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#425: Fiat Crisis with Balaji Srinivasan

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Marty sits down with Balaji Srinivasan for the longest episode of TFTC yet, going in depth on the nature of the incoming fiat crisis.


Balaji on Twitter: https://twitter.com/balajis


6:13 - How does the debt ceiling contribute to the fiat crisis?

9:48 - Reality check

21:38 - History is running in reverse

25:09 - The unipolar moment is over

38:05 - America is 3 tribes

44:42 - Democracy has 4 definitions

55:33 - India adopting pragmatic democracy

59:08 - China won’t go away

1:07:03 - USSA

1:36:11 - How America gets its strength back

1:43:16 - Dollar nationalists, social media politics

1:53:20 - It’s not one nation, it’s two parties with verbal footsoldiers

2:07:15 - The Gray tribe

2:35:47 - Blue losing media control

2:39:46 - Recap, Blue’s remaining power

2:45:48 - The tribal filter on the banking situation

3:01:36 - The declining US empire

3:13:13 - Blue America’s infrastructure highlights

3:16:40 - Exiting through Bitcoin

3:20:18 - We’ve lost our moon shoes

3:22:24 - The writing’s on the wall and states have incentive to exit early

3:42:53 - People robbed by cantillon cities are likely to get mad

3:48:13 - Fed now is a CBDC no matter what they say

4:05:15 - Civil unrest precursors

4:08:24 - Hiding insolvency

4:11:13 - History mirroring

4:17:04 - Reflecting on a long show, doling white pills


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