How the West Poisoned Its Money — Yanis Varoufakis

Interesting article, but it doesn't mention how the West also poisoned its money by politicizing it — weaponizing it really — with sanction.

The article also suggests, although not explicitly, how so-called sound money backed by conversion into a real resource at a fixed rate addresses this issue of cheapening the money. This is may be coming by fixing an international trading vehicle through a basket of commodities, a return to precious metal standard being unlikely.

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How the West Poisoned Its Money
Yanis Varoufakis