#263 Lawrence Lepard: Get Ready for The Big Print, The Fall Of Fiat Currency, And The Rise Of Sound Money
The Julia La Roche Show · Julia La Roche
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Show Notes
Lawrence Lepard, author of "The Big Print," warns that America is witnessing the endgame of a decades-long monetary experiment that has created massive wealth inequality and put the country on an inevitable path toward high inflation.
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The Big Print book: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Print-Happened-America-Sound/dp/B0DVTCWYNN
0:00 Welcome Lawrence Lepard0:56 Macro framework & shifting from deflation to inflation3:33 Fed's two options: debt collapse or massive money printing7:01 Why Lawrence wrote the book & the dire situation11:14 Confronting Tim Geithner at Harvard Business School13:40 The Fed as a banking cartel setting interest rates16:39 How we got here: incremental monetary decay19:39 The everything bubble in currency25:16 The debt doom loop explained27:32 Bond market warning signals29:47 Defining sound money vs fiat currency33:40 Constitutional money & the fall of fiat37:15 The Fourth Turning & monetary reset coming40:32 Young people getting screwed by the system42:50 Investment allocation to sound money assets44:54 Presidential fixes: competing currencies & eliminating the Fed47:42 Who opposes sound money reform (Cantillionaires)50:37 Bitcoin going to millions & why it's not too late53:44 The positive future with sound money