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"Alexander Hamilton called it the ancient dollar it was already an established uh uh unit of measure it was already an established currency well before the United States" - Brendan Greeley [00:06:55]
"monetary sovereignty is very difficult to achieve and constantly under attack hard one and hard to hold on to" - Brendan Greeley…
"Russia and China are eternal neighbors, they're not eternal friends. They have been their worst enemies over the years." - Sarah Paine [00:00:18]
"I can picture one ending to the Ukraine war where China gains a lot of territory in return for putting the screws on Russia to end things in the west." - Sarah Paine…
"The British realize at the end of the 19th century that oil is the new coal and so they decide that they need to have their own access to oil. If there was ever any doubt, World War II ended the doubt about the power of oil." - Dr. Roy Casagranda [00:01:07]
"Air warfare in World War II proved utterly worthless except if you are attacking oil…
"We almost had a 20th century in which communism doesn't appear in Russia and therefore in China or Korea Cuba Vietnam i mean there was almost a 20th century with no communism at all" - Douglas Brunt [00:00:47]
"One writer's footnote can be another writer's book and so in this case one of my own footnotes which was a sort of tangent piece about…
"What America has and which no other country has ever had to the same extent is it has soft power... it's selling modernity and freedom and if you work hard and if you graft you can be like Americans and you can live the American dream." - James Holland [00:00:00]
"History doesn't repeat itself because of course it can't because that was then and…
"my frustration with this idea of fiat is that it robs us of the power of analysis We can understand money We really can For almost all of our money sits as you guys already pointed out on the ledger of a commercial bank" - Brendan Greeley [00:00:00]
"We did not have a new country We did not call our currency the Washington We called it the…
"Saying that it's an honest broker is silly and stupid... The United States is supportive of Israel period." - Nasser Alkidwa [00:32:21]
"Either you want democracy or you don't want democracy. If you want democracy you will go for elections and you accept the results of the elections." - Nasser Alkidwa…
"I define a sphere of influence as a geographic region where one powerful state seeks to dominate the foreign policy orientations of weaker states within the region and also to exclude other great powers from significantly intervening in that territory." - Dr. Lindsey O'Rourke [00:02:06]
"This is a concept that quote should be relegated to the…
"it's probably one of the greatest myths of economic history that women have spent most of history as housewives" - Victoria Bateman [00:09:20]
"once you do start to look for women you find them everywhere history is filled with wonderful remarkable women bankers merchants entrepreneurs" - Victoria Bateman…
"If the only human reality was brute force we would still be living in tiny hunter gatherer bands in the African savannah because the whole of human history is about how do you get more people to cooperate and to trust each other and you cannot do that only with brute force." - Yuval Noah Harari [00:02:58]
"Nationalism at its core is about loving and…
"In my opinion about three quarters of it would be excellent if only the name of Great Britain was substituted for Germany." - John Maynard Keynes [00:12:28]
"When the facts change, I change my mind." - John Maynard Keynes [00:12:35]
"Why are we going to just keep going on about gold convertible exchange? Can't we…
"This did not prescribe that Saudi Arabia has to trade oil in U.S. dollars, but it really helped establish the US dollar as a main currency for global oil trade." - David Meier [00:01:21]
"The drop in oil production and exports was caused by the national oil company completely underinvesting in its infrastructure." - Norbert Rücker…
"Money starts from a set of ideas. It starts from the underlying system of credit and clearing. And then what is used as a token to represent that can actually be anything at all. It could be gold coins or it could be stone discs." - Felix Martin [00:00:00]
"People say it makes the world go round. But the irony is it's also the most successful…
"The past teaches us that there are some evil elements out there and they're not really representative ordinary people... we do have such people out there and often in very important and powerful positions." - Richard Werner [00:03:39]
"You need if you're planning for world war you also need to make sure the opponent is built up first to have a…
"If we don't have a million dollars by 10:00 a.m we're dead." - Unidentified New York Partners of Jay Cooke & Co. [00:41:49]
"Like Moses and Washington and Lincoln and Grant I have been I firmly believe God's chosen instrument especially in the financial work of saving the union." - Jay Cooke…
"In part one we will look at an extraordinary period that has not only defined but effectively created capital markets as we know them today." - Rick Brink [00:00:27]
"But for me it's a fundamental super cocktail and it is a collection of historic ingredients that nobody planned to come together at the same time and yet they do." - Rick Brink…
Lessons From the Five Innovation Waves Before AI
Michael T. Gapen, Chief US Economist, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
The current artificial intelligence (AI) wave has led to bothoptimism and pessimism: It promises faster productivity andeconomic growth but also raises concerns about job displacement, inequality and social upheaval. In assessing what AI may mean for the US economy, we look to the pastfor…
"If you don't do anything about Russia, Russia would take over Ukraine and Russia then would build an alliance with China and Iran... this is the entire Asian continent." - Professor Jiang [00:04:24]
"A war of attrition is a game of uncle... where we don't have enough power to destroy each other so what we try to do is we try to create pain points, leverage points to…
"today we are talking about a company so powerful it could wage war execute criminals establish its own colonies and govern entire continents and so wealthy that in today's money at its peak it was worth more than twice the combined value of Apple and Nvidia" - William Dalrymple [00:00:10]
"there's no time more wasted than for a young fellow to stay…
"Putin may think that he's a world historic individual... Xi definitely thinks of this but boy is Trump trumping all of them because he really has gone into that" - Fiona Hill [00:57:48]
"He really just thinks he can roll the dice over and over again and that he will never have some kind of setback." - Fiona Hill…
"2,300 years before John Nash sat down at Princeton and wrote the 27-page thesis that would win him the Nobel Prize in economics... a man in Pataliputra wrote the same theorem. Not a similar idea, not a philosophical forerunner—the actual theorem." - Ronny [00:00:00]
"He names the players in the system... entirely by their structural relationship to…
"basically in China we have no 19th century to some extent at all because basically the idea of the century was only emerged in the beginning of 20th century" - Wang Hui [00:13:26]
"it convey a very strong sense of the synchronicity global synchronicity it's almost not possible define China only with its own past the all others became our past" -…