Economic trends and market analysis
First commodity currency — Yap’s four-ton stones, cowry shells that lasted 4,000 years, medieval English tally sticks. Money is not a thing — it is the community’s agreed memory, all the way to Bitcoin.
Limits of barter — How many trades to swap a cow for a loaf of bread? From a Neolithic farmer’s day to Mesopotamian clay tablets and Graeber’s credit theory — why money had to be invented in the first place.
History of money — Money is a social contract written in numbers. A 30-episode series tracing 5,000 years of trust as money — from Mesopotamian barley to Bitcoin ETFs and beyond.