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George Selgin on Bitcoin as Store of Value or Medium or Exchange, and What Ended the Great Depression? | InFi #92

June 13, 2025

George Selgin on Bitcoin as Store of Value or Medium or Exchange, and What Ended the Great Depression?
2025-06-13  56 min
George Selgin on Bitcoin as Store of Value or Medium or Exchange, and What Ended the Great Depression?
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Economist George Selgin has a new book, False Dawn, from the University of Chicago Press, explaining the latest research on how the New Deal did—and didn't—promote US recovery from the Great Depression. But first, he and Bob discuss George's arguments with the HODLers on whether Bitcoin is a store of value or medium of exchange.

Related:
-  https://x.com/Swan/status/1928536748415758507 
- https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo244061292.html 
- https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2014/contrasting-views-great-depression 
- https://infineo.ai/32

 

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