A closer look
You’d think the guy who helped design the Euro would be a massive cheerleader for central banking, but Bernard Lietaer actually thought our financial system was a disaster waiting to happen. He compared national fiat currencies to ecological monocultures—highly efficient but prone to sudden, catastrophic collapse. His solution? A sprawling ecosystem of complementary, corporate, and local currencies running concurrently. Essentially, the ultimate insider looked at the global economy and diagnosed it as structurally unhinged.
