The Financial Coup Nobody Saw Coming: Is the World Quietly Replacing America?

On The Record with Christian Briggs · Jul 21, 2026 · 52m

For nearly eighty years, the United States has occupied the center of the global financial system. The dollar became the world's reserve currency, Wall Street evolved into the deepest capital market on Earth, and American financial infrastructure quietly became the operating system for global commerce. But what if the rest of the world is no longer asking how to participate in that system? What if it's asking how to build an entirely new one?

In this episode of On the Record, Christian Briggs examines one of the most overlooked geopolitical stories unfolding today: the quiet race to reduce…