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Nixon ending dollar-gold redemption in 1971 turns the dollar, in Jiang's words, into a Ponzi scheme whose value depends on people wanting to use it.
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Nixon
Jiang says Nixon creates petrodollar demand by making Saudi oil payable only in U.S.
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Jiang says Nixon creates petrodollar demand by making Saudi oil payable only in U.S. dollars, so anyone who wants oil must hold dollars.
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The U.S. dollar's reserve role moves from gold backing at Bretton Woods to Nixon's 1971 break and petrodollar demand through oil pricing.
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"...all its gold from the United States. So, in 1971, what Nixon does is say, you know what? Here's the secret, guys. We actually..."
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"It's only valuable because people want to use it. So, now Nixon has to go and create demand for the U.S. dollar, right? So,..."
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"...you have nothing to worry about, right? Well, in 1971, Richard Nixon says, screw that, we're not backed by gold anymore, you can use..."
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"...scene, uh, basically in the modern times after 1971, when Richard Nixon, uh, ended the dollar's convertibility to gold."
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"...new global enforcer, enforcer. And so almost immediately, Henry Kissinger and Nixon went, went to China to open China, right? And the Chinese just..."
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"...reached out to the Americans, Jimmy Carter. Mao Zedong welcomed Richard Nixon to Beijing. In the 1980s, start this massive cooperation between America and..."
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"...what's amazing is that while they were on the moon, President Nixon and the astronauts had a phone conversation."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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