Love & Hard Money

We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law.  The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf www.satoshigeneral.com linkedin.com/in/brian-bundy-b30a529

We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law.  The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf www.satoshigeneral.com linkedin.com/in/brian-bundy-b30a529

We continue our reading of Frederic Bastiat's famous essay, The Law.  The full text is available for free here: https://cdn.mises.org/thelaw.pdf www.satoshigeneral.com linkedin.com/in/brian-bundy-b30a529

This is the first part of our reading of Bastiat's The Law with a short introduction by Brian tying the ideas in the essay to the properties inherent in Bitcoin. www.satoshigeneral.com linkedin.com/in/brian-bundy-b30a529

In this opening episode, we introduce a special series on one of the most important political essays ever written — The Law by Frédéric Bastiat, published in 1850 in the final year of his life. Bastiat wrote with one urgent question: what is law actually for ? His answer — that law exists solely to protect life, liberty, and property, and that any law which does otherwise is legalized plunder — is...

LOVE & HARD MONEY — Episode 18: I Do What I Want - Why freedom of money matters more than freedom of speech The Episode in One Line A man in Saskatchewan kept every word of his free speech and lost everything that mattered. The order of our rights is backwards — and this episode is the argument for why. What This Episode Is About Brian makes the case that freedom of money is more fundamental t...

What if the most powerful tool for human dignity in our lifetime isn't a policy or a protest movement — but a money the state can't reach? Brian takes the values of the social justice movement seriously — lifting up the marginalized, protecting the vulnerable, resisting tyranny — and runs them through John Rawls's "veil of ignorance." If you didn't know who you'd...

SHOW NOTES Episode Summary Brian traces the tragedy of the commons from medieval English pastures through Venetian banking to the modern dollar network, arguing that monetary history is the history of shared resources getting captured by whoever is closest to them. He connects this to the deepest pattern in biology — every organism consumes until collapse — and asks what it means that humans are t...

The 30-year mortgage didn't make housing affordable. It made it permanently more expensive. Here's the only thing that actually fixes it. Episode Summary Brian traces the systemic causes of housing unaffordability — from the 30-year mortgage to securitization to the Cantillon effect — arguing that every proposed fix fails because none of them address the monetary premium at the root of t...

Episode Summary Brian traces the arc from evolutionary biology to monetary policy, arguing that the rage and tribalism of modern political life are not caused by cultural failure or moral decline — they are the predictable output of a monetary system that exploits humanity's hardwired fairness instincts while hiding its own role in doing so. Key Concepts Covered Frans de Waal's capuchin...

Episode Summary In this episode, Brian explores a framework from permaculture that expands what we mean by wealth. Drawing on the work of Ethan Roland and Gregory Landua's 2011 paper Regenerative Enterprise , he walks through the eight forms of capital — and argues that sound money and regenerative living aren't competing philosophies. They need each other. He also gets personal: what it...

No one wrote this sermon. No one preached it. But if you pay attention, it's there. In Episode 12, Brian explores one of the most provocative ideas on Love & Hard Money yet: that Bitcoin — without intending to — encodes principles that every major religious and philosophical tradition has tried to teach for thousands of years. Don't steal. Tell the truth. Respect limits. Honor your w...

Episode 11: "The Cost Of A Dollar" Henry Ford believed that if Americans truly understood the banking and monetary system, there would be a revolution before morning. In this primer episode — built to share with the Bitcoin-curious — Brian walks through three acts: how dollars are actually created (the Treasury/Fed/fractional reserve cycle, and the Cantillon Effect that tells you who ben...

Episode 10: Do Tariffs Matter? The tariff debate is one of the most consequential economic conversations of our time — and it's almost entirely missing the point. In this episode, Brian argues that the fight over tariffs is a second-order argument happening inside a fraudulent frame. The real question isn't whether tariffs are good or bad. It's whether free trade is even possible wh...

Why do smart people go quiet when you explain inflation to them? They hear the words. They understand the logic. And then they change the subject. In this episode, Brian explores what's really happening in that moment — and why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's challenge to Soviet citizens in 1974 may be the most relevant framework for understanding Bitcoin's role in the world today. The lie...

Why are young people waiting longer to have kids — and what does that have to do with inflation? In Episode 8 of Love & Hard Money, Brian connects monetary policy to family formation, generational thinking, and the quiet cost of living under a system that punishes saving. Plus: the trap no one talks about on the other side of financial discipline. www.satoshigeneral.com linkedin.com/in/brian-b...

21 million is what makes Bitcoin work — but where did the number come from? Satoshi was too methodical with everything else for us to assume it was arbitrary. In this episode of Love & Hard Money, Brian walks through why mathematical scarcity is different from every other kind of scarcity we've ever had, why our current payment system is essentially a leaky balloon with an evil clown airb...

In this bonus, midweek episode, I read aloud my children's book, The Winds Of Uncertainty. If you would like to follow along with pictures, they are available in the free e-book download on my website www.satoshigeneral.com. About the book: After losing everything to The Winds of Uncertainty, Eldin sets out on a hero’s journey where he discovers the value of hard work, hard money and truth ov...

What if the most important lesson we never teach our kids is what money actually is ? In this episode, Brian shares the story behind The Winds of Uncertainty — his children's book about scarcity, abundance, and the hidden forces that shape our economic lives. He talks about why he hired a Nostr artist and paid in Bitcoin, why he's only sold 10 copies and doesn't care, and why he bel...

Almost everything you've been told about inflation is wrong. In this episode, Brian breaks down the difference between what inflation actually is versus what we're told it is—and why that distinction matters more than you think. You'll discover why your paycheck feels like it buys less every year despite "low" official inflation numbers, why your parents could afford a hou...

This is a bonus episode. I went off script to highlight some of the evil that we are seeing in the world today and to offer a solution to help build a more beautiful and just future.   If you like this format, let me know by subscribing or commenting.  Either way, we will continue with weekly monologues every Tuesday on the thesis that Hard Money allows us to express love to the world beyond our o...

Most of us grew up hearing some version of "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." But what if our entire monetary system is a systematic violation of this golden rule? In this episode, we explore how money printing violates the Non-Aggression Principle—the simple idea that you shouldn't initiate force or fraud against others. As Jack Mallers puts it, "Money is you...

Can hard money constrain governments' ability to finance unpopular wars? In this inaugural episode, we explore a provocative thesis: that money which can't be printed at will—whether gold or Bitcoin—creates democratic accountability by forcing governments to fund wars through direct taxation rather than hidden inflation. We examine the $2.3 trillion cost of the Afghanistan war, current d...