Dr. Thorsten Polleit worked as an economist for a large investment bank from 2000 to 2012, and 12 years for an international precious metals trading house. Since 2014, Thorsten is honorary professor of economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His fields of interests are monetary and capital market theory, the history of economic thought and epistemology. Thorsten is founder and president of the Ludwig von Mises Institut Deutschland and Adjunct Scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, US Alabama. Thorsten has published many articles in refereed journals and written a couple of books (the last one being “The Global Currency Plot”, 2023).