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Great show.

Eye opening interview by Ezra Klein with Yoram Hozony, who is a political theorist advocating National Conservatism. JD Vance has attended his his conference for years.

Sound? Most would not call it a sound monetary policy or sound money. You can start your own crypto now or mine or own coin if you want. And it will end the same way as it did in the 1830's when banks could issue their own currencies.

After WWII, the US Dollar became the reserve currency of the world backed by gold (this is called the Bretton Woods system) with fixed exchange rates. This worked well and led to a strong dollar initially. The issue is that over time, other countries started asking to exchange dollars for gold...

Do you know why we went off of gold backed currency?

Hydration status: suspect

The internet tends to amplify extremes, so it is not that surprising that is happening. It is a big leap, but there are plenty of prose examples of blatant racism in our culture and administration, so it is understandable that some people (some may be targets) getting way too oversensitive when...

Thanks for the info. I can see where some of the folks who are upset are coming from, but I don't think that was the intention. A bad dad joke is definitely what this is.

Thanks for the info. Sounds pretty silly and is likely only an outrage on a small part of the internet.

I still don't know what the hullabaloo is about. Can someone enlighten me?

He just spelled it how he says it.

Agreed and not everything in society should be profit seeking.

One pedo protecting other pedos.