hello twitter, i am seeking recs (books,articles,videos,podcasts,movies,wtvr) in the 'intro to finance' genre. interesting stories, tips and tricks, history, whatever is helpful for building interest and understanding is welcome. TIA!
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yeah see this is the good shit. it *is* weird eh
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exactly! you have to really think about wild shit like how nixon took america off the gold standard in 1971 and what that means about whether money is "real" now
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the term "goldbug" is used, among other things, to refer to people who think fiat currency is fake and we should return to the gold standard ("moldbug" is a pun on this):
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and idk much about what was going on around the nixon thing but you can read about it here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_sho
