Dutch Republic organization

“And when they bring their goods back to Europe, you've got competition. So the prices are going down and down, and the profits are just disappearing. So seven of these companies get together and they merge into the VOC, which is the Dutch E…”

“So what else is going on here? The Bank of Amsterdam is the world's first central bank. It was created in 1609 and basically what it did is it offered merchants a fixed stable value currency. The Gilder becomes the global default reserve cu…”

“They were already on their way down, but they were still a world power. They were past peak, but still strong enough, basically, without them. They talk about how France and Russia helped the American Revolution. The Dutch are equally as re…”

“would bastardize or improve upon some of their ideas and how that's had such a profound impact on our everyday lives today everything we're living through today stems from you know these thinkers well what's interesting is you can see the u…”