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"Alexander Hamilton called it the ancient dollar it was already an established uh uh unit of measure it was already an established currency well before the United States" - Brendan Greeley [00:06:55]
"monetary sovereignty is very difficult to achieve and constantly under attack hard one and hard to hold on to" - Brendan Greeley…
"my frustration with this idea of fiat is that it robs us of the power of analysis We can understand money We really can For almost all of our money sits as you guys already pointed out on the ledger of a commercial bank" - Brendan Greeley [00:00:00]
"We did not have a new country We did not call our currency the Washington We called it the…
"it's probably one of the greatest myths of economic history that women have spent most of history as housewives" - Victoria Bateman [00:09:20]
"once you do start to look for women you find them everywhere history is filled with wonderful remarkable women bankers merchants entrepreneurs" - Victoria Bateman…
"In my opinion about three quarters of it would be excellent if only the name of Great Britain was substituted for Germany." - John Maynard Keynes [00:12:28]
"When the facts change, I change my mind." - John Maynard Keynes [00:12:35]
"Why are we going to just keep going on about gold convertible exchange? Can't we…
"This did not prescribe that Saudi Arabia has to trade oil in U.S. dollars, but it really helped establish the US dollar as a main currency for global oil trade." - David Meier [00:01:21]
"The drop in oil production and exports was caused by the national oil company completely underinvesting in its infrastructure." - Norbert Rücker…
"Money starts from a set of ideas. It starts from the underlying system of credit and clearing. And then what is used as a token to represent that can actually be anything at all. It could be gold coins or it could be stone discs." - Felix Martin [00:00:00]
"People say it makes the world go round. But the irony is it's also the most successful…
"they would just come up with a plausible sounding name create a bank note that was beautiful and start issuing notes and people would accept them i mean you know what are you going to do check every single note that comes across the store counter i mean people tried but it's kind of a fool's errand" - Stephen Mihm [00:00:00]
"a historian of this…
"Because we are not letting the prices adjust, what is happening is quantities are adjusting... foreign investors are continuing to take money out of the Indian financial markets, they have taken out about $21 billion since the war started." - Rajeshwari Sengupta [00:09:19]
"How can you compete in the 26th year of the 21st century by laws that were…
"If we don't have a million dollars by 10:00 a.m we're dead." - Unidentified New York Partners of Jay Cooke & Co. [00:41:49]
"Like Moses and Washington and Lincoln and Grant I have been I firmly believe God's chosen instrument especially in the financial work of saving the union." - Jay Cooke…
Note: Recorded December 7, 2025 at GoldRepublic's headquarters as part of the 15-year anniversary series "The Future of Gold." Published on 20 May 2026.
"You know, 81 years after the the start of the Breton Woods conference, which was the start of the dollar system... we entered the big reset." - Willem Middelkoop [00:02:05]
"Printing money is practically…
- By Analysts Mallika Sachdeva & Michael Hsueh
1. The Core Thesis: The End of "The End of History" In 1989, political scientist Francis Fukuyama famously argued that humanity had reached "the end of history," predicting the absolute triumph of Western economic and political liberalism under a unipolar global order led by an uncontested United States. In the two decades that followed, global trade exploded…
The Financial Times Alphaville (FTAV) article focuses on the "petrodollar" system and addresses the recurring narrative surrounding its alleged collapse or decline, particularly in light of contemporary geopolitical developments (such as discussions around OPEC dynamics and country diversification).
The article counters the alarmist theories regarding the end of the U.S. dollar's hegemony. Its main arguments…
"Stable coins and swap lines are the onetwo punch that is going to mean that the dollar doomers the self-loathing Americans and the fiat fatalists are going to be wrong for years to come and why the demise of the American empire is not as imminent as many people think..." - Brent Johnson [00:00:04]
"The United States is in the driver's seat on…
"The weaponization of the Strait of Hormuz is not just a regional crisis; it is a profound exogenous shock to the global inflationary baseline." - Ken Rogoff [00:12:45]
"Chess teaches you to look five moves ahead; unfortunately, global economic policy is currently operating on a one-move time horizon." - Ken Rogoff…
"When a king came to the throne one of the very first things he did was to cancel everyone's debts... it's also something that kind of cleans the slate of all the problems that had existed prior to his reign." - Amanda Podany [00:00:00]
"Those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it and lose money." - Robin Wigglesworth…
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"We've shifted a lot of the leverage from the private sector up to the public sector... this has implications for nominal GDP, wealth concentration, inflation levels, and market performance." - Lyn Alden [00:02:33] "If you raise rates in the face of inflation, you do slow down bank lending to a certain degree, but then you blow out…
"The uncertainties we're dealing with today are bigger than some of the numbers that we used to deal with in the past in terms of changes." - Jeff Baird [00:00:56]
"We see this slow-moving car crash... moving broadly from Asia to Europe and then ultimately to the Americas." - Jeff Baird [00:06:43]
"The physical…
"The dollar wasn't an invention. It was not a creation of the United States. They were adopting something that already existed." — Brendan Greeley, quoting Jefferson's own correspondence
"Hamilton and Jefferson decided to base the new monetary system of a new country on a Spanish coin with a German name. We joined an existing global dollar system. We did not create the dollar system. Our adoption of the dollar…
The Financial Times article, "Six lessons from history’s greatest financial crises," argues that while the world of finance often suffers from historical amnesia, the past provides a vital blueprint for understanding modern instability. From the "clay tablets" of Babylon to the "synthetic risk transfers" of today, the mechanics of collapse follow remarkably consistent patterns.
Here is an insightful summary of…
Debt sustainability has stemmed from symbiosis between savers and dissavers | Trust or bust: Megatrend 2025 | New York Life Investments
Global Payments Report 2026 | Worldpay
Allianz: In summary
The US dollar emerged as the last remaining safe haven standing amid the war in Iran. However, this situation is increasingly conditional and regime-dependent. Since the outbreak of hostilities in Iran, only the US dollar provided genuine safe haven protection for global equities. Interestingly, gold, the Swiss franc, the Japanese yen and government bonds all failed to deliver. This…
"If we had like a protocol for dollars on the internet... we could have a way to store and move value instantly globally frictionlessly at no cost ultimately." - Jeremy Allaire [00:01:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyobeqMdbeI&t=1m4s)
"The great financial crisis was an example of 30x leverage, 12x leverage, 14x leverage against these sort of base layer." - Jeremy Allaire…