{"podcast":{"title":"Reinvent Money","slug":"reinvent-money-7113646","podcast_index_feed_id":7113646,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/c25d6818/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/ReinventMoneyVideos/featured","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/32509014/32509014-1666001429181-c5ba2610ccf1d.jpg","author":"Reinvent Money","episode_count":80,"summary":"Welcome to reinvent.money where Paul Buitink conducts insightful interviews with leading people in the macro and money space in order to improve public understanding of what's wrong with our financial system and how it can be improved. Paul has been active in both the mainstream and alternative finance space, having worked at a bank, credit insurance company, gold companies and a Bitcoin exchange. He was also one of the driving forces behind the campaign to establish a full reserve bank in The Netherlands, called depositobank. Paul lives in The Netherlands.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646"},"episode":{"title":"\"Fiat Inflationary Nightmare\" - How to Reform Financial System - Dr. Mark Thornton","slug":"fiat-inflationary-nightmare-how-to-reform-financial-system-dr-mark-thornton","published_at":"2026-02-26T16:00:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646/fiat-inflationary-nightmare-how-to-reform-financial-system-dr-mark-thornton","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reinvent-money/episodes/Fiat-Inflationary-Nightmare---How-to-Reform-Financial-System---Dr--Mark-Thornton-e3fktbh","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO6405298502.mp3","summary":"Paul Buitink talks to Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute about Trump's economic policies. His tariffs are harmful, his deregulation efforts Mark is more positive about. The high gold and silver prices signal that something is terribly wrong with the economy and the financial system. Mark explains the bubble will pop later this year he expects using the skyscraper curse analogy. Mark explains why small government and sound money are better for average Americans. He details how we should reform the monetary system discussing ending the Fed, introducing gold savings account and room for crypto. It will be tough for many, but it's essential to restore America. At the end Mark also gives his opinion on a potential conflict with Iran and interventionism in general. More info about Mark, the Mises Institute and the books here: https://x.com/DrMarkThorntonhttps://mises.org/Hayek:https://mises.org/hayek21https://mises.org/library/book/hayek-21st-century-essays-political-economy Skycraper Curse: https://mises.org/library/book/skyscraper-curse-and-how-austrian-economists-predicted-every-major-economic-crisis-last-centuryFollow Paul on X here:https://x.com/paulbuitinkTimestamps: 0:00 Intro and bio 4:41 The state of Austrian School economics 6:40 How would Mises grade Trump's policies 13:35 US trade deficit and the role of the dollar 18:35 The negative effects of big government 23:57 Mark's crisis forecast and the Skyscraper Curse 32:05 What rising gold and silver prices tell us. 35:28 How to reform the financial system 49:48 Interventionism and Iran 56:22 Outro","meta_description":"Paul Buitink talks to Dr. Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute about Trump's economic policies. His tariffs are harmful, his der…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3406,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/reinvent-money-7113646/episodes/fiat-inflationary-nightmare-how-to-reform-financial-system-dr-mark-thornton/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/reinvent-money-7113646/fiat-inflationary-nightmare-how-to-reform-financial-system-dr-mark-thornton.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}