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This is the gold price since the 1970s, and that's total money supplied by the US Federal Reserve.
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Here we have new home prices and money supply.
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That's the S&P 500, which tracks the shares of top American businesses and money supply.
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And finally, the Bitcoin price, here on a log scale, and money supply.
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If gold, real estate, stocks and cryptocurrencies all go up with the total cash in circulation, the value of each dollar must go down,
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which raises some crucial questions.
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Why is money losing its value?
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Who creates it?
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Why do we keep printing more?
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And who are the winners and losers of this system?
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The moment you save money, it starts losing value.
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This happens because bankers and government officials keep printing new money. And
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so the total US dollar supply increased from around 1.4 trillion in 1975 to around 129 trillion by the end of 2024,
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and with all the new money, each individual bill lost value.
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To put this in perspective, suppose your grandparents had, very generously, put $10,000 into a piggy bank for you back in 1975.
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It'd still be $10,000 today and would buy you a tiny car.
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If they had exchanged that same amount for gold it would be worth $200,000 today and get you a very fancy sports car.
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Invested in a fund holding shares in the top 500 US public companies it would have grown to 2.8 million dollars.
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You could own lots of cars and a mansion for that.
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So how exactly is money created?
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There are two major forces bankers and and bureaucrats.
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Bankers create new money whenever they take out a loan.
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After they approve a credit, they literally just type the newly created money into your account.
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Woohoo!
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The only requirement, banks must hold about 10% of all the new money they create.
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And when you repay your loan, the money evaporates again.
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Government officials like to spend more than they actually have.
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and so they tend to borrow new money from central banks, fund managers or foreign investors.
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If such a deal happens with the central bank, it just prints new money.
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In 2020, the US Federal Reserve created close to $4 trillion this way,
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which meant that the total dollars in circulation grew by about 26% in a single year.
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Bureaucrats then typically take this new money, invest it in projects, or give it to particular people and special interest groups.
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All this new money, so the theory goes, gets people spending and hence creates jobs and economic growth.
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But there are not only winners.
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The first losers are those who hoard their cash, unaware that all the new money inflates the price of housing, shares and other assets.
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Second are those who have no access to buy other assets or efficient capital markets.
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And last are those who earn too little to invest in housing, gold or stocks.
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This last group often faces a double squeeze.
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They see rent, food and childcare costs rise faster than their paychecks, while wealth-building assets stay out of reach.
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But what do you think?
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How could we solve this problem?
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Should we just stop printing new money?
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Share your thoughts in the comments below.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “How Money Is Created and How This Makes Some Rich and Some Poor”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: dollar, supply, create, value, bank. Questo video contiene 45 frasi e 557 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:06. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 136 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Il 86% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare. 8 delle sue 45 frasi sono domande: un buon esercizio per l’intonazione interrogativa e le risposte brevi.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
banker sostantivo/ˈbæŋkəː/banchiere, banchiero
bureaucrat sostantivo/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/burocrate
circulation sostantivo/ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/circolazione
loser sostantivo/luzɚ/perdente
cryptocurrency sostantivo/ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/criptovaluta
evaporate verbo/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/evaporare
grandparent sostantivo/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/nonno, nonna
inflate verbo/ɪnˈfleɪt/enfiare, gonfiare
unaware aggettivo/ˌʌnəˈwɛɚ/ignaro, inconsapevole
squeeze verbo/skwiːz/spremere, stringere
investor sostantivo/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/investitore, investitrice
borrow verbo/ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/prendere in prestito
mansion sostantivo/ˈmæn.ʃən/reggia, dimora
approve verbo/əˈpɹuːv/approvare
classroom sostantivo/ˈklɑːsɹʊm/classe, aula

I phrasal verb che sentirai

ParolaSignificato
check out verboinvestigare
take out verbocavare, cacciare

Frasi da ripetere

Frasi brevi e complete del video che puoi riutilizzare nella conversazione di tutti i giorni:

  • Why do we keep printing more?
  • How could we solve this problem?
  • Should we just stop printing new money?

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • I suoni “sh” e “zh”: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/
  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, cryptocurrency /ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: bureaucrat /ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/, grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, inflate /ɪnˈfleɪt/, paycheck /ˈpeɪ.t͡ʃɛk/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: banker /ˈbæŋkəː/, bureaucrat /ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/, grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come banker, bureaucrat, circulation.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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