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And joining us is Nick Anthony to talk about my

favorite subject, CBDCs. He's a policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary

and Financial Alternatives, a fellow at the Human Rights Foundation. His research covers a wide

range of topics within the field of monetary and financial economics,

including CBDC's financial privacy crypto and the use of money and society.

He's the author of digital currency or digital control, decoding CBDC and the future of money,

and his works have been published in the Wall Street Journal, Market Watch, Business Insider, among other outlets.

He's testified before Congress and maintains the

HRF CBDC tracker, which documents CBDC development and civil liberties,

liberties concerns around the world. He's also got a substack banking bureau.

Substack.com. Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Nick.

Thank you so much for having me.

Thanks for coming on. I've been following your stuff for a while.

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