Broken Money: How Settlement Systems Reshaped Global Finance
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
This analysis examines Broken Money by Lyn Alden as a systems-level analysis of monetary infrastructure, centralized ledgers, and long-term debt dynamics.
The discussion examines:
incentive structures
institutional persistence
debt expansion
reserve currency systems
technological settlement constraints
hidden monetary feedback loops
At a systems level, the episode explores how modern finance evolved from the technological mismatch between the speed of information and the speed of settlement. The analysis connects…
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