IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:
00:51 - What gave Saifedean the idea for the new book.
04:15 - What are the four key elements of how the Fiat system works?
10:38 - What surprised Saifedean the most about what value fiat brings to the existing economy.
15:39 - Inflation is a vector - what does that mean?
24:27 - How has fiat corrupted the existing incenti ... Show More
Yesterday
TIP848: Meta (META): What the Market Misses? w/ Daniel Mahncke & Shawn O'Malley
Daniel Mahncke and Shawn O’Malley revisit Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META), the advertising machine behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp that reaches 3.6 billion people every day — over 40% of the world’s population — and just grew ad revenue 27% to a nearly $240 billion annual ... Show More
1h 26m
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1h 48m
Sep 17
TIP847: Alphabet (GOOGL): The Megacap That Still Might Be Underrated w/ Kyle Grieve & Shawn O’Malley
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1h 19m
Mar 2021
42. The Fiat Standard, Chapters 4-7
<p>In this seminar we discuss chapters 4 to 7 from my book The Fiat Standard, the forthcoming sequel to The Bitcoin Standard, available to subscribers on <a href='http://saifedean.com/'>saifedean.com</a>. How does the fiat standard work internationally? We look at how mining fiat ... Show More
42m 45s
Dec 2022
148. The Fiat Standard course final lecture: Can bitcoin & fiat coexist
<p>This episode contains most of the final lecture of The Fiat Standard online course, which just concluded, based on the last chapter of The Fiat Standard. After having studied the bitcoin and fiat monetary systems extensively in The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard, Saife ... Show More
1h 32m
Nov 2021
203. The Immaculate Conception: Bitcoin vs Fiat Standard | Dr. Saifedean Ammous
This episode was recorded on September 8th 2021.
Saifedean Ammous is an expert on Bitcoin with a PhD from Columbia University. He joins Dr. Peterson to discuss decentralization, different schools of economics, the Fiat vs. Bitcoin standards, and much more.
Dr. Ammous is the aut ... Show More
2h 8m
Sep 2022
130. The Fiat Standard: Unwritten Chapters
<p>In this seminar, Saifedean discusses ideas for potential chapters he considered for, but did not end up including in The Fiat Standard. The analytical framework of the book, examining the impact of fiat money through the destruction of savings, raising time preference, & a ... Show More
32m 33s