Oddbean new post about login | logout Back in February I gave a Broken Money book talk at Princeton. I put more prep into that presentation than any other I've done, since I often do firesides or panels and so forth. Eight months later it's still my go-to reference if someone wants the gist of the book. It recently crossed 100k views on Youtube. https://youtu.be/soGXgiGoMRU
Congrats Lyn! 👏
I've not seen the YouTube video but I've certainly read the book. The sad indictment on modern society is, that this video only has 100k views.
Currently enrolled in uni and studying finance at the moment. Will definitely watch. We have an elective called FinTech: Blockchain in the New Economy too.
During this talk, I dunked on Egypt's currency as my primary negative example of Broken Money multiple times. And then during the Q&A, since this was Princeton, one audience member of course was like, "yeah, I was the former minister of finance in Egypt." Imagine a movie where the main character is like, "freeze frame, rewind, how did we get here?" That was kind of my thought at the moment. But he was cool. He ran finance for a two-year period during a benign environment. He wasn't the source of the issue, fully understood the issue of course, he asked good questions, and we talked afterward. But it was still one of my favorite "holy shit" moments in presentation history. nostr:note17jka2z9fax49sjmqvsaghywa2z88s2dl5g2j03amanrmssgy3cysqv68dm
Amazing that they let you on campus with this as your topic. Princeton is a prime hatchery for the breakers of money, i.e. central bankers