Commodity Culture, Released on 11/24/23

Economist Steve Hanke makes a case for owning gold, including growing political instability, record accumulation of gold by central banks, and a clear move away from the U.S. dollar as the preferred currency of international trade. Steve also explains why free and open societies prosper and how the West is starting to lose its freedom and thus, its economic prosperity.

00:00 Introduction
00:55 Steve Hanke Origin Story
07:49 Why I’m Bullish on Gold
14:41 Thoughts on Silver
17:26 Free and Open Societies Prosper
20:57 Is the West Becoming Less Free?
30:56 Sanctions Against Russian Energy
33:21 Portuguese Green Energy Scandal

Steve Hanke is an American applied economist at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, DC, and co-director of the Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise in Baltimore, Maryland. Hanke is known for his work as a currency reformer in emerging-market countries. He was a senior economist with President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1981 to 1982, and has served as an adviser to heads of state in countries throughout Asia, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He is also known for his work on currency boards, dollarization, hyperinflation, water pricing and demand, benefit-cost analysis, privatization, and other topics in applied economics. Hanke has written extensively as a columnist for Forbes magazine and other publications. He is also a currency and commodity trader.

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