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Only Bitcoin Can Stop Government Corruption | Peter McCormack

By Danny Knowles

Aired Jan 8, 2026 · 1h 43m · Last boosted Jan 11, 2026

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Peter McCormack is back on the show for a conversation on power, the state of the UK, and why the system is broken. We get into how debt, inflation, and centralised government incentives have hollowed out public services, destroyed the middle class, and turned politics into a fight over power rather than outcomes. Peter explains why inflation is the real tax, why asset inflation benefits elites at the expense of everyone else, and why neither the left nor the right is willing or able to fix the underlying problem. THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS: ANCHORWATCH <...

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