Piketown Press
What Every Parent Needs to Tell Their Children About Money
Crossing the Rubicon
Your great-grandparents could buy a year at MIT for four hundred dollars. Today it costs sixty-two thousand. The buildings are the same buildings.
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About the book
What changed was the dollar. And nobody told you why.
This is the book every parent needs before the conversation at the edge of the birthday party turns, for the fourth time this year, to how nobody can afford anything anymore. It traces the story of money from Yap Island limestone to the Federal Reserve, from Rome's debased coins to the $39 trillion national debt, and explains what Bitcoin actually is in language that does not require a computer science degree.
This is not a political book. It is a book about physics: the physics of trust, the mechanics of how value gets created and destroyed, and what you can do about it before your children inherit the bill.