01-20-2021, 09:02 PM
The author is co-host of NPR's podcast Planet Money, and the book reads like that - chatty and not technical. That said, it's quite good. He has chapters on the origin of money (this could have been longer I thought), the development (several times) of paper money, the stock market, national banks and the Federal Reserve, the gold standard and the Depression, and cryptocurrency. Much of it I knew pretty much nothing about and it was interesting. Recommended if you want some basic knowledge of any of those subjects. I read it quickly and so will probably forget a lot of it, so I may check it out again to read later.
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