Why Nations Fail is one of the best books I have read all year. Authors Acemoglu and Robinson insist that “development differences across countries are exclusively due to differences in political and economic institutions, and reject other theories that attribute some of the differences to culture, weather, geography or lack of knowledge about…
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Chatter #203 – Professor James Robinson – Why Nations Fail Part 1: Does Freedom Lead To Prosperity?
Why Nations Fail may be the best book I have read this year, so I was absolutely delighted when both of the authors agreed to speak to me on my podcast! This is the first of these interviews, with Professor James A. Robinson. The main idea that I took from the book was…
The Jist of the Week by Josh Hamilton – Issue #13
Bitcoin surged to an all time high this week, just as the very first Bitcoin ETF was launched and in honor of this momentous occasion (and because they were already booked on my show) I had two guests this week on to talk about crypto currency. The civil war raging within the bitcoin…
DRS And The Infinity Pool – A Meme Come True
Have you ever had a meme come true? The Simpsons became famous for predicting the future with things like Facetime, the budget crunch inherited from President Trump, the God particle, and the NSA snooping on Americans. As the internet has grown and evolved, sites like the Onion and the Babylon Bee have become…
Chatter #202 [Live] – Kurt Wuckert Jr. On El Salvador, Bitcoin Cash, and The Bitcoin Civil War
The civil war raging within the bitcoin community is one that I first came across in my interview with Brad Mills. Kurt Wuckert Jr is a strong advocate for Bitcoin cash and has written extensively in support of BSV, in opposition to many Bitcoin Maximalists like Anthony Pompliano. So I wanted to get…
Chatter #201 [Live] – Ethan Lou On North Korea, Virgil Griffith, and The Ethereum Foundation
It’s no secret that I have been exploring some of the ideas of crypto currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum on this show. North Korea is also a fascinating story to me, I’ve been thinking about it a lot since the string of interviews conducted by North Korean defector Yeon-mi Park. So when this…
