The conversation has moved from an exploration of The Wizard of Oz as an allegory of the power struggle between the populists of the American heartlands and the east-coast financial elites in the 1890s to Hitler’s audacious, and failed, scheme to destroy the British economy through airdrops of counterfeit banknotes. There has been a discussion on the role of the Scottish economist John Law in precipitating revolution in France through the Mississippi bubble and an explanation of why Bitcoin is the “Esperanto of money”. There have been segways into monetary policy, Greek literature, and even the strained relationship between economists…

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