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A meditation on fear as fiat's real enforcement mechanism – the psychological friction that outweighs any credible physical enforcement, and why "strength in numbers" is less a rallying cry than a straightforward property of the transition already underway.
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111 minScott Bessent's Bond Market Shenanigans (with Peruvian Bull)
A macroeconomic analyst walks through the machinery beneath modern money – how bonds became collateral, how central banks became the buyer of last resort, and how Japan's four-decade experiment previews the pressures now surfacing in Washington.
60 minIs This AGI? (OpenAI GPT-6 Astra)
A frontier model lands, and the reflex is to ask what it means for jobs.
79 minIs Gen Z Cooked? (with Julian Figueroa)
A conversation on the puzzle of translating sound money into a language a young, disenfranchised generation can actually hear.
67 minWhat Comes After the Nation State?
An episode-length inquiry into what happens to the idea of "the country" once the money that underwrites it no longer requires a central issuer.
66 minThere Is No "They", Only You
The episode extends the familiar "it's not you, it's the money" frame into its harder companion claim: no external villain sustains the debt-based system — it is upheld by ordinary human incentives to claim visible credit and diffuse invisible cost.
66 minWelcome to Infinite AI Entertainment...
A live inflection point translated through the show's frame: video can now be generated faster than it can be watched, and Ricky Zhang sits with what that means for attention, advertising, shared reality, and the incentives that shape all three.
Less noise.
More perspective.
A thousand disconnected headlines. One civilizational transition. Age of Abundance connects the daily story to the forces underneath it.
Hosted by Ricky Zhang. Live, curious, and grounded in first principles.
Join the next show01Money
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What changes when the money changes?
From debt-based money to Bitcoin. The incentives shaping our lives, and what a different foundation makes possible.
02Intelligence
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What happens when intelligence becomes abundant?
AI, falling costs, and the possibilities that open when more people can think, create, and build.
03Energy
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What could a world with more energy look like?
The physical foundation of prosperity. Exploring the relationship between energy, technology, and human flourishing.
04Humanity
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What is all this progress actually for?
Time, meaning, community, and agency. What we get to restore when survival is no longer the only story.
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