290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science
The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science shows how fiat centralizes education and research funding, removes real market feedback, produces meaningless research papers, politicizes science, entraps st...
9 Sep 20251h 21min
289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food
The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food explains how fiat destroyed modern food, as governments optimize farming policy & nutritional guidelines to mask inflation, industrial sludge replaces meat & ani...
2 Sep 202549min
288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life
The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard mo...
26 Aug 202548min
287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?
Fiat's superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook ...
19 Aug 202552min
286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery
The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’...
12 Aug 202548min
285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining
Lecture 4 of The Fiat Standard explains how fiat is mined through credit creation, incentivizing everyone to get into debt, causing prices to rise, which is covered up with the nonsensical CPI. Saylor...
5 Aug 20251h 2min
284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology
Lecture 3 of The Fiat Standard explains the underlying technology behind fiat: a centralized network where money is created from credit expansion, devaluing existing holders' wealth, externalizing def...
29 Jul 202542min
283. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 2 - The Never-Ending Bank Holiday
This is Lecture 2 of Saifedean's online course The Fiat Standard, based on his book by the same name. The course began last week and will include all 18 lectures. You can buy the hardcover, ebook or a...
22 Jul 202535min
