035 - Pierre Corbin: The Great Reset, Bitcoin & The Macro Future

Episode • Jul 21, 2023 • 2h 2m

Timothy Allen talks with Pierre Corbin.

Pierre is a film director and co-founder of the world's first Bitcoin film festival. This conversation with Pierre is a deep dive into his latest film 'The Great Reset and the Rise of Bitcoin' which reflects his ideas and observations of the current macro economic situation that we all find ourselves in.

Some of the many subjects touched upon in this episode include: The gold standard, Venetian war bonds, Ming Dynasty hyperinflation, debt cycles, social networks, Chat GPT, ESG, CBDCs, AI, UBI, the IMF ….

Apparently, if you love acronyms… you’re gonna love this episode. So stay tuned.

Enjoy the conversation

TIMESTAMPS:

00:30 - Introduction of episode

02:50 - ‘Triangle of Sadness’ and ‘Babylon’

07:50 - Does art change people’s minds?

12:30 - What is the gold standard?

19:40 - China’s experiments with paper money

27:46 - Debt cycles

33:30 - The problem with kicking the can down the road

38:57 - The tulip bubble and inflation

44:21 - Inflation and CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies)

50:04 - CBDCs are a central planner’s wet dream

53:32 - The main problems with central bank digital currencies

1:00:55 - Universal Basic Income

1:05:16 - How many jobs will be lost by AI?

1:11:16 - The difference between fiat culture and hard money culture

1:17:55 - CBDC timeline

1:21:37 - Stablecoins vs. Bitcoin

1:32:01 - Facebook’s Libra project

1:36:10 - Nuclear energy and climate change

1:40:41 - Nuclear Power in France and Germany

1:45:06 - Selling excess energy to the grid

1:51:55 - Green energy for small communities in Africa.

1:54:46 - Sabbatical and new film project

TWITTER:

Pierre Corbin: https://twitter.com/CierrePorbin

Timothy Allen: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Free Cities Foundation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound⁠⁠⁠⁠

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