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Guy's Take #62 - Dear Peter Zeihan...
How much economic ignorance can you fit into 1 minute and 54 seconds? Well apparently its quite a lot. Peter Zeihan confidently embarrassed himself o…
3 years, 2 months ago
![Read_690 - Bitcoin is Not a Hedge [Parker Lewis]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740782/c1a-9mg94-jk0o4998tmkn-xtuw37.jpg)
Read_690 - Bitcoin is Not a Hedge [Parker Lewis]
"Bitcoin is not a hedge against inflation; it is the permanent solution to inflation, and those are two very different things." - Parker Lewis Parker…
3 years, 2 months ago
![Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740784/c1a-9mg94-wng9zkk0u1dj-xqvdmo.jpg)
Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi]
"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not money—but credit. If your money …
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740783/c1a-9mg94-60k7d55gcdr-suoxo0.jpg)
Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes]
"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The e…
3 years, 3 months ago
Green Eggs and Ham - Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely di…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740786/c1a-9mg94-njp0wmm9t08-ldrn7n.jpg)
Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL T…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740787/c1a-9mg94-33zvk882t73w-br6okx.jpg)
Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]
"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease i…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740788/c1a-9mg94-row108m0i7w8-0gql09.jpg)
Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]
"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer write…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740789/c1a-9mg94-zo5nzj79t55g-vsl4ja.jpg)
Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]
"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by Ha…
3 years, 3 months ago
![Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]](https://episodes.castos.com/6626b866f2af87-36468692/images/1740790/c1a-9mg94-04r1dgmks8g2-mvzht6.jpg)
Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]
"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid and …
3 years, 3 months ago