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The Compass: Money, Money, Money: Money, money, money: Value

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Money, money, money: Value

11/05/2022 GMT

Money, Money, Money

BBC World Service - The Compass, Money, Money, Money, Money, money, money: Value

Broadcaster and trust expert Rachel Botsman asks what is the value of money?

In the second episode Rachel explores the subject of value. Beginning with the volatility of Bitcoin, she goes on to find out about growing up in Brazil's years of hyperinflation, living in the gift economy of an Indonesian island and whether money is the root of happiness.

Producers: Frank Stirling and Leo Schick

(Photo: A representation of the virtual cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Credit: Edgar Su/Reuters)

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The Compass: Money, Money, Money

Broadcaster and trust expert Rachel Botsman asks should we put our faith in money?

Do we still have faith in money? Trust expert and Fellow at the Said Business School at Oxford University, Rachel Botsman, talks to people from all over the world about their relationship with cash, with banks, with currencies, with credit cards and crypto. A series about faith in financial institutions, the psychology of spending, and the morality of economics, in this first episode she’ll be asking how much we should trust money. With politician and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, economist and author Eshwar Prasad and investor and entrepreneur Soulaima Gourani.

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