Podcasts: Ben Prentice: The History of Central Banking & Inflation 🔗 3 years ago

In this wide-ranging conversation with the co-founder of the website, blog and meme WTF Happened in 1971? Ben Prentice and Cedric discuss:

- The history of coin clipping

- What the temptation to money printing must be like

- Is their a 500 year Central Banking cabal

- The history of bank holidays and the suspension of the redemption of specie

- What is the most scary thing to people in power

- Central Banking monetary colonialism and the next 100 years

- What is the biggest problem with inflation

- How do Central Banks compete with each other

- The future of CBDCs

- Do we need UBI or not

- Ben's Bitcoin and Austrian economics rabbit hole story

- How the meme WTF Happened in 1971? was born

- How Julian Assange was the body cam to the whole world

- And so much more