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Money Isn’t Real—Here’s Why That Matters

Money Isn’t Real—Here’s Why That Matters

The Next Big Idea Daily

August 13, 202518m 18s

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Show Notes

Journalist Paul Vigna has spent years covering crypto and asking hard questions about finance. He’s written a new book called The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin and in it he argues that money is less of a tool and more of a kind of religious object — a myth fueled by faith, weaponized by greed, and now so central to our lives that we barely question it. But maybe we should.

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