We Need To Talk Gold
From The Observatory
While many public commentators deIt is becoming increasingly clear that the new global financial infrastructure will, in one form or another, be built around gold. That is why our next conversation between Michael Hudson and Kathleen Tyson will be about exactly that.
David Graeber once wrote: “Historically, the association between gold, war, and debt is not a coincidence. Coins were invented to pay soldiers. Soldiers looted gold. Gold was brought back to the mint. Taxes were paid in coins — by the very people whose villages the soldiers had just passed through.”
So the question we want to bring to that conversation is: how do we build a system that projects stability — rather than one that keeps pulling us toward war?Key Speaker: Kathleen Tyson, Michael Hudson
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