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The Dangerous History Podcast Learn the Past/Understand the Present/Prepare for the Future July 4 Ep. 0235: Monsters to Destroy: A Fun-Sized Fourth of July DHP Special Despite being in the process of getting over Covid (which didn’t hit him particularly hard overall, but did hit his voice pretty badly), and despite still being up to his eyeballs on the forthcoming DHP episode about British propaganda ops in the US during WWI, CJ decided to put out a Fun-Sized DHP Independence Day special about a great speech given on a Fourth of July 201 years ago.Join CJ as he discusses John Quincy Adams, his famous speech from July 4th, 1821, the Monroe Doctrine, and how US leaders since the 1890s have turned away from Adams’ wisdom.Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar. Category: American History, Podcasts, Specials | Comments Off on Ep. 0235: Monsters to Destroy: A Fun-Sized Fourth of July DHP Special June 13 Ep. 0234: Busy Giddy Minds With Foreign Quarrels CJ continues to slog away on the first installment in the upcoming World War I Propaganda in the US mini-series, but he recently decided to take a brief break from that to talk about some historical tendencies that, unfortunately, seem to be repeating themselves in real time.Join CJ as he discusses the various ways that economics & the desire to distract from political problems at home often cause unnecessary wars, plus a few noteworthy examples of American leaders who resisted the urge to go to war despite economic and political problems at home.Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar.External LinksA free pdf copy of Reassessing the Presidency (edited by John Denson & published by the Mises Institute.) Category: American History, Economic History, Modern World History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Ep. 0234: Busy Giddy Minds With Foreign Quarrels June 9 Vintage DHP Ep. 52 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar Part 5: Ticking Timebomb of the Petrodollar (*Note: This is a Vintage Dangerous History Podcast from 2014, reissued on the public DHP feed for a limited time. Please cut the poor audio quality some slack!)Finally, we conclude our non-consecutive series on the history of the history of the US dollar with part 5, looking at the story of the dollar following the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system.  (This podcast was actually recorded over the course of 2 commutes — the first half in the morning commute to work, and the second one in the afternoon commute home.)Join CJ as he discusses:How the ending the ‘gold window’ in 1972 led to high inflation, which led to negative consequences (including some not purely economic) for societyThe approaches of the Ford and Carter administrations to dealing with inflationHow, under first Carter and then Reagan, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker (appointed in 1979) used high interest rates to staunch (though not completely stop) the erosion of the US dollar’s value in the early-1980sThe reasons that the dollar still (mostly) operates as the world reserve currency despite its obvious flaws and vulnerabilities, including the meaning of the term ‘petrodollar’How things will go wrong, sooner or later, with this system, and how the remedy used previously by Volcker (high interest rates) could not realistically be used today by the Fed, even if they wanted to do soA few thoughts on ways to prepare for this eventualitySupport the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar.External LinksUS Debt Clock Category: American History, Economic History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Vintage DHP Ep. 52 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar Part 5: Ticking Timebomb of the Petrodollar May 25 Vintage DHP Ep. 35 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 4 (*Note: This is a Vintage Dangerous History Podcast from 2014, reissued on the public DHP feed for a limited time. Please cut the poor audio quality some slack!)Here it is, another installment in our non-consecutive mini-series on the tumultuous history of the United States Dollar.Join CJ (in 2014) as he discusses:The Bretton Woods system, set up in 1944 as the framework for the international monetary orderThe roots of the Great Inflation (c. mid-1960s-early-1980s) that would end Bretton Woods & any link between the US dollar and specie (gold & silver), including the rise of  the so-called “New Economists”, who pushed a Neo-Keynesian view that relied heavily on a model called the “Phillips Curve”  (BTW, the stagflation of the 1970s later proved that the Phillips Curve doesn’t always work)How the Great Inflation came to be, looking across multiple decades & presidential administrationsThe government’s responses to inflation, including de-monetizing silver in the mid-60s & ending the Bretton Woods ‘gold window’ in 1971Some of the effects of inflationSupport the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar. Category: American History, Economic History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Vintage DHP Ep. 35 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 4 May 13 Vintage DHP Ep. 33 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 3 (*Note: This is a Vintage Dangerous History Podcast from 2014, reissued on the public DHP feed for a limited time. Please cut the poor audio quality some slack!)Here it is, another installment in our non-consecutive mini-series on the tumultuous history of the United States Dollar.Join CJ as he discusses:How hard money was eventually restored after the Civil WarThe Mint Act of 1873 (called the “Crime of ’73” by its opponents)The Populists’ (unsuccessful) challenge against the Gold StandardThe establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and its effect on US moneyInflation/devaluation during the First World WarThe actions of Benjamin Strong (Head of the NY Fed) in the 1920s to help the British pound, moves which also caused the stock & real estate bubbles of the 1920s, which burst in 1929The end of the gold standard, gold confiscation, and the devaluation of the US Dollar under FDR in the 1930s, and how this was actually one of the factors that led to the Second World WarSupport the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar. Category: American History, Economic History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Vintage DHP Ep. 33 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 3 April 24 Appearance on Agora: The Podcast While you’re waiting on the next DHP episode to be finished (and I promise 2 things: 1. I am hard at work on it & have already recorded several segments of it; & 2. it’s gonna be an epic plus-sized DHP episode all about the British government’s propaganda operation in the US from 1914-1917 to get the US into WWI on the side of the British Empire), please enjoy my recent appearance on Agora: The Podcast! Category: Uncategorized | Comments Off on Appearance on Agora: The Podcast April 21 Vintage DHP Ep. 26 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 2 (*Note: This is a Vintage Dangerous History Podcast from 2014, reissued on the public DHP feed for a limited time. Please cut the poor audio quality some slack!)We continue with our non-consecutive mini-series on the history of the US dollar, which has changed repeatedly over the centuries.Join CJ as he discusses:How, in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War Continental Dollar inflation, most of the Founding Fathers were soured on paper money, and took the opportunity of writing a new Constitution to reinstate a hard money (specie) standardThe loopholes that remained within the system even after hard money was written into the Constitution that allowed the banksters to still inflate to their own advantageThe Coinage Act of 1792 and its effect on the definition of US moneyHow banks (especially central banks) still created some inflation thanks to the ‘magic’ of “fractional reserve banking”, and also sparked business cycles – though by today’s standards the US dollar’s value was remarkably stable overallHow the not-so-Civil War spelled changes in American money that were just as dramatic as the changes the war wrought in so many other arenas, with the Union experiencing high inflation, and the Confederacy experiencing hyperinflationSupport the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar. Category: American History, Economic History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Vintage DHP Ep. 26 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 2 March 22 Vintage DHP Ep. 21 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 1 (*Note: This is a Vintage Dangerous History Podcast from 2014, reissued on the public DHP feed for a limited time.)This will be part 1 of a multipart series (right now I estimate it will probably be around 4 parts) covering the history of the United States dollar.  The series will be non-contiguous — ie, interspersed with episodes on other, probably non-related topics.Join CJ as he discusses:Why money matters to understanding the worldBritish money of the colonial era, bimetallism, and Gresham’s LawOther things the colonists used as money when coinage wasn’t readily availableSome of the desirable qualities in a commodity that make it work better than others as money, and some of the reasons why gold and silver function so well as money historicallyThe origins of the dollar — originally a Spanish coin modeled on a Bohemian coin, actuallyThe first paper money inflation in the Western World — in colonial MassachusettsHow overprinting of paper money in MA (and later in other colonies) disrupted their economy, and reinstating of hard money revived itThe Revolutionary War Continental Dollars, and the hyperinflation that resultedA few updates on the show, how it’s going, ways to support it, thank-yous to those who have, and a few remarks about the future of the showExternal linksAn excerpt from the TV show DuckTales which shows how increasing the money supply dilutes the value of the money (Uncle Scrooge has more economic sense than our leaders!)Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar. Category: American History, Economic History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Vintage DHP Ep. 21 (Reissue): A History of the US Dollar, Part 1 March 19 Ep. 0233: CJ’s Top 10 War Propaganda Techniques Join CJ as he first gives an update on a few recent personal difficulties, and then goes over the following war propaganda techniques:Demonize the enemy’s leader.Dehumanize the enemy’s people.Turn the conflict into a super-simplistic morality play.Fabricate heroic stories about your side.Fabricate and/or exaggerate enemy atrocity stories.Exaggerate the enemy’s intentions and/or capabilities.Lie by omission/Cherry-pick.Crop the story/truncate the antecedents.Give your people empty symbolic gestures to signal their virtue.Smear/demonize any of your people who question or criticize The Narrative.Be sure to follow CJ’s new Twitter account, @KillmerCJ!Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar.External LinksScott Horton’s recent 2-hour presentation on the Ukraine warDarryl Cooper’s recent Martyrmade episode on the Ukraine warScott Horton’s recent appearance on the Jocko Unraveling podcast Category: American History, Military History, Modern World History, Podcasts | Comments Off on Ep. 0233: CJ’s Top 10 War Propaganda Techniques March 5 Ep. 0232: The Great Realignment? (w/Alex Von Sternberg) Recently, CJ had a long & interesting conversation with Alexander Von Sternberg of the podcast History Impossible, to discuss recent & current events and try to analyze them through a historical lens.Join CJ & Alex as they discuss the major realignment currently taking place in the US, some historical parallels, and some potential ways (good and bad) things might play out in the medium-to-long run.Support the Dangerous History Podcast via Patreon or SubscribeStar.LinksHistory ImpossibleDHP Ep. 205: Divide & Conquer, Divide & RuleTulsi Gabbard’s speech at CPAC 2022 Category: American History, Interviews, Podcasts | Comments Off on Ep. 0232: The Great Realignment? 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