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The "What is Money?" Show

You’ve Been Lied to About the History of Money w/ Richard Werner (WiM576)

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

🗓️ 25 April 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Richard Werner joins me to explore what money really is, how the Federal Reserve infiltrated academia, how central banks have shaped modern economics, why money does not originate from government, the rise of gold and fractional reserve banking, the history of monetary conquest and credit cycles, the bursting of the Japanese real estate bubble, and the moral hazards of central banking. Richard Andreas Werner is a German banking and development economist who is a university professor at University of Winchester.

Transcript

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0:00.0

History has to be rewritten with the understanding of who is creating the money supply and who's buying those politicians.

0:06.7

Otherwise, historians just study the frontmen.

0:11.0

Caesar, here's Napoleon, here's Adolf Hitler, you know, whatever.

0:14.7

Why are they in power who's funded their rise?

0:17.4

Follow the money and you find out.

0:21.6

It was extraordinary, you know, the little you find out. It was extraordinary.

0:22.6

The little plot of real estate in central Tokyo had the same market value as the entire state of California.

0:29.6

Central banking being like the arsonist pretending to be the firefighter.

0:33.6

They create this catastrophe, and then they come in and say, here's the way to clean it up.

0:37.9

And of course, the way to clean it up completely favors further centralization of their power and

0:41.6

control. It was the Bank of Japan. It was the window guidance and the key guys at the Bank of

0:48.2

Japan deciding this. He's been selected as future governor. He'll be governor of the Bank of Japan.

1:00.0

These princes were selected so early on, this is how you run a cartel, this is how you run organized crime. It's about loyalty.

1:02.0

So this is kind of the same reasons we have dead presidents on United States dollar bills.

1:08.0

There's still this imprinting of political credibility onto financial instruments today.

1:14.6

If you are in a certain field and then the sort of fundamental issues remain obscure, that definitely is a red flag.

1:23.6

The Federal Reserve is supposed to be the expert in this question. Their official view is, we don't know what money is.

1:31.3

It's a great pleasure.

1:38.3

Thank you for making the trip all the way here to Miami from, I think you flew in from

1:45.3

Budapest, you said last night.

1:47.0

It's a great pleasure.

1:48.0

Yeah.

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