Jerry Robinson and Michael Oliver return. New guest Nav Dhaliwal joins us. In 1971 Nixon detached gold from the U.S. dollar and the international monetary system. To maintain demand for a now intrinsically worthless dollar, the mighty U.S. military was used to demand all international oil sales be paid for in dollars. With the ability to print trillions of dollars, not only did Americans live beyond their means but funded the greatest military incursion/regime change, empire building the world had ever known. But now adversarial nations like China, Russia and Iran are threatening the petrodol
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