The Gold Standard
Saifedean Ammous
What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production,...
Location:
United States
Description:
What would the twentieth century have looked like on a gold standard? What would have happened to the state without its money printer? What would have happened to prices, wages, living standards, capital markets, politics, energy production, technology, and education? In The Gold Standard, internationally bestselling author Saifedean Ammous answers these questions with a unique alternative history that is one-third history, one-third novel, and one-third economic analysis. In 1911, French aviation pioneer Louis Blériot partners with the Wright brothers to build the Blériot Transport Corporation (BTC)—an airplane-based decentralized peer-to-peer gold-settlement network. Dismissed by economists and the press as a doomed eccentricity, BTC alters world history in 1915 when it offers Europeans the chance to escape central bank war inflation by exporting their wealth to neutral countries. The result is a global financial panic that bankrupts the world’s major central banks and destroys their currencies. The World War comes to an abrupt end, and the fiat money experiment is strangled in its crib. A new world order emerges around a free-market decentralized gold standard, and an entirely different twentieth century unfolds. Hard-money savings make capital plentiful and cheap, accelerating technological progress and increasing energy production. The death of central banking and the rise of a free market in banking force financial institutions to become safer and more responsible. Governments become accountable service providers, while citizens become customers who expect—and receive—better service at a lower cost year after year. Much more unfolds in this gripping, serious, and thought-provoking story written in Ammous’s trademark engaging style. Duration - 14h 1m. Author - Saifedean Ammous. Narrator - Saifedean Ammous. Published Date - Friday, 03 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Saifedean Ammous ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:25
01.02 about the author
Duration:00:01:12
02 introduction
Duration:00:15:52
03 part i the old world
Duration:00:00:11
03.01 the classical gold standard
Duration:00:01:03
03.02 why gold
Duration:00:05:21
03.03 bimetallism and its discontents 1
Duration:00:13:30
03.04 the classical gold standards achilles heel
Duration:00:15:42
04 the great war
Duration:00:01:23
04.01 the blaze of splendor
Duration:00:09:20
04.02 the sleepwalkers
Duration:00:04:45
05 tsargrad
Duration:00:00:55
05.01 wittes golden wisdom
Duration:00:12:04
05.02 dreams of tsargrad
Duration:00:10:47
05.03 izvolskys powder kegs
Duration:00:08:19
05.04 military reality check
Duration:00:06:52
06 bismarcks africa
Duration:00:00:22
06.01 the grandmaster
Duration:00:05:20
06.02 wilhemls folly
Duration:00:07:49
06.03 walking into encirclement
Duration:00:06:19
06.04 monetary war machine
Duration:00:04:08
07 grey finds a reason
Duration:00:00:21
07.01 victorias golden age
Duration:00:02:40
07.02 edwards whirl of amusements
Duration:00:04:23
07.03 greys balancing act
Duration:00:15:55
08 the masterly manipilation
Duration:00:06:11
08.01 the great war bond swindle
Duration:00:06:49
08.02 keynes and the manipulation
Duration:00:04:22
08.03 the silent death of the classical gold standard
Duration:00:06:36
09 the jekyll island cabal
Duration:00:00:23
09.01 monopoly
Duration:00:04:53
09.02 warburgs solution
Duration:00:15:09
09.03 the business of war
Duration:00:03:57
10 viii the century of flight
Duration:00:14:40
11 part ii capital flight
Duration:00:00:23
12 ix bleriot transport corporation 1
Duration:00:00:06
12.01 not your vault not your gold
Duration:00:13:53
12.01 the wright move 1
Duration:00:14:35
12.02 lightning
Duration:00:10:53
13 x capital flight
Duration:00:04:20
13.01 king edward viii
Duration:00:25:37
13.02 tsar michael ii
Duration:00:06:05
13.03 kaiser wilhelm iii
Duration:00:08:40
13.04 president marshall
Duration:00:09:40
13.05 empty trenches
Duration:00:03:11
14 xi the geneva peace conference
Duration:00:12:14
14.01 self determination and secession
Duration:00:08:06
14.02 monetary and trade freedom
Duration:00:18:57
14.03 the masterminds
Duration:00:09:41
14.04 the international committee for self determination
Duration:00:20:59
15 part iii the modern world
Duration:00:00:05
15.01 xii the modern gold standard1
Duration:00:00:05
15.02 freely issued money
Duration:00:18:11
15.02 industrial money
Duration:00:05:41
15.03 hypergoldenization there is no second best
Duration:00:08:19
15.04 the century of savings
Duration:00:07:54
16 xiii modern banking
Duration:00:00:05
16.01 predictable reliability
Duration:00:12:12
16.02 the end of usury
Duration:00:09:29
16.03 time preference interests control knob
Duration:00:05:03
16.04 time preference and civilization
Duration:00:15:14
17 xiv the state in the twentieth century
Duration:00:00:06
17.01 choice not voice
Duration:00:07:17
17.02 corporate government
Duration:00:14:27
17.03 government finance
Duration:00:11:33
17.05 seperation of nation and state
Duration:00:01:12
17.06 war
Duration:00:06:14
17.07 land and citizenship
Duration:00:10:26
18 xv the new world order
Duration:00:05:57
18.01 austria and the balkans
Duration:00:05:26
18.02 russia
Duration:00:15:21
18.03 the ottoman empire
Duration:00:10:43
18.04 britain and ireland
Duration:00:05:55
18.05 germany
Duration:00:01:13
18.06 france
Duration:00:04:05
18.07 spain and portugal
Duration:00:02:22
18.08 italy
Duration:00:06:50
18.09 china
Duration:00:16:08
18.10 india
Duration:00:01:15
18.11 the americas
Duration:00:01:59
18.12 africa
Duration:00:02:13
19 part iv the century of affluence
Duration:00:00:06
19.01 xvi living standards
Duration:00:11:56
19.02 computing
Duration:00:06:09
19.03 energy and power
Duration:00:13:46
19.04 industry
Duration:00:13:28
19.05 land and food
Duration:00:06:05
19.06 the exceptions
Duration:00:03:47
19.07 employment
Duration:00:21:19
19.08 education
Duration:00:10:45
19.09 economics
Duration:00:04:58
20 xvii twentieth century infrastructure
Duration:00:00:06
20.01 the twentieth century city
Duration:00:07:23
20.02 canals
Duration:00:13:48
20.03 bridges
Duration:00:05:10
20.04 desalination
Duration:00:00:37
20.05 artificial islands
Duration:00:02:35
20.06 digital money
Duration:00:05:09
21 xviii twentieth century life
Duration:00:00:32
21.01 snapshop london 1900
Duration:00:04:39
21.02 snapshot london 1930
Duration:00:04:58
21.03 snapshot london 1965
Duration:00:08:15
21.04 snapshot london 2000
Duration:00:08:19
22 part v postscript from fiat word
Duration:00:00:23
23 xix fiat vs gold worlds 1
Duration:00:00:05
23.01 energy
Duration:00:08:47
23.02 housing
Duration:00:04:21
23.03 interest rates
Duration:00:05:43
24 xx missing fiat phenomena
Duration:00:01:18
24.01 unemployment
Duration:00:10:17
24.02 inflation
Duration:00:09:05
24.03 gross domestic product
Duration:00:02:24
24.04 economic depression
Duration:00:02:02
24.05 climate and environmental hysteria
Duration:00:08:44
24.06 fiat food
Duration:00:11:02
24.07 world war ii
Duration:00:02:06
24.08 socialism
Duration:00:03:40
24.09 israel
Duration:00:15:08
25 acknowledgements
Duration:00:03:26
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:34