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Aug 2021
27m 3s

Fiat Currency is Having a Midlife Crisis

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This week, Jon Huntley, senior economist at the Penn Wharton Budget Model, came on to discuss the budgetary and economic impact of the infrastructure package. Rune Christensen, the co-founder of MakerDAO, joined to talk DeFi and decentralized stable coins. Zvi Schreiber, the CEO and founder of Freightos, an internet marketplace for the trillion-dollar international freight market, came on to talk about his new book: "Money, Going Out of Style: The Story of Money and Thee Mystery of its Decline" and why he thinks fiat currency is having a midlife crisis. Then John Gerner, the managing director at the consulting group Leisure Business Advisors, reacted to Disney earnings and explained why he was impressed.

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