Jon Mallia: From Supply Chain Crisis To Bitcoin, Joe Anthony Thinks Wide In A Way Few Do
Joe Anthony Debono was advertised to me as an unconventional authority on Bitcoin and currency in general. A walking encyclopedia with degrees in history, Latin, Ancient Greek and Distributed Ledger Technology.
The man who linked us up was financial crime lawyer extraordinaire Charles ‘shirts-for-days’ Cassar, who’s appeared on the Podcast himself and also pens the weekly running blog Flus Nefasti.
Charles promised I’d be deeply compelled, educated, entertained and confused by Joe Anthony, all at once. The extra hit of Ritalin I gulped during break, says Charles was probably on the money with his prediction.
Joe Anthony has a remarkable ability to connect the dots across epochs, exploding the silos that segregate disciplines as he cruises overhead. He started off by explaining just how much trouble the world supply chain currently finds itself in.
Then he abruptly sprung back to a time when man hadn’t yet conceived the concept of money. That was the first pair of dots he connected. Once that bond was forged, Joe then sauntered his way back through various eras in recorded history for two hours, until he returned full circle to today’s precarious predicament.
In the process he explains the concept of inflation in a way that even a neophyte like myself can easily gather, extols the genius of the Roman Republic and its government, and gives me a history lesson in the role inflation played in the demise of a number of empires – all the while casually quoting Cicero verbatim and handling the whiskey like a f*cking rockstar.
In a very crammed nutshell, Joe Anthony’s thesis postulates that centralisation of government will eventually and surely yield horrible societal outcomes, with FIAT currency headlining the list of disasters.
Power, according to Joe, must be increasingly fragmented and dispersed in order to prevent small groups of power-famished individuals from enslaving the rest of us.
Do I agree with everything Joe Anthony said on the Podcast? Probably not. And I say ‘probably’ because there was just too much new content in there for me to process fully with any level of confidence.
What I am however immensely grateful for, is that much in the same way Charles had elucidated Malta’s economic history in a way I had never been exposed to prior, Joe Anthony drew analogous parallels, links and correlations between episodes throughout human history that I’d never pieced together before.
The man has the capability of thinking wide, in a way that very few do.
Joe Anthony is the gem I had no clue I was looking for and his episode will be published tonight on Lovin Malta.
I wholeheartedly recommend you tune in.
You can watch Jon Mallia’s podcast with Joe Anthony Debono on Lovin Malta’s Facebook page at 9pm tonight from the following link