Episode Details

Brendan Greeley has spent twenty years as a journalist, covering economic and monetary policy. He was the US economics editor at the Financial Times and continues to write a regular column there. Before that, he was a staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek and The Economist, as well as an anchor and correspondent for Bloomberg TV. He has also written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal Europe, and received a New York Press Club Award for special event reporting. Brendan graduated from Tulane University with honours in German. He is currently completing a PhD in financial history at Princeton University. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. The "Ancient Dollar's" Bohemian Roots
2. Skepticism of Monetary Sovereignty
3. The Constitutional Shift to Private Banking
4. Nationalising Money via the Civil War
5. The Primacy of Federal Deposit Insurance
6. Endogenous Money: How Banks Create the Dollar