Inflation: What Is It? Why It's Bad? How to Fix It?

Featuring: Nathan Lewis, Co-Author, Inflation Inflation: What Is It? Why It's Bad? How to Fix It? Timestamps: 0:00 Welcome and Topic Introduction: Inflation 0:20 Nathan Lewis, Co-Author of Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It 0:55 What is Inflation: Changes in the Value of Currency 5:19 Nathan's definition of inflation: the distortion of prices that occurs when money loses value. 6:54 Negative Impact of the US Dollar Becoming Fiat Money 10:22 Why don't countries use precious metals to back their currency and do powerful people benefit from that? 16:04 Gold's Value and Relating it to the Potential of Bitcoin 19:09 Are we going to have more SDRs that are baskets that include multiple currencies (Dollar, Won, Gold, Bitcoin)? 22:38 Gold and Government's Concerning Control of Money 26:28 Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) Drawbacks: Lack of Privacy & Being Monitored by the Government 29:40 Future Moving Towards CBDCs & Alternatives of It (Physical Ownership of Gold, Diamonds, etc.) 33:53 Government CPI: Constantly Undergoes Changes 36:08 How the War in Ukraine Affects Wheat, Oil, and Inflation in General 38:57 If Modern Monetary Theory is so great, why not just give every citizen $1m? 45:32 Inflation is Government Theft of Our Money 48:23 What defines hyperinflation? 51:13 Is gold a tool for the central bankers? 53:37 Predicting the Price of Gold by the End of 2022 54:53 With inflation so high now, can the Fed keep on raising interest rates? 56:33 No one thing (Gold, Oil, Timber, etc.) is always an inflation hedge. 1:00:16 Physical Assets and Commodities 1:02:59 Opinion on Ray Dalio's "Cash is Trash" Statement 1:05:12 Investing in Hedge Funds: How many managers are actually good at that? 1:08:52 Can the Fed reduce demand without breaking the back of the economy? 1:10:59 Does the world economic forum and powers that be want us to live in a world where we own nothing? 1:13:20 Learn More About Nathan Lewis 1:16:07 Outro: Angelo Robles & Family Office Association #inflation #AngeloRobles #AngeloRoblesPodcast #Crypto #Gold #Silver #Investing #Oil #NaturalResources #Finance #Bitcoin #InterestRates #TheFED #FED