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The "What is Money?" Show

WiM035 – Energy, Money, and Philosophy with Alex Epstein

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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

4.8724 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Alex Epstein joins me for a deep conversation about fossil fuels, renewable energy, money, philosophy, history, and more.

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0:00.0

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Nightig as a single source for all your Bitcoin needs. Welcome back guys to the What Is Money

1:25.4

Show. I'm sitting down today with Mr. Alex Epstein, who is the author of a very interesting book called The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

1:37.6

Probably not something you've heard about yet, but I think the arguments he makes in his books are very compelling and very interesting.

1:45.4

So, Alex, welcome to the show.

1:48.1

Hey, thanks for having me.

1:49.7

I was just telling you offline how I tend to go for first principle explorations of topics on my show.

1:59.0

And you were tapping into that topic. And I thought maybe that would be a

2:04.3

great place to start as this idea of first principles and maybe a different way to look at it or

2:12.1

explain it. So clearly we're going to be talking a lot about energy today, which is something very

2:17.0

fundamental to the universe. So maybe we're going to be talking a lot about energy today, which is something very fundamental to the universe.

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