how it shapes our societies. “Money is something we all believe in, but we’re not entirely sure why.” “We didn’t start with barter, the first money was actually made out of clay tablets.” “Hyperinflation only happens when a government decides something is more important than stopping hyperinflation.” “Bitcoin is an attempt to opt-out of the banking system we’ve become used to.” “Deflation, when prices fall, is actually a lot worse than inflation as our debts don’t change.” “If you’re interested in people, you should be interested in money. It tells us so much about who we are.” https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Ahir Shah. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold, Jelena Sofronijevic and Alex Rees. Audio production by Jade Bailey. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.6	record this podcast but how does money actually work? That's the question that
1:24.2	Gavin Jackson, leader writer at the Financial Times, seeks to answer in his new book
1:28.8	Money in One Lesson. Gavin's book is a fascinatingly informative and accessible journey through the nature, history and role of money
1:37.2	helping demystify that most mysterious of things.
1:40.4	Gavin, welcome to the bunker.
1:42.4	Thank you very much you're here. So Gavin, I'm going to... of things.
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1:44.0	So Gavin, I'm going to start off by asking you the first question that you seek to answer in your
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