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#096 - Dominic Frisby - The Secret History Of Gold: The Best, Worst & Bravest Of Humanity
Dominic Frisby is a financial writer, broadcaster, and comedian. Dominic is the author of Life After the State, Bitcoin: The Future of Money, and Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future. He contributes regularly to financial publications such as Money Week and has performed stand-up comedy both in the UK and internationally.
In this episode, Dominic and I think out loud about the history of gold, humanity's relationship with it, the history of gold rushes, why "gold is honest money and is disliked by dishonest men", why governments & individuals have always and will always want it, how much the British Empire relied on gold, how much British state short-termism cost the country in 2010 when it sold gold at the bottom of the market, why excess government & regulation, the erosion of privacy, and bureaucratic overreach is linked to running economies with fiat currency, why money should be independent of state & government control and much, much more.
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