David McWilliams

None of that.

We're going to talk about the genesis.

Well, that's true.

I mean, most people don't think about money.

When they think about, John, it's like, you know, we're thinking conceptually about money, but most people say, look, I have it, now you feck off.

Or if you don't have it, it's like, how do I make money?

And more importantly, how do I make it easy?

Exactly, exactly.

Now, what we want to talk about today, we're going to talk to Brendan Greeley, a monetary historian, a brilliant, brilliant thinker who's just written a beautiful book about the dollar called The Almighty Dollar.

Now, it is a real tour de force.

It gets quite

technical parts, but it's got brilliant stories with brilliant characters with wonderful episodes from economic history.

But what it's trying to do, it's trying to synthesize the story of money in a way that is comprehensible.

So where does it come from?

How does it start?

Is money sovereign?

Is it part of the state or is it something else?

And again, you know, is it credit?

Is it finance?

Is it trust?