George Packer
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697 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
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currency and potentially of the U.S.
government.
opens up a kind of whole world of conflicts of interest and puts a shadow over the whole thing.
Crypto is not showing itself to be the currency that will liberate mankind from the tyranny of the banking system, which was kind of the original libertarian view of crypto.
PayPal's original vision, founded by Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, was a
a vision of private currency being liberated from the onerous regulations of governments.
And that would allow people who did not have access to reliable banking to have access, including in poor and corrupt countries.
Well, that's the sort of idealistic version.
But it turns out, in practice, it's become much more of a speculator's game and of a money launderer's game.
Right.
And Sachs, I think, said that one of the things the Genius Act would do is to make the dollar the global digital currency.
In other words, if we're moving toward a worldwide digital currency system –
The U.S.
should lead it, should dominate.
The dollar should be the currency of that system and the Genius Act would make it so.
I don't know that we have enough evidence yet to know whether that has played out.
But one thing that we do know is that crypto remains incredibly volatile today.
Well, think of the lineup behind Trump at his second inaugural.
All of the tech CEOs and others who were jockeying to be seated closest to Trump because closeness and proximity means power.
Think of who Trump named to this commission that Sachs now co-chairs since he stepped down as the special advisor, the Commission on Science and Technology.
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