Jeff Booth: Author “The Price of Tomorrow" on Deflation | SALT Talks #182

Jeff Booth is the author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future. Jeff is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption. We live in an extraordinary time. "Bitcoin will keep on growing and I think one day other currencies will be pegged to bitcoin. I think it's highly likely that bitcoin becomes the reserve currency." Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance-and they are profoundly deflationary. Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology era when labor and capital were inextricably linked, an era that counted on growth and inflation, an era where we made money from inefficiency. ————————————————————————— To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/talks Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.