The Biggest Illusion Disrupting Your Life - Money, War, Power & Russia vs Ukraine | Graham Moore

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Today on Impact Theory, I’m joined by Graham Moore, a New York Timesbestselling novelist and Academy Awardwinning filmmaker who recently published the book “The Wealth of Shadows” about how economics were used to break the back of the Nazi war machine during WWII. You can get your copy of the book here

In this episode, Graham and I dive deep into how economics played a crucial role in defeating the Nazi war machine during WWII, draw fascinating parallels to today's strategies against Russia, and tackle modern issues like AI's impact on art and the morality of government decisions.

We also touch on:

- German economic revival and military expansion in the 1930s

- Modern Russian economic strategies & the preservation of economic independence

- Consequences of weaponized economic and political agendas

- Historical events and manipulation of wars post-WWII

- Importance of free speech and gun ownership

- The modern day value system and its impacts on society

- Use of AI in film and art

- Historical context & influence of WWII economic policies

- Modern-day undeclared wars and inflation concerns

- Perspectives on gun control and nuclear weapons

- Importance of public input on significant decisions

Don’t miss this compelling episode that promises a thought-provoking journey through history, economics, and the future of technology, touching on crucial themes like freedom, government power, and the moral implications of decision-making.

CHAPTER MARKERS:

[0:00] Lessons from WWII

[44:13] Manipulation in currencies

[1:28:27] Consequences of printing money

[1:53:15] Using debt for productive capacity

[2:29:44] AI influences on film & art

POWERFUL QUOTES FROM Graham Moore:

"The set of techniques that the United States and the European Union have been using against Russia these past few years are essentially the modern versions of a set of techniques developed by this group of people at treasury in 1939."

"In a way, you find it's like multiple deep states, right? You have sort of multiple competing forces within the government with mutually exclusive and incompatible goals."

"I was reading Keynes, and I was reading his opponents writing in the thirties and forties, and going, oh, my gosh, this could have been written yesterday. This is exactly the same set of conversations we're having about cryptocurrencies that we're having today."

"It says something, I think, a lot about British culture, certainly at the time, that an economist became a war hero at the end of the first World War, stunned by how well the country was doing."

"If you force a population into decades of crushing poverty, they're going to choose political solutions to that poverty that are horrible."

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