WHEN BITCOIN WAS A BUBBLE AT $36-$45,000.00: 2/4: The Money Confusion: How Illiteracy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution by John Tamny (Author)
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🗓️ 18 January 2025
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Money, Tamny argues, is a natural market phenomenon and one that asserts itself even in a world of government-issued paper. While economists and pundits hide behind charts, equations and supercilious commentary about the so-called "money supply," Tamny provides familiar examples from the real-world to expose this mysticism as modern-day phrenology.
He makes plain throughout a book that rejects nearly all conventional wisdom about money that a focus on "money supply" is the surest sign of a thought process hopelessly off course. In truth, trusted money in circulation is a natural consequence of commerce, not the instigator as economists imagine.
That a free market for money has formed in a world of government currencies is what sets the stage for private money as the eventual replacement for government mediums of exchange. Precisely because money facilitates global cooperation on the way to staggering advances in productivity, it's essential that money be trusted as a measure in the same way that the mile, degree and tablespoon are trusted today.
Although academia and policymakers misunderstand money and inflation to a frightening degree, the thinkers, innovators, and risk-takers have forged a better way. The future is here for money; and that future, Tamny explains, is blindingly bright.
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| 1:00.7 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batch with John Tamney, the author of the new book, The Money Confusion, |
| 1:06.9 | how illiteracy about currencies and inflation sets the stage for the crypto revolution. |
| 1:12.6 | We've established that money is for the getting of things. |
| 1:17.5 | Money is the sole use of money, said Adam Smith in the 18th century, is to circulate consumable |
| 1:24.4 | goods. The goods also require attention to the word credit. John, you use the example of Elon Musk |
| 1:33.2 | when he worked in Canada for a bank. He had a vision, a vision of something online, the internet being used |
| 1:42.8 | to exchange values, to buy things, or to bank. And that was the |
| 1:48.8 | genesis of what we now know is PayPal. But the road to PayPal was failure after failure |
| 1:55.7 | because he had to invest, he had to attract investors. |
| 2:01.9 | How did he do it, John? |
| 2:02.7 | What investors? |
| 2:04.1 | Was it the Bank of Canada? |
| 2:06.8 | Was it the Bank of the United States? |
| 2:12.4 | What investors showed up to continually refund Elon Musk's idea? |
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