The Great Monetary Inflation & the Future of Digital Money | Michael Casey

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Business, Government

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 136 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with CoinDesk Chief Content Officer Michael Casey about "The Great Monetary Inflation" and the future of digital money. The two chronicle the financialization of the global economy that occured between the end of gold convertibility in 1971 and the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. They discuss how the period of the 1970's weighed heavily on the American zeitgeist and the political transformation that occurred between the start of the Iran hostage crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. The episode culminates in a conversation about the political and monetary forces that have been unleashed in response to the spread of COVID-19 and their implications for the future of capitalism and liberal democracy.

For those interested in attending the Consensus 2020 conference, you can find more information at https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2020. You can also sign up for Michael's weekly email newsletter, Money Reimagined, as well as other CoinDesk newsletters at https://www.coindesk.com/newsletters.

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Hidden Forces is made possible by listeners like you.
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0:21.5	Each review helps more people find the show and join our
0:24.9	amazing community. And with that, please enjoy this week's episode. And the What's up everybody? I recorded an episode recently with Nick Carter where I didn't have a rundown or prepare for it in any way and all of you really loved it and I said that I would try and record more conversations like it and this episode is very much in that
1:04.2	vein. For SuperNurd subscribers there is a rundown available but it's the rundown for my episode with
1:10.8	David Allen which I thought I recorded this morning, but what actually happened
1:16.0	was that my end of the audio was totally corrupted and unusable, not a pleasant experience, I don't recommend it, but David was super cool about it, and we're going to find another date to re-record it.
1:28.2	So in place of that episode, I'm releasing this two hour long conversation with Chief Content Officer at
1:36.0	Coin Desk and former Wall Street Journal senior columnist Michael Casey
1:40.3	which was originally supposed to go out on the premium subscriber feed this morning and
1:45.2	which I recorded late Thursday evening.
1:48.9	Many of you already know Michael.
1:50.9	Besides his role at Coin Desk, he's also a co-founder of Stream Bed Media, the co-author of The Truth Machine, and one of the main organizers of Consensus 2020, which is the biggest blockchain conference with over 10,000 attendees and more
2:06.4	than 300 speakers.
2:08.6	This episode publishes on the first day of the conference, which lasts through the end of the week.
2:15.0	As you can imagine, pulling off a conference during a mass quarantine isn't easy,
2:20.0	but somehow, Michael and the team at Coindesk managed to do it.
2:23.7	The conference is all virtual, it's free, and they've got some big names.
2:27.5	People like former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, historian Nile Ferguson,
2:32.4	Ethereum founder, Vitalic Buter. Larry Summers, historian Nyle Ferguson,
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