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#096 - Dominic Frisby - Gold, Power, And The State: What Honest Money Reveals About Civilisation

Dominic Frisby is a financial writer, broadcaster, and comedian. He is the author of Life After the State, Bitcoin: The Future of Money, and Daylight Robbery: How Tax Shaped Our Past and Will Change Our Future. He writes regularly for MoneyWeek and has performed stand-up comedy in the UK and internationally.

In this episode, we think out loud about the long and revealing history of gold — and what humanity’s relationship with money tells us about power, honesty, and civilisation itself.

We discuss why gold has been desired, hoarded, stolen, regulated, and demonised throughout history; why it…

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