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In 1944, 44 countries sat down to rebuild the world.
One country walked away with a superpower.
Everyone else got a slow leak in their wealth.
Most people have never heard of Bretton Woods.
But it quietly explains why the U.S. dominates global finance
—and why your money buys less every year.
This wasn’t an accident.
It was designed that way.

JULY 1944: WHEN THE RULES WERE WRITTEN
World War II was ending.
Europe was rubble. Asia was exhausted.
America stood alone:
• No bombed cities
• No destroyed factories
• And 75% of the world’s gold
So 730 delegates from 44 nations gathered at a luxury resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
Official goal: Create stability.
Reality: America wrote the rulebook.

THE AGREEMENT THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
The deal sounded reasonable:
The U.S. dollar becomes the world’s reserve currencyOther currencies peg themselves to the dollarThe U.S. promises to exchange dollars for gold at $35 per ounce
To the rest of the world, dollars were “as good as gold.”
But there was a flaw nobody fully grasped:
Only one country could print the currency everyone else needed.

THE HIDDEN ADVANTAGE
Once Bretton Woods kicked in:
• Oil was bought in dollars
• Global trade ran on dollars
• Rebuilding nations needed dollars
The entire world depended on a currency controlled by the U.S.
This gave America something economists later called “exorbitant privilege.”
America could:
Print money to pay for wars and spendingRun massive deficitsPush inflation abroad
Other countries had to earn dollars.
America just created them.

THE FATAL DESIGN FLAW
In the 1960s, economist Robert Triffin spotted the problem:
To supply the world with dollars, the U.S. must run deficits.
But the more dollars it prints, the less gold it has to back them.
Translation:
The system only worked as long as nobody asked for their gold back.
And eventually… they did.

1965–1971: THE MASK COMES OFF
France ran the numbers.
President Charles de Gaulle realized the truth:
America had printed far more dollars than it could redeem.
So France demanded its gold.
3,000 tons.
Germany, Japan, and Switzerland followed.
Gold poured out of U.S. vaults.
The promise couldn’t be kept.

AUGUST 15, 1971: THE DEAL IS BROKEN
President Nixon went on television and announced:
“The gold window is closed.”
No vote.
No global meeting.
No consent.
The U.S. simply walked away.
Overnight, the world was holding dollars backed by nothing.

THE SHOCKING PART
The dollar never lost its throne.
Why?
Because the world was already locked in:
• Oil priced in dollars
• Trade settled in dollars
• Debt denominated in dollars
Escape was too costly.
So the system continued—just without gold.

WHY THIS STILL MATTERS
Bretton Woods never truly ended.
It mutated.
Now the dollar is backed by:
• Confidence
• Military power
• And habit
And America prints more every year.
Each time it does:
Your savings lose purchasing powerPrices riseWages fall behind
You’re paying for the privilege—just not by choice.

THE REAL CHOICE
Fiat currencies are designed to decay.
That’s not a theory. It’s a feature.
That’s why I don’t save in paper money.
I hold:
• Gold
• Silver
• Real estate
• Businesses
Assets that survive when currencies don’t.
In 1944, 44 countries made a deal.
America got the money printer.
Everyone else got inflation.
That deal is still shaping your life today.
The only question is:
Will you keep playing a game that was rigged from the start?
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Most People Think Iraq, Iran & Venezuela Are About Oil.
They’re Wrong.
By Robert Kiyosaki — 04.01.2025
Most people believe Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela are about oil.
That’s the surface story.
The real story is China.
And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Here’s the question almost no one asks:
What does Iraq in the early 2000s have in common with China today?
It’s not oil.
It’s control of the system around the oil.
Back then, Iraq wasn’t just exporting crude.
It was challenging how oil was priced and how payments were settled.
Iraq began moving away from the U.S. dollar system.
That was the moment Iraq stopped being labeled a “problem nation”
and became something far more dangerous:
A systemic threat.
Fast forward to toda
China doesn’t need to invade countries to control energy.
China controls oil without firing a shot — by controlling the exit routes.
China’s leverage comes from:
Long-term supply agreements
Oil-for-debt structures
Shadow shipping networks
Non-dollar settlement systems
Iran and Venezuela are the clearest examples.
• Iran exports roughly 1.4–1.6 million barrels per day, with the majority quietly flowing to China at discounted prices through off-the-books channels.
• Venezuela ships around 700,000–900,000 barrels per day, with China acting as both primary buyer and financier via debt-backed oil deals.
That’s not energy policy.
That’s geopolitical leverage.
China wasn’t just buying oil.
China was controlling the only escape route left after U.S. sanctions hit.
So what’s really happening now?
The United States isn’t “starting wars.”
It’s breaking control chains.
Step by step.
Sanctions didn’t target countries — they targeted systems:
Shipping firms
Insurance providers
Ports
Refiners
Payment rails
That’s not military warfare.
That’s financial warfare.
Then came seizures, blockades, and pressure at sea — the one place oil can’t hide.
And finally, political shock.
Because once you control:
Who ships the oil
Who insures it
Who settles the payments
You don’t need to own the oil fields.
You own the system that decides who gets paid.
That was the lesson of Iraq.
And it’s the lesson playing out again today.
This has never been about oil in the ground.
It’s about:
Currency dominance
Trade settlement power
Control over global cash flow
Oil is just the bloodstream.
The real battle is over who controls the heart.
That’s why Iran matters.
That’s why Venezuela matters.
And that’s why China is at the center of this — whether the headlines admit it or not.

The rich don’t argue politics.
They study systems.
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Beca#use when systems shift,
fortunes shift with them.

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