The Peter McCormack Show

Peter McCormack

I’m just a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world.So I speak to smart people about money, power, politics and why things feel the way they do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Peter McCormack Show

Episodes (1000)

Thursday #166 - Freddie New - How Governments Destroy Money and Empires (The Lessons From Rome)
Tuesday #165 - Emmet Connor - The Ideology Slowly Destroying the West
Fri Apr 10th #164 - Liz Truss - Why It Doesn't Matter Who You Vote For

The Peter McCormack Show

Apr 16, 2026
1½ hours
167 MB

Freddie New studied the classics and has spent years obsessing over one question: how does a superpower destroy itself? The answer, he argues, is always the same - it starts with the money. In this conversation we map the fall of Rome directly onto the West today. The Roman denarius lost 97% of its purchasing power over 150 years. The British pound has lost 95% of its in the last century alone. The parallels don't stop there - military overstretch, a dependent population kept loyal by the state, leaders who can't stop the printing even when they know it's...

The Peter McCormack Show

#166 - Freddie New - How Governments Destroy Money and Empires (The Lessons From Rome)

Peter McCormack

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