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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Have you ever wondered why there is such a large wealth gap in the US?
Do you know why the middle class is disappearing?
Have you thought about why our financial system is so unstable?
You might be surprised at the answers to these questions. You don't have to look far, because the answers are found in the history of money. Join us this week as we interview money historian, John Sneisen on our show.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
0:04.0 | Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
0:10.0 | Welcome to this week's episode of Money Tree Investing Podcast. |
0:14.0 | My name is Kirk Chisholm and I will be your host today. |
0:17.0 | So today we have another famous guest. |
0:20.0 | We have John Sneyson. |
0:21.5 | How are you doing today, John? |
0:22.7 | I'm a great how about you? |
0:24.1 | I'm a big fan of John's. |
0:25.8 | He's a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the history of money and economics, |
0:29.6 | and I'm really happy to get him on the show today. |
0:32.6 | And John, maybe you can tell the guests a little bit about your background |
0:35.3 | because I'm sure you can speak much better about yourself than I can. |
0:38.2 | As to anybody, I started this journey back in 2008. |
0:42.7 | When I woke up, I read a book actually called Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and that totally eviscerated everything that I believed and understood about governments and money in total. |
0:51.1 | So that really, you know, started the whole trickle into, you know, wanting to |
0:54.7 | understand money and economics because I, like, hitting the wall, it's like, wow, you know, |
0:59.6 | this is not what I thought it was. So I went into, you know, reading a whole bunch of economics, |
1:04.6 | but actually one of the first ones that really, like, inspired me was Mike Malone is investing in |
1:09.5 | gold and silver. A little brief |
1:11.3 | bit about monetary history, you know, what happened throughout history with money and currency |
1:15.1 | and all that. So that really drawn me into that aspect. And of course, I love mathematics |
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