Matthew Pines on the Future of Money, AI, and Monetary Policy

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  Welcome to Macro Musings,

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  where each week we pull back the curtain and take a closer look at the most important macroeconomic issues of the past,

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  present, and future.

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  I am your host, David Beckworth,

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  a senior research fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,

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  and I'm glad you decided to join us.

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  Our guest today is Matthew Pines.

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  Matthew is the executive director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute and a former guest of the show.

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  He returns to tell us about the future of money,

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  AI, and the US role in that future.

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  Matthew, welcome back to the podcast.

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  It's great to be back.

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  Well, it's great to have you on again.

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  And this is very special for me

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  because you are now in a new and exciting role.

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  You're the executive director of the Bitcoin Policy Institute.

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  So tell us about your new gig and what you guys are doing there.

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  Yeah, certainly.

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  My career has evolved through a few different twists and turns.

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  I started out as a physics and philosophy major at Hopkins,

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