Episodes

  • 293. The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis
    Sep 30 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 12: Fiat Cost-Benefit Analysis calculates the minor benefits of fiat & compares them to its massive destructive effects: wealth erosion, distorted markets, political power grabs, endless wars, societal decay & more.

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    33 mins
  • 292. The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States
    Sep 23 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 11: Fiat States shows how fiat exports inflation via reserve currencies, swaps market discipline for IMF/World Bank debt traps, bailouts & central planning, limits capital flow, increases poverty & turns development into a misery industry.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels
    Sep 16 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels shows how fiat distorts energy markets replacing reliable hydrocarbons with subsidized unreliable expensive fiat fuels, rewards climate hysteria over engineering imperatives, increases poverty & compromises human flourishing.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • 290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science
    Sep 9 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science shows how fiat centralizes education and research funding, removes real market feedback, produces meaningless research papers, politicizes science, entraps students in massive debt, and rewards hysteria over truth.

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • 289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food
    Sep 2 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food explains how fiat destroyed modern food, as governments optimize farming policy & nutritional guidelines to mask inflation, industrial sludge replaces meat & animal fats, cheap crops are subsidized, and soil & health suffer.

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    51 mins
  • 288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life
    Aug 26 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard money, restores savings, long-term vision, and civilization.

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    50 mins
  • 287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?
    Aug 19 2025

    Fiat's superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time.

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    54 mins
  • 286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery
    Aug 12 2025

    The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’s precise, irrevocable private-key control.

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    50 mins