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The "What is Money?" Show

Uncovering the Truth of the 2008 GFC | The Snider Series | Episode 4 (WiM097)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 58 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.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, welcome back.

0:09.7

It's the What is Money Show?

0:11.8

I am sitting down again today with Mr. Jeff Snyder, who is an expert in the Euro

0:17.9

dollar system and global macroeconomics and central banking more generally.

0:24.0

And we're continuing our, basically, we're walking our way through history.

0:29.4

We've come through the 20th century.

0:31.4

Now we're into the early 21st century.

0:35.1

And we want to talk about the great financial crash of 2008, also known as the

0:40.7

GFC of 2008, today. And traditionally, the conventional wisdom is that this was strictly

0:49.0

a subprime mortgage market catastrophe. But as you've done excellent work in this area, Jeff,

0:58.0

and shedding light on the truth, it seems like it has a lot more to do with the Eurodollar system

1:04.0

more broadly. And I know there's a lot of elements to this. So where do you think we should

1:10.3

start to pull back the layers? Yeah, well, I mean, it's a lot of elements to this. So where do you think we should start to pull back the layers?

1:13.1

Yeah. Well, I mean, it's a very complex topic, Robert. I mean, as we've been spending hour upon hour going through, there's a lot to the monetary system, bank evolution, money evolution in the decades preceding it.

1:26.0

So you can imagine how there's a lot to it when it all starts to break down in 2007 and

1:30.5

2008.

1:31.7

But you can understand from most people, you know, the public perspective, you know, what they

1:36.5

knew of that era before the, you know, 2008 crash was the housing bubble, right?

1:40.5

The U.S. went into a typical housing bubble.

1:43.3

And therefore, you know, ninja loans,

1:45.6

all sorts of, you know, ridiculously insane mortgage products. It kind of sounded like this subprime

1:52.2

mortgage thing is a plausible explanation for what happened. You know, the market got way ahead of

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