Discussing How The Dollar Became The Hyperpower Currency

Discussing How The Dollar Became The Hyperpower Currency

Alex Gladstein provides a historical recount of how the United States rug pulled the entire world and asserted the dollar as the dominant global currency.Watch This Episode on YouTubeWatch/Listen To This Episode:BitcoinTVRumbleSpotifyAppleGoogleLibsynOvercastRead The Full Transcript Below:[00:01:29] AG: I based my essay, in large, part on a book called Super Imperialism, written in 1972, one year after the US went off the gold standard and defaulted on its debt. It was written by a guy named Michael Hudson. He used to work on Wall Street, and then he went into academia.He's definitely....


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