Special Episode: Warwick Powell on How To Build A New Global Currency
After the BRICS meeting in Kazan, a picture of a bundle of fake BRICS banknotes began to circulate online. Right up to a picture of Putin holding one, like a mobster holds a cigar.
The intent was mocking. But while the end goal of the kind of paper that rappers shove into g-strings is still a long way off - in the background, the bureaucratic elves of BRICS were chipping away at the dense, dull, paperwork of a new payments system.
This was never going to be a big bang. More like popping the world’s biggest roll of bubble wrap.
After all, like the nuclear secrets themselves, the mechanism for…
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