The Hundred Year Pivot Ep. 7 – Edward Chancellor

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Grant Williams

Investing, Business:investing, Business

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In the seventh episode of The Hundred Year Pivot, Demetri Kofinas and I are joined by renowned financial historian Edward Chancellor for a sweeping conversation on the century-long evolution of money and interest rates. Our discussion traces the abandonment of gold-backed currency, the rise of fiat money, and the resulting waves of speculation, monetary intervention, and economic distortion. Eddie examines how decades of artificially low rates fueled bubbles and imbalances that are now unwinding, reshaping industries from real estate to renewable energy. Together, we explore the political and societal consequences of ‘mispriced’ money, mounting deficits, and wealth inequality—and consider whether the world is nearing a return to sounder forms of money, albeit through a turbulent and uncertain path. Every episode of the Grant Williams podcast, including This Week In Doom, The End Game, The Super Terrific Happy Hour, The Narrative Game, Kaos Theory, Shifts Happen and The Hundred Year Pivot, is available to Copper, Silver and Gold Tier subscribers at my website www.Grant-Williams.com. Copper Tier subscribers get access to all podcasts, while members of the Silver Tier get both the podcasts and my monthly newsletter, Things That Make You Go Hmmm… Gold Tier subscribers have access to my new series of in-depth video conversations, About Time.

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0:00.0	Before we get going, here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed should be considered as investment advice.
0:16.5	This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.
0:20.6	So, while we hope you find it both informative and entertaining,
0:24.2	please do your own research or speak to a financial advisor
0:27.2	before putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets.
0:30.8	And now, on with the show.
0:32.3	Thank you. Welcome, everybody to another edition of the 100-year pivot.
0:45.1	We're back.
0:45.9	And when I say we, I'm joined, of course, by my co-host, the fantastic Dimitri Capinas.
0:51.0	Hello, my friend.
0:51.6	How are you?
0:52.7	I'm doing fantastic.
1:12.6	How are you, Grant? Adaboy, I'm very, very well. We've both been away. You to Italy and me to your homeland of Greece. Oh, that's right. You were in Greece. Where were you in Greece? Are you able to share that with us? Up in the northern part of Greece. Northern part. Skopoulos and Skiatos and... Oh, right, the Sporades Island chain.
1:13.0	Beautiful.
1:13.9	Yeah, beautiful. I went on a sailing trip on those islands once.
1:17.2	Back when I was actually willing to be involved in the actual process of sailing, I'm no longer
1:22.0	interested in going on a vacation that requires you to do any work.
1:24.9	But it was me and seven other friends, and we did the whole chain from Skiathos to Scopelos to Alonisos, and then we went to the fourth Barron Island. You say it. There was a fourth Barron Island that we moored off of, and we found a fisherman who sold us some lobsters. Was that Palladija?
1:45.9	I mean, was that what it was called?
1:47.1	I don't remember it being called that.
1:47.9	I remember it being called.
1:50.7	Like, we were, I think we called it like Hedgehog Island or something.
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