Jay gives a good explanation of what was going on back in the 1960s when Nixon canceled gold's fixed price. The part about the floor of the vault in England collapsing is pure fiction, or at least I wasn't able to confirm it.
He has a good section about inflation starting just at 11:08.
I suspect the main reason governments want to have a big stock pile of gold had got nothing to do with monty. It's so that when they feel like throwing their weight around, they have some weight to throw, and nothing throws weight better than gold.
Entertaining and action packed. French tactical unit chasing down terrorists. Turns out the terrorist mastermind is one of their own who got pissed about something and plots revenge with a capital R. We also get the usual Netflix domestic drama. If you are going to have kids, don't have just one, have a bunch. That is not always possible, but if you can, that's the way to go. That way when one of them comes to an unhappy end, you will still have several others to share your misery.
I give it three stars. The first hour was drivel, people whining about life. The dialog was crap.
After that, things picked up. Odysseus and his crew have a series of unfortunate encounters with a succession of vicious beasts and people. At every encounter Odysseus loses some men.
The wooden horse that the Greeks built was very impressive, but leaving it on the beach doesn't seem like a good idea. Seems more likely that the Trojans would just burn in in place. The scene with dozen or two of men packed inside this horse for some number of days was well done. But not too well done, we don't want to hear about all the shit accumulating in the bottom of the horse. Couldn't the Trojans have smelt it?
The cyclops was impressively grotesque. Circe was very talented and very nasty.
I don't ever recall hearing about ten foot tall armored soldiers in The Odyssey. Did the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica wander onto the wrong set?
There was one scene where something big was reaching down from somewhere above the ship and grabbing men from the boat. It eventually retreated into a cave high in a cliff overlooking the water. We never had a clear view of what it was.
The scene at the end where Odysseus takes on the courtyard full of courtiers looked like every action movie I've ever scene. Is he really going to kill 200 men all by his lonesome?
