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Fiat Ruins Everything
- How Our Financial System is Rigged and How Bitcoin Fixes It
- By: Jimmy Song
- Narrated by: Colin Sherif Ghannam
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Fiat Ruins Everything is an analysis of the debasement of the modern world from our banking system and real estate to our educational system and art. Learn why these systems keep getting worse and why Bitcoin will make things better. Fiat Ruins Everything delivers a knockout punch, unmasking the pervasive destruction caused by the fiat currency system while highlighting the hope found in Bitcoin.
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Solid story, dreadful narration
- By Cristóbal on 12-31-23
- Fiat Ruins Everything
- How Our Financial System is Rigged and How Bitcoin Fixes It
- By: Jimmy Song
- Narrated by: Colin Sherif Ghannam
Solid story, dreadful narration
Reviewed: 12-31-23
The writer makes big claims, but he also backs up these claims with well-articulated arguments. I’ve read the author’s work since he first began this project as discrete, loosely connected articles in Bitcoin magazine. I think he makes a good case that many of the pernicious facets of society are made worse by fiat money. My sole complaint is the awful narrator. It must be an AI voice many of the names that are well known in the bitcoin and Austrian economic spaces are painfully mispronounced as are locations and such. There’s a phenomenal narrator in the Bitcoin space - Guy Swann - he really should have narrated this. Unfortunate way to cap off a solid writing effort.
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American Nations
- A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the 11 distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent....
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One of a Kind Masterpiece
- By Theo Horesh on 02-28-13
- American Nations
- A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
- By: Colin Woodard
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
Great History/Terrible Politics
Reviewed: 08-08-20
I conceptualize this book as having two parts. The first part is a very interesting historical reckoning of the “nations” that the author claims make up the US. This first part is well done and the author has found primary resources to support his thesis. The second part of this book is interpolation of political events and extrapolation of potential political trajectories of the nations. This was nearly intolerable. Unless you worship at the Church of Woke this should bother you. The author lets a good/bad framework takeover his political analysis. In short the author spends some time demonizing the “nations” that have conservative leanings. He does highlight some latent mendacity in the politics of these nations, but he actively avoids pointing out mendacity (that is plentiful) in the politics of the “northern nations” and any minority controlled “nations.” For instance my home “nation” of El Norte (in the author’s parlance) is guilty of substantial mendacious transgressions, however presumably to avoid criticizing Hispanics, like me, the author chooses to ONLY address political missteps of the conservative “nations.” There’s no mention for example of the problems that ensue from the liberal programs (such as fraud, waste, abuse, public grift etc.). While much criticism is aimed at conservative “nations” the closest the author gets to criticizing a minority controlled nation is by pointing out that Greenland seeks independence but is financially dependent on the European country of Denmark. That seems like a ripe area for exploring mendacious politics, but the author leaves it alone. I would have preferred a truncated book that simply left modern politics out of it.
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A Time to Betray
- The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- By: Reza Kahlili
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
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A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today's headlines from the Middle East, A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative's memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government.
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Great book, Farsi speakers will hate narrator
- By Johnny on 10-27-13
- A Time to Betray
- The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran
- By: Reza Kahlili
- Narrated by: Richard Allen
Good story irritating narration
Reviewed: 03-21-13
What did you love best about A Time to Betray?
This story is interesting and about a very secretive society in a very secretive country
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Richard Allen?
Someone with a Persian accent should have been cast or alternatively someone that can impersonate a Persian accent. This guy does a terrible job and his fake accent isn't close. I've spent lots of time in the Middle East and have Persian friends. It's just irritating to hear a voice so far off base.
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