Layered Money
From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies
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Narrated by:
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Guy Swann
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Nik Bhatia
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In this fascinating deep dive into the evolution of monetary systems around the globe, Nik Bhatia takes us into the origins of how money has evolved to function in a “layered” manner. Using gold as an example of this term, he traces the layers of this ancient currency from raw mined material, to gold coins, and finally to bank-issued gold certificates. In a groundbreaking manner, Bhatia offers a similar paradigm for the evolution of digital currencies. Bhatia’s analysis begins in Renaissance Florence with the gold Florin coin and a burgeoning banking culture, continues with the evolution of central banking, and concludes with a vision for the future of our international monetary system. As central banks around the world prepare to launch their own crypto-competitors, Bhatia illustrates how the invention of Bitcoin created a seismic shift in money and merged the monetary and cryptography sciences. His unique analysis of “layered money” illuminates money markets for the general reader and shows how Bitcoin is becoming a trusted global currency. Listeners will come away with an understanding of the mechanics of our financial system, why the dollar is deeply entrenched despite its state of disrepair, and how Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and cryptocurrencies will interact in our new monetary future.
Nik Bhatia is a financial researcher, CFA charterholder, and adjunct professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business where he teaches Applied Finance in Fixed Income Securities. Previously, Nik worked the US Treasuries trading desk for a large institutional asset manager and has extensive trading experience in money markets and interest rate futures. After starting his teaching career, Nik felt the urge to bring his research on both the international monetary system and Bitcoin together as one to write the book titled Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies. He has a BA in social sciences from University of Southern California and a Master in Finance from IE Business School in Madrid, Spain. Nik lives in Los Angeles, CA, with his wife and young daughter.
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Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is or how it works. Walking through its invention, step by step, this short audiobook is critical before you invest. Learn why Bitcoin was invented and how it works.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A step closer to understanding Bitcoin
- By Brian on 08-06-20
By: Yan Pritzker
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21 Lessons: What I've Learned from Falling Down the Bitcoin Rabbit Hole
- By: Gigi
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 236
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Like Bitcoin, these lessons aren’t a static thing. I plan to work on them periodically, releasing updated versions and additional material in the future. Bitcoin is an inexhaustible teacher, which is why I do not claim that these lessons are all-encompassing or complete. They are a reflection of my personal journey down the rabbit hole. There are many more lessons to be learned, and every person will learn something different from entering the world of Bitcoin.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Decent Essay That Should Have Remained an Essay
- By Matthew C Conlan on 06-26-21
By: Gigi
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Bitcoin is Venice
- Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
- By: Allen Farrington, Sacha Meyers
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers chart a crash course through the pitfalls of modern economic theory and the world's fiat money system with a hopeful destination in Bitcoin is Venice. What if a global, digital, sound, open-source, programmable currency was monetizing from absolute zero? How might our conception of capital change? What novel forms of capital formation and economic production will become possible? How might they affect the design of social institutions? Can Bitcoin bring about a new Renaissance? With Farrington and Meyers, the discussion is as revolutionary as the answers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Some really good analogies and great arguments for the positive case for bitcoin.
- By AdventureRiderSterling on 03-18-24
By: Allen Farrington, and others
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The Price of Tomorrow
- Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
- By: Jeff Booth
- Narrated by: Brian Troxell
- Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,361
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,984
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,964
We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance - and they are profoundly deflationary. Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology era when labor and capital were inextricably linked - an era that counted on growth and inflation and an era where we made money from inefficiency.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I've got this on constant repeat, 3 times already
- By Tim Kennedy on 05-20-20
By: Jeff Booth
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Thank God for Bitcoin
- The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money
- By: Bitcoin and Bible Group, Jimmy Song, Gabe Higgins, and others
- Narrated by: Tyler Torti
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 202
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 201
Money is a fact of everyday life. We earn it, spend it and save it. We’re tempted to worship it and to trust it to provide for our needs. While much has been written about the power, danger, and stewardship of money, little has been written about what money actually is and whether or not money itself is moral. That information gap has been exploited to enrich a privileged few, enslave millions, and reap confusion and division throughout the world. How did this happen and what can we do about it?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book about a moral perspective
- By Eric Rodriguez on 04-06-21
By: Bitcoin and Bible Group, and others
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Broken Money
- Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better
- By: Lyn Alden
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 521
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 465
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Story5 out of 5 stars 465
Broken Money explores the history of money through the lens of technology. Politics can affect things temporarily and locally, but technology is what drives things forward globally and permanently. The book's goal is for the listener to walk away with a deep understanding of money and monetary history, both in terms of theoretical foundations and in terms of practical implications.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It’s the ledger stupid
- By Jessica Hopman on 03-14-24
By: Lyn Alden
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Bitcoin Billionaires
- By: Ben Mezrich
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,703
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,467
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,455
Ben Mezrich's 2009 best seller, The Accidental Billionaires, is the definitive account of Facebook's founding and the basis for the Academy Award-winning film The Social Network. Two of the story's iconic characters are Harvard students Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss: identical twins, Olympic rowers, and foils to Mark Zuckerberg. Bitcoin Billionaires is the story of the brothers’ redemption and revenge in the wake of their epic legal battle with Facebook.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Misleading Title - Mostly "Winkelvi Memoirs"
- By kameir on 06-07-19
By: Ben Mezrich
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Check Your Financial Privilege
- By: Alex Gladstein
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Story5 out of 5 stars 75
Alex Gladstein has a lot to say about Bitcoin, human rights, financial privilege, and personal freedom. In Check Your Financial Privilege, he says it, starting with the fact that anyone born into a reserve currency like the euro, yen, or pound has financial privilege over the 89 percent of the world population born into weaker systems. As CSO of the Human Rights Foundation, Gladstein is uniquely positioned to detail the rise of Bitcoin from cypherpunk dream to the real-life Bitcoin stories happening to real people across the globe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An extremely important piece of work!
- By Jess James Jones Liljeholmens Kiropraktor Klinik on 06-16-23
By: Alex Gladstein
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Digital Gold
- Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
- By: Nathaniel Popper
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,152
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,873
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,863
A New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the Internet age.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Informative, but dry
- By Tomer on 05-10-16
By: Nathaniel Popper
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The Genesis Book
- The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin
- By: Aaron van Wirdum
- Narrated by: Christian Neale
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story5 out of 5 stars 25
Bitcoin did not appear out of nowhere. For decades prior to Satoshi Nakamoto’s invention, a diverse group of computer scientists, privacy activists, and heterodox economists tried to create a digital form of money that could operate independently of government control. The Genesis Book tells the story of the people and projects that inspired the invention of the world’s first successful peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent historical synopsis
- By Brad Abbott on 06-11-25
By: Aaron van Wirdum
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The Little Book of Bitcoin
- What You Need to Know That Wall Street Has Already Figured Out
- By: Anthony Scaramucci, Michael Saylor - foreword
- Narrated by: Anthony Scaramucci, Dean Gallagher
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19
Founder and comanaging partner of SkyBridge Capital Anthony Scaramucci delivers a comprehensive guide to understand disruption in the financial industry as a result of the emergence and increasing prominence of digital asset technology. This book runs the gambit from basic concepts all the way to implications of decentralized finance on the financial industry and society as a whole.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great overall book
- By Jayne A. Morrison on 05-31-25
By: Anthony Scaramucci, and others
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The Fiat Standard
- The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: Saifedean Ammous, Guy Swann
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 418
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 342
In The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global best seller The Bitcoin Standard. This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
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2 out of 5 stars
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keep narrative to economics related topics
- By HM on 06-14-22
By: Saifedean Ammous
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The Hidden Cost of Money
- How Financial Forces Shape Our Lives & the World Around Us
- By: Sebastian Bunney
- Narrated by: Russell Newton
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Do you ever feel like you're treading water, struggling to keep up with the rising tide of expenses? From groceries to housing to transportation, your cost of living continues to climb while your wages struggle to keep up. It's a frustrating and often isolating feeling. But the truth is, not only are you not alone in this struggle, but you are not the problem. The challenges we face stem from our money!
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very valuable book
- By richard on 08-20-24
By: Sebastian Bunney
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Bitcoin: Hard Money You Can't F*ck With
- Why Bitcoin Will Be the Next Global Reserve Currency
- By: Jason A. Williams
- Narrated by: Jessica Walker
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 693
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 587
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Story5 out of 5 stars 588
Entrepreneur and investor Jason A. Williams is the first author to put bitcoin in context of the 2020 crisis - a year of financial disaster and unprecedented money creation (money printer go brrr!). Hard Money You Can’t F*ck With explains bitcoin in simple, understandable terms and maps out how this "magic internet money" will grow into the best form of money we’ve ever had.
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5 out of 5 stars
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HFSP if you do not read/listen
- By brandon on 02-12-21
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The Bitcoin Standard
- The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
- By: Saifedean Ammous
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,486
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,733
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,703
When a pseudonymous programmer introduced “a new electronic cash system that’s fully peer-to-peer, with no trusted third party” to a small Online mailing list in 2008, very few paid attention. Ten years later, and against all odds, this upstart autonomous decentralized software offers an unstoppable and globally-accessible hard money alternative to modern central banks. The Bitcoin Standard analyzes the historical context to the rise of Bitcoin, the economic properties that have allowed it to grow quickly, and its likely economic, political, and social implications.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Less Bitcoin, more old Austrian Economics Vendetta
- By Brian Considine on 07-19-19
By: Saifedean Ammous
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The Blocksize War
- The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules
- By: Jonathan Bier
- Narrated by: Guy Swann
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 363
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 305
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Story5 out of 5 stars 303
This book covers bitcoin’s blocksize war, which was waged from August 2015 to November 2017. On the surface, the battle was about the amount of data allowed in each bitcoin block, however it exposed much deeper issues, such as who controls bitcoin’s protocol rules. It is not possible to cover every twist and turn in the labyrinthine conflict or all the arguments, but I have provided a chronology of the most significant events. This book explores some of the major characters in the conflict and includes coverage, from both the front lines and behind the scenes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Pleasure to Learn About
- By J. Lawler on 06-13-21
By: Jonathan Bier
Essential knowledge for the future
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Decent overview, not stellar, but worth a listen
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good book
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one sided analysis but good history
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Layered Money
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In no particular order:
Layered Money
Bitcoin Standard
Sovereign Individual
Price of Tomorrow
Digital Gold
Essential YouTube:
Invest Answers
Into the Cryptoverse
Coin Bureau
Pomp
Essential Podcasts:
What Bitcoin Did
Decrypt Daily
Coindesk Breakdown
Coin Stories
Essential reading for all crypto curious or enthusiasts
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Great Book! Thanks Nik
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makes saif look like a bear.
pump it Nik
more bullish than saif
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MONEY DEMISTIFYER
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Thank you for such a wonderful book
Excellent source of knowledge about Money
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