I'm Jack Chapple. I make videos on economics, business and geopolitics: why countries go broke, who really holds power, and where the world is heading next. …
30:0221K views · 1d ago · 30:02
"You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy." It started as a World Economic Forum video in 2016 and became one of the most argued-about sentences on the internet. So is it a plan, a warning, or already happening? Checkout my platform
30:3546K views · 3d ago · 30:35
America now spends more on interest than on its military. Britain, Japan and France are all borrowing at levels that, in the past, came before some very bad days. So is 2027 the year the debt comes due and everything crashes?
33:3922K views · 4d ago · 33:39
Cash is quietly being replaced, and the new money could do things cash never could. It could know who you are, expire on a date, refuse to buy certain things, stop working when the power goes out, be frozen without a court order, and even spend itself.
Topics: A new order of the ages · The one-gram bill · Why is money a thing you can hold? · Paper money, from China to Sweden · Does money know who you are? · Can money go off?
35:05265K views · 6d ago · 35:05
Something really weird just happened to the US dollar, and almost nobody noticed. To understand it, we go back 2,000 years: Roman emperors shaving their coins, a Byzantine coin that held for 700 years, Venice's ducat, Bretton Woods, Nixon's "temporary" weekend in 1971, the petrodollar, and now a phone app that owns more US debt than most countries.
Showing the 4 most recent episodes. Everything plays right here on Pod Atlas.
Have thoughts about Jack Chapple? Share them with other listeners.
Discuss this podcast