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Richard Werner taught me about City of London, how financial metrics can be misused to create narratives to mislead eg GDP, and he believes in lots of small, decentralized community banks. Helped me to understand the machinations of big banks and how they extract value (loot). My black pill moment is I'd like to find out the real story, behind the Bank Secrecy Act - because I believe thats where the real trouble lies. He's never expressed an opinion about BTC on any of the podcasts I've seen. Thank you for the Tucker Carlson link.
In this interview (July 2024) I’m asking him explicitly about bitcoin and his vision on more small community banks- challenging him with the fact that he’s essentially preaching for more fiat banks, and further fractional reserve banking and from his answer I felt like he doesn’t get Bitcoin, nor that he sees the issues/problems with excessive printing of fiat and fractional reserve / debt creation. I think it’s a bit strange to be honest. Also when Philip Bagus challenges his view, he calls it nonsense. Watch from minute 27:
Not the question but Phillip Bagus got purplepilled, even if not orangepilled. We live in a time of transition, between the times before Bitcoin and the time after. In decades we cross a divide and on both sides the other world feels so far away. Bitcoin is the technology but it's the people that matter and we can try to help the two worlds be seen at the same time
Shamelessly copy/pasting my response to Marty but echo the sentiment from Efrat and others - the so-called "father of QE" is not incentivized to honestly discuss the problem or the solution. ----- It was interesting but it was littered with logical inconsistencies and contradictions. Tucker doesn't have the monetary chops to push back either (not a knock on him, he can't be across everything). John Haar summarised it well I think image
It seems he preliminarily touched bitcoin but does not fully get it, yet, so is a bit apprehensive. I think he just needs a few things cleared and he's be on fire about bitcoin. @Vlad's interview with him shows that towards the end. What's your assessment Vlad?
He invented QE and is "famous" for his research on the credit creation theory which he proofed by taking a loan at a german bank and audited the banking book an traced where the money came from (out of thin air).