Published Jun 15, 2023

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Why This Financial Crisis Is WORSE Than 2008 | Balaji Srinivasan

Tom Bilyeu hosts Balaji Srinivasan for an urgent discussion on the looming financial crisis that surpasses 2008, examining the pivotal roles of central banking, China's global influence, political polarization, and the transformative potential of cryptocurrency.

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- Is an economic crash coming?
  Asked by 65 people
- How does China impact the US?
  Asked by 45 people
- What is the impact of interest rates on valuations?
  Asked by 41 people
- Would money printing be a mechanism to prevent U.S. defaults?
  Asked by 37 people
- Is China a geopolitical threat?
  Asked by 34 people
- Tell me about Tom Bilyeu
  Asked by 28 people
- What are some contrarian ideas that Tom Bilyeu believes?
  Asked by 27 people
- What does Tom Bilyeu do differently in his podcast and platforms?
  Asked by 22 people
- What do you think about bitcoin?
  Asked by 16 people
- How was the 2008 financial crisis misdiagnosed?
  Asked by 14 people
- What about the overt default by the U.S. government on its gold bonds in 1933? The United States had in clear and entirely unambiguous terms promised the bondholders to redeem these bonds in gold coin, but then it refused to do so, offering depreciated paper currency instead. The case went ultimately to the Supreme Court, which on a 5-4 vote, upheld the sovereign power of the government to default if it chose to. “As much as I deplore this refusal to fulfill the solemn promise of bonds of the United States,” wrote Justice Harlan Stone, a member of the majority, “the government, through the exercise of its sovereign power…has rendered itself immune from liability,” demonstrating the classic risk of lending to a sovereign. In “American Default,” Sebastian Edwards concludes that it was an “excusable default,” but clearly a default.
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