← This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy · Season 1

Is Money Bullshit?

S1 · E7 · 22 Feb 2019 · 43 min

It's the age-old, existential question: What is money, really? Host Kal Penn navigates a modern return to the barter system, the political highs and lows of the gold standard and the "because I said so" logic of fiat currency. Kal also untangles the complexities of cryptocurrency and learns how to survive an economic apocalypse without getting eaten.