• "To explore is to become aware of the possibility of, to be on a search, to be on to something—and not to be on to something is to be in despair." - David Brooks [00:04:12]

• "If you view your brain and body and behavior with a robust appreciation of the fact that you were built to move, and if you let that simple fact slip in, then I am willing to…

"the Liberty Loan program was basically the genesis moment for the mightiest biggest baddest financial market on the planet The US Treasury market" - Robin Wigglesworth [00:00:00]

"it might be that Americans do not understand or know little about bonds, but we will tell them" - William McAdoo (quoted by Robin Wigglesworth)…

• "The idea that Western powers simply sat down with a map, drew arbitrary lines, and single-handedly created the modern Middle East is a persistent myth that completely ignores the agency of local leaders, empires, and indigenous peoples." - Simon Sebag Montefiore [00:08:15]

• "You cannot understand the current posture of Iran or Russia without…

"Instead of having rulers you have rules, and instead of having coercion you try to foster cooperation, and where instead of having hierarchies you have equality." - Jonathan Rauch [00:02:13]

"It is literally true that any given morning our global world of science produces more new knowledge than humanity did in its first 200,000 years." -…

• "The idea is: okay, what do you think history is? Well, there's different ways of thinking about history... but a very powerful brand of thinking about history, indelibly associated with the name of Hegel... is that history is, if you like, the working through of a problem, and namely it's about the question of freedom and how it works its way out into human institutions." - Adam Tooze…

• "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." - William Jennings Bryan [00:00:17]

• "Today on the Story of Money, a seemingly innocuous monetary reform that inflamed American politics for a whole generation, and its unanticipated consequences were so disastrous and caused…

"Often it seems like politics is chaotic and without direction... what is going on politically is driven by philosophy." - Dr. Stephen Hicks [00:00:11]

"By the time we get to 1793... it is bad times. The revolution is going horribly. It is a cataclysm, and it is one of the great examples of how not to do politics and cultural change in the modern…

Quotes

• "From then on he called it job day and he celebrated it every single year for the rest of his life that first job paid just 50 cents a day... he would later say that's where it all started with a 10-cent notebook" - Shane Parrish [00:00:42]

• "I cheat my boys every chance I get... I want to make them sharp i trade with the boys and I just…

• "By that definition, the notion that Taiwan stole the US semiconductor industry is completely wrong—completely 100% wrong—because it is actually the outcome of a collective decision-making and collective benefits that created this ecosystem between the US and Taiwan after 40 to 45 years of efforts." - Dr. Roy Lee [00:06:11]

• "Until today, TSMC's…

• "Stupidity is a greater threat to civilization than even evil." - Jonny Thomson (quoting Dietrich Bonhoeffer) [01:34]

• "One of the worst things that can befall any society is what the ancient Greeks called amathia... It's when somebody celebrates the fact they don't know something and they take no steps to resolve it." - Jonny Thomson…

"Putin felt that Russia faced an existential threat he had to deal with that threat and the United States and the Europeans were doing nothing to negotiate a way to avoid war..." - John Mearsheimer [00:00:00]

"...if you get into trouble and you dial 911 there's nobody at the other end." - John Mearsheimer…

• "If you take slavery out of the picture, there is no Civil War. Period." - Gary Gallagher [00:01:24]

• "The house divided speech on Lincoln's part... that the nation could not continue in the long term half-slave and half-free." - Gary Gallagher [00:07:33]

• "When Lincoln spoke of the 'last…

"I wrote this literally to better understand what happened in 1929... ultimately people who make decisions create those economic cycles that make those decisions and if you can understand them, you can understand not just a period, but maybe that's the pattern recognition." - Andrew Ross Sorkin [00:03:52]

"I still to my dying day believe that letting…

• "Capitalism isn't here an economic system of inequality but a social form of power and domination... capitalism is the domination of the present by the past." - Barnaby Raine [00:05:13]

• "What might it mean to be a good heir? What does it mean to inherit those old ideas in different conditions?" - Barnaby Raine…

Quotes

"It is easier to sell one's signature than a bale of silk and it was also more profitable." - Joseph Wechsberg / Merchant Bankers 00:04:58 "We must not let in daylight upon magic." - Traditional Merchant Banking Motto 00:07:20 "Lawyers like to complicate matters. We like to…

"Any US trader who wanted to move goods abroad needed to go directly through London." - Demetri Kofinas [00:00:59]

"Information—its creation, organization, and dissemination—played a central role in laying the infrastructure for American financial hegemony." - Demetri Kofinas [00:01:23]

"What I really wanted to…