Brendan Greeley
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Thank you.
I've been waiting so long to be the perfect guest.
You did in fact say I was the perfect guest.
I was waiting.
I was hoping.
I'm sitting here.
Just a run of the mill guest.
How embarrassing.
So this book was a rabbit hole.
An editor suggested I write a book about the history of the dollar.
And as you know, as a journalist, when somebody asks you to do something, you just say, yeah, I'll figure that out.
Yeah, I've got a phone.
I can call people.
And I thought I would start it in 1971.
We closed the gold window.
And then I sort of started unraveling the sweater a little bit, pulling on the thread.
And I got to 1913 with the chartering of the Fed.
And then you end up with a problem when you chase the history of the dollar back to 1789 or 1776, which is...
There's this assumption when we talk about money of monetary sovereignty.
This is just the ability.