S18E7 - Is Money Really Wealth? The Truth About GDP, Inflation and Broken Money (ep. 243)

Is money really the same as wealth—or have we misunderstood it completely?

In this episode of the WS Podcast, Wojciech Salski breaks down the key ideas from Capital Offense by Paul Musson, exploring the true nature of money, the flaws of GDP, and why our current financial system may be fundamentally broken.

Most people think of money as wealth.

But what if money is just a tool - a claim on real goods and services - rather than value itself?

We explore:

the critical difference between money and real we...