BREAKDOWN: A (Not Quite) Complete History of Money, Feat. Planet Money’s Jacob Goldstein

One of the hosts of NPR’s legendary “Planet Money” takes us on a whirlwind tour of some of the key moments of money history in the last 1,000 years.

This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com and Nexo.io.

Jacob Goldstein is one of the hosts of NPR’s Planet Money. He is also the author of the new book, “Money: A True Story of a Made Up Thing.” 

In this conversation, he and NLW discuss:

How China invented paper money and then forgot about it for centuriesWhy the invention of the lightbulb was a pivotal money history moment How money market funds set the stage for the Great Financial Crisis Where bitcoin fits in the world that comes next: without cash, without banks and with government printing

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Twitter: twitter.com/jacobgoldstein

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