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The "What is Money?" Show

The Century of Central Banking | The Snider Series | Episode 1 (WiM081)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Money, History, Cryptocurrency, Finance, Investing, Breedlove, Bitcoin, Rabbit Hole, Robert Breedlove, What Is Money, Education

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Snider joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the evolution of money and central banking throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome to the What is Money Show. I am thrilled the day to be sitting down with Mr. Jeff Snyder.

0:17.1

Jeff, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, Robert.

0:20.9

I'm excited to get into this stuff.

0:23.6

As am I, you know, I discovered your work on the Eurodollar University, which is a long-form

0:32.5

podcast series on macro voices, where you lay out, you know, the nitty gritty of the Euro dollar

0:39.5

system, how it functions, how it emerged, and how it's changed over time. And so I have to, first

0:45.9

of all, thank you for that because, you know, I knew of the Euro dollar system before your

0:51.5

work, but I didn't realize just how big and complicated and important

0:55.8

it is. And I think I listened to that macrovoices series three times. So really appreciate that.

1:04.1

Yeah. I think it's it's amazing, isn't it, Robert? Because you know, you think about something like

1:08.3

LIBOR, for example. I think most people have heard of LIBOR, but they don't realize what it actually refers to.

1:14.2

It's some kind of money rate.

1:15.4

There's U.S. dollar markets.

1:16.7

And it's really the basic Eurodollar rate.

1:19.4

And it's just, it's one place where you can begin to walk down the rabbit hole into, okay, what's really going on out there?

1:26.1

What is this euro dollar refer to? What is it actually?

1:29.0

Yes. Yeah, as we were just talking offline, a lot of the difficulty in this space is how

1:34.4

obfuscated things are. You know, there's a lot of technical jargon, a lot of different terms.

1:39.5

As you were even saying, different macro thinkers use their own unique terms. So there's a lot of pieces to put together for the outside listener.

1:48.8

So with that in mind, I know we're going to get complicated and in the weeds and all that.

1:54.5

But I want to start very simply, actually, which is the namesake of this show, What is Money?

2:03.0

I've named it that to try and encourage people to be more inquisitive and curious about the

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