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Excerpt from The Economist:
The fate of ancient coins offers uncomfortable lessons about dollar dominance
The coins largely moved one way, from Rome to India, and goods moved the other. Whereas Romans bought Indian wares, Indians accumulated monetary claims on Rome. Evidence points to high external demand for Roman assets: the coins bore a particular pattern, came in sealed bags and travelled via…
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"we are at the brink of a total collapse of the whole system" - Marc Friedrich [00:01:13]
"every crisis since the late 80s Greenspan started it Bernanke all of the FED chairmen did the same... they never solved the problems they're always just put money on it and pushed it in the future" - Marc Friedrich…
"First it was the Dutch Gilder then the British pound and now the world is asking if the US dollar is next." - Dr. Joeri Schasfoort [00:00:00]
"The crux of it is that money had essentially gotten too easy. This encouraged over borrowing by both the provincial governments and the East India Company." - Dr. Joeri Schasfoort…
"If governments wanted to go to gold they already could... the only thing that matters is the capital stack of fiat." - Brent Johnson [00:18:15]
"Gold is the natural historical hedge against... credit excess that may be used to finance wars that are destructive of the capital stock." - John Butler…
"The only way to truly stabilize this system is for everyone to be willing to move to a global monetary equilibrium where the reference point is not one that can be printed, devalued, or defaulted on by anyone else. And that's gold." - John Butler [01:11:09]
"The United States has done more to tear down the rules-based order in the last 16 months…
Michael Wan: We see the Indian Rupee as vulnerable and USD/INR likely rising above 95 levels if the Iran and Middle East conflict is sustained and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed with Brent oil prices returning back to the US$100/bbl at the time of our writing:
Deutsche Bank Research Institute series, authored by Marion Laboure, Ph.D. and Camilla Siazon, explores five global chokepoints reshaping economies: currencies, critical minerals, chips, cables and cloud.
Chapter 1: Currency, crypto and payment infrastructure – in a nutshell - The contest has changed: it’s…
"Money is debt. Banks create money, and that includes the Bank of England doing so for the government." - Richard J. Murphy (Defining the fundamental nature of currency) [00:00:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKLgUDgnH0&t=0h0m19s)
"Money is not an object; money is always a promise to pay. That's all it is." - Richard J. Murphy (On the immateriality of money)…
World reserve currency
'On the second question — on whether the dollar will weaken further — who knows. As the old joke goes, God invented FX strategists to make economists seem accurate.'
"FT: About 54 per cent of all export invoices are still denominated in dollars. In finance the greenback’s reign is even more supreme. Roughly 60 per cent of all international loans and deposits are in dollars, and **70 per cent of…
"What this is about is the** greatest rip-off in history**... The truth is that depressions are not normal, they are contrived. The truth is that nations don't need a national debt." — Narrator, Opening Monologue [00:04]
"Mayer Rothschild soon learned that loaning money to governments and kings was more profitable than loaning to private individuals. Not only…
"Inside of the Japanese head, these brains like our brains can do good things or bad things all depending on the kind of ideas that are put inside." — US Occupation Film Narrator (On re-educating post-war Japan) [00:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY&t=205s) "If it were not for window guidance, we would compete until harakiri." — Japanese Banker (On the necessity of the Central Bank’s…
"[It’s] perhaps not very popular to say this, but the truth is we don't need central banks. The central banks came about originally in every country as a cartel of the big banks." - Richard Werner (Context: Critique of central banking structures) [00:00:00]
"Interest rates are the smoke screen... to divert everyone's attention. It is the alibi." - Richard Werner…
"[Alexander Hamilton] was the primary architect of the American financial system... a system that is still the envy of the world." - Consuelo Mack (Introduction) [00:00:15]
"Hamilton’s insight was that a national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing." - Richard Sylla (Discussing the Report on Public Credit)…
History of #Gold Standard In America | #Money #Currency
"00:00:00 Everybody thinks the US dollar is still as good as gold and it hasn't been since 1971." - Mike Maloney (Context: Introduction to monetary misconceptions)
"00:00:50 This is what gives governments the ability to start this scam in the first place where they print these receipts for gold and then they can print…
Bloomberg : The **greenback’s **portion of international transactions rose to 50.5% in December, up from 46.8% a month earlier, according to the latest data compiled by global financial messaging service Swift, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. That’s the highest share since 2023 when the Belgium-headquartered consortium revised how it collects the transaction data.
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