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Ep. 209: ‘Is money speech?’ with Robert Breedlove
There is a recurring debate in the free speech community regarding whether money is speech.
Bitcoin-focused entrepreneur, writer, and philosopher Robert Breedlove joins us today to discuss this very question. Describing money as “the language of human action,” Robert makes the case that money, like the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is information and should be free from government regulation and manipulation. During this longer-than-usual episode, Robert and Nico discuss everything from Keynesian economics and 3D-printed firearms to the Chinese Communist Party.
Robert is the host of the popular podcast, “The ‘What is Money?’ Show,” which dives into the nature of money by asking guests one simple question: What is money? In 2020, he co-authored the book, “Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money.”
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
3:56 Robert’s background
19:21 What is Austrian economics?
24:23 Is money speech?
44:48 Can money express irrational things?
51:59 Is access to perfect information always a good thing?
1:05:17 Bitcoin and anonymity
1:14:58 Prediction markets
1:18:14 Theories of information/the marketplace of ideas
1:31:49 Is code speech?
1:39:59 Is economic freedom more fundamental than freedom of speech?
1:49:13 Regulating bitcoin
1:55:16 Bitcoin ETFs
1:57:03 Rapid-fire Bitcoin questions
2:06:16 Does more access to information make the world a better place?
2:06:53 Outro
Show Notes
“The ‘What is Money?’ Show”
“The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin
“The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous
“The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Friedrich Hayek
“The Logic of Scientific Discovery” by Karl Popper
“Areopagitica” by John Milton
Ep. 136 Comic book panic!
Ep. 135 Are education schools secretly driving campus censorship?
Ep. 134 A cheerleader’s free speech case lands at the Supreme Court
[FIXED] Ep. 133 University of Wisconsin Professor Donald Downs
Ep. 132 Academic Freedom Alliance with Keith Whittington
Ep. 131 ‘Incitement’ with David L. Hudson Jr.
Ep. 130 Stonewalling by the University of California
Ep. 129 ‘The Fight for Free Speech’ with Ian Rosenberg
Ep. 128 John McWhorter says academics are really, really worried
Ep. 127 What happened to American childhood? with Kate Julian and Greg Lukianoff
Ep. 126 Free speech after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Ep. 125 National Review’s Charles C.W. Cooke
Ep. 124 ‘Burning the Books’ with Richard Ovenden
Ep. 123 Campus mobs, heckler’s vetoes, racial segregation, and a rogue student government!
Ep. 122 U.S Constitution masterclass with Judge Douglas Ginsburg
Ep. 121 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards
Ep. 120.1 Mighty Ira documentary watch-along
Ep. 120 ‘Mighty Ira’ Glasser
Ep. 119 2020 College Free Speech Rankings
Ep. 118 David Goldberger, lead attorney in “the Skokie case”
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