Why Monetary Debasement Is Here to Stay, Feat. Dr. Vikram Mansharamani

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today on the Brief:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">FTX lists two Compound tokens</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Reddit partners with Ethereum Foundation on Layer 2 scaling</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Black-In Freedom Festival reimagines Juneteenth</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our main topic: </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Vikram Mansharamani is a lecturer at Harvard and author of “Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst” as well as the just released “Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence.” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why our relationship with experts and expertise is leading us astray</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How COVID-19 shows the downside of both over-reliance on, and complete rejection of, experts </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How the economic crisis surrounding COVID-19 is bursting bubbles and moving us from a period defined by deflation to one defined by inflation</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why “monetary debasement is here to stay”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why the U.S.-China relationship is the key backdrop for understanding the next 10 years of global economic reality </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why inequality threatens the fabric of our economy and our society, and what might be done about it</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find our guest online:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter:</span> <a hr