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Read_689 - The Rediscovery of Money [dergigi]
"If your money requires permission to be spent, it is not your money. If your money has counterparty risk, it is not money—but credit. If your money steals from you, it is not your money—but a control...
5 Jan 202332min
Read_688 - The Chaffening [Aristophanes]
"So they fire out digital chaff frantically in every direction, they play whack-a-mole with high-engagement nodes that are or could be threats. The enemy is now reactively defending themselves, not pr...
4 Jan 20231h 22min
Green Eggs and Ham - Decentralized Finance, the Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
"This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to reconcile with this core purpose of secu...
3 Jan 20231h 57min
Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries [Alex Gladstein]
This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein's work, "STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES TO RICH ONES" published with Bitcoin...
31 Dec 20222h 54min
Read_687 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 5 [Alex Gladstein]
"Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease in GDP, the mortality rate increased by 1%. Now cons...
30 Dec 20221h 9min
Read_686 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 4 [Alex Gladstein]
"The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes in “Lent And Lost,” a straightforward Ponzi schem...
28 Dec 20221h 11min
Read_685 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 3 [Alex Gladstein]
"Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, of forgiving interest a...
20 Dec 202238min
Read_684 - How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries, Part 2 [Alex Gladstein]
"To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid and investment. But that same year, more than $3.3 tril...
15 Dec 20221h 2min
