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Dec 2020
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SLP235 Niall Ferguson Bitcoin & Monetary...

STEPHAN LIVERA
About this episode

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He’s also author of 15 books, including The Ascent of Money. Niall and I chat:

  • Bitcoin as a store of value
  • The pandemic and impacts on how we use money
  • Debt around the world and in history
  • What’s in our financial future

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