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The Invention of Money
Before money existed, a farmer with a bunch of chickens who wanted shoes was basically stuck. This episode follows money's wild 4,000-year journey — cowrie shells, a Lydian king's stamped gold coins, Chinese paper receipts, Nixon cutting the dollar loose from gold in 1971, credit cards, and Bitcoin today.
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