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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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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “How Money Is Created and How This Makes Some Rich and Some Poor”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: dollar, supply, create, value, bank. Deze video bevat 45 zinnen en 557 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 4:06. De spreker praat in een gelijkmatig tempo van ongeveer 136 woorden per minuut, prettig om te shadowen. 86% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 8 van de 45 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 15 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

WoordUitspraakBetekenis
banker zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbæŋkəː/bankier
bureaucrat zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/bureaucraat
circulation zelfstandig naamwoord/ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/omloop
loser zelfstandig naamwoord/luzɚ/verliezer
childcare zelfstandig naamwoordkinderopvang
cryptocurrency zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/cryptogeld, cryptovaluta
evaporate werkwoord/ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/verdampen
grandparent zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/grootouder
inflate werkwoord/ɪnˈfleɪt/opblazen
squeeze werkwoord/skwiːz/drukken, klemmen
investor zelfstandig naamwoord/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/investeerder, belegger
borrow werkwoord/ˈbɑɹ.oʊ/lenen, ontlenen
mansion zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈmæn.ʃən/landhuis
approve werkwoord/əˈpɹuːv/goedkeuren
classroom zelfstandig naamwoord/ˈklɑːsɹʊm/klaslokaal

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

WoordBetekenis
check out werkwoordonderzoeken
go down werkwoordafdalen

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

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

Uitspraak om op te letten

  • De klanken “sh” en “zh”: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/
  • Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: circulation /ˌsɝkjʊˈleɪʃən/, cryptocurrency /ˈkɹɪp.toʊˌkɝ.ən.si/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

  • Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: squeeze /skwiːz/, approve /əˈpɹuːv/
  • /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: banker /ˈbæŋkəː/, bureaucrat /ˈbjʊɹəkɹæt/, evaporate /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt/, grandparent /ˈɡɹæn(d)pɛəɹənt/, mansion /ˈmæn.ʃən/
  • /w/ — met ronde lippen: woohoo /wuːˈhuː/, unaware /ˌʌnəˈwɛɚ/, squeeze /skwiːz/

Zo oefen je met deze video

  1. Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
  2. Spreek zin voor zin na op normale snelheid en herhaal elke zin tot je ritme gelijk is aan dat van de spreker.
  3. Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als banker, bureaucrat, circulation.

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Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.

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