David McWilliams

We're going straight now to the United States to talk to Brendan Greedy.

Now, as a regular listener to the podcast, you will know that I have spent probably the last five years, not just podcasting, but at least three of those years trying to research a book about the story of money, the history of money, follow what you will.

And anybody who's written a book will know that there are some very dark, dark moments when you just look into your research and you think, where the hell is this going?

Can I turn it around?

Is this relevant?

Is this not relevant?

Do I have to throw this stuff away?

Am I lost?

Am I talking absolute shite?

Writing absolute shite.

And then every now and then when I was in those weeds, I used to pick up the phone to our next guest, Brendan Greedy, one of the finances world's best financial correspondent, wonderful monetary economist, has now abandoned scribbling, not abandoned scribbling, but taken a back seat to scribbling, has gone into full-time academia, doing PhDs, all that carry on,

But I am delighted to tell you that Brendan knows so much about money and he has produced his own tome, which is going to be published next week.

It's called The Almighty Dollar.

As you can imagine from the title, it's about the story of the almighty dollar, a currency that is never out of the news these days.

Brendan, how are you?

Great to see you.

a generous for both of us and b led me to speculate that so mark just for before we start on the almighty dollar martin luther's uncle uncles and fathers were speculators and silver mines in what is silesia in germany and they like most speculators won a bit and lost a bit and having lost a bit and having gone bankrupt luther himself

is sitting there thinking, hmm, who is making all the easy money here?

Certainly not my dad and my uncles who are investing and throwing all their capital, other people's capital at silver mines.

It's those guys in the church.