"The Big Print" is Coming with Larry Lepard (WiM555)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Larry Lepard joins me to explore his new book “The Big Print”, what the next decade of money printing will look like, how inflation destroys the middle class, Metcalfe’s Law and the power of network effects, Bitcoin vs gold, the threat of paper bitcoin, the creation of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and the hope of a hyperbitconized future. Lawrence W. Lepard is the founder and the Managing Partner of Equity Management Associates LLC and author of the new book “The Big Print”.

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0:00.0	Printing money is like alcoholism.
0:02.0	The good effects come first.
0:03.9	The bad effects only come later.
0:05.7	By nature, it has to get progressively worse.
0:08.1	We tend to only change when the pain...
0:10.7	Well, that's exactly right.
0:11.9	Become so acute.
0:13.5	World, we're having a sovereign debt crisis.
0:15.7	Don't you get it?
0:16.7	Pay attention now.
0:18.6	Why is this such a blind spot for people?
0:20.2	There are two sets of rules.
0:21.7	One set of rules for them.
0:23.1	One set of rules for the rich and powerful.
0:24.8	It's part of American exceptionalism, I guess.
0:26.8	They just think the dollar is and always will be.
0:28.9	And I'm like, guys, open them in monetary history book.
0:32.1	It's either hyperinflation or you get conquered.
0:34.0	War and money printing kind of go hand in hand.
0:37.2	It's genocide.
0:38.3	Doge, by the way, is a generally good thing, and it will help.
0:41.3	This is the Department of Government Efficiency, not the shit coin.
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