137 Countries Are Building Digital Currencies—Is This the Beginning of the End for the U.S. Dollar?

On The Record with Christian Briggs · Jun 10, 2026 · 51m

For more than eighty years, the U.S. dollar has stood at the center of the global financial system. International trade, energy markets, sovereign reserves, and global banking have all revolved around a dollar-based framework that gave the United States extraordinary economic and geopolitical influence. But what if that system is beginning to change?

In this explosive episode, Christian Briggs examines one of the most important—and least understood—developments unfolding in the world today: the global race toward Central Bank Digital Currencies, or CBDCs, and the growing effort by China…