THE MONEY PLOT: Frederick Kaufman's penetrating history of money myths & fiction is perfect timing with Central Bankers' Covid-19 trillions. This injection is saving mankind, believes Kaufman

In his scintillating, controversial history The Money Plot: A History of Currency's Power to Enchant, Control, and Manipulate (Other Press Hardcover; November 24, 2020; ISBN: 9781590517185; $27.99), journalist and Professor Frederick Kaufman delves into the past 65,000 years to demystify the concept of money, reminding us that whether its form is polished shells, bills or bitcoin – in the end, it’s all a fiction. With the same ease that Salt: A World History and Freakonomics condensed thousands of years of history into a highly informative yet entertaining format, The Money Plot explains how money was created, used, and is constantly being transformed. It also peers through the fog of modern finance to reveal how the Federal Reserve creates those trillions, why most of today’s money exists in a complex yet poorly understood web of computer screen abstraction – and the twisted but inevitable path that led here. Frederick Kaufman’s media appearances and articles include this New Yorker piece on pandemics and conspiracy theories, NBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business, TEDx, and Harper’s. This winter, he’ll take a virtual tour to talk about The Money Plot, including the Boston Athenæum, Mechanics’ Institute, Toronto Public Library, Decatur Library, Fountain Bookstore, Skylight Books, and more.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/john-aidan-byrne0/support