What History Tells Us About the Difference Between Hyperinflation and Inflation
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This week, Alon Levy, a fellow at NYU's Marron Institute, joined to discuss why the U.S. is not good at infrastructure and why public works projects carry a higher price tag in the U.S. as compared with other countries. Diogo Monica, the co-founder and president of Anchorage, a digital asset platform for institutions, came on to talk about Visa allowing transactions with UDS stablecoin. Boris Jordan, the executive chairman of Curaleaf, which just closed a deal to buy Emmac Life Sciences for $285 million giving the company entry into the European market, discussed the cannabis sector's growing momentum in both the U.S. and Europe. Then Zach Carter, the author of the best-selling book "The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes," joined to talk about what history tells us about the difference between hyperinflation and inflation.
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