Merryn Talks Money: John Law, The Gambler Who Invented Modern Money (Part 1)
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Hello, Odd Lotz listeners. I'm Jill Weisenthal.
And I'm Tracey Allaway.
We hope you're enjoying your holiday season, and we're taking a little break ourselves. We wanted to bring you an episode from one of our fellow podcasts here at Bloomberg.
A special holiday present, if you will. This is from the Marin Talks Money podcast, which is hosted by Marin Somerset Web and John Steppek, and it is all about one of the most interesting historical economic figures. It's John Law.
Yeah. That's right. So John Law, eighteenth century gambler, murderer, economic visionary. I think people say he is sort of the mind behind fiat currency as we know it today. So his influence is still felt, and check out the episode.
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