Bretton Woods Conference

Um, I mean, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's, we have to be very careful here.

Um, we have to go back to 1944, uh, to the Bretton Woods Conference in the US when the IMF and the World Bank were actually established.

So there was this big monetary conference in 1944, just when World War II was coming to an end.

Uh, and the primary architects of the IMF and World Bank were the powers at the time, and mostly it was the US, which was a rising power, and Britain, which was a declining power.

You're getting Himmler and Nazi bankers, and you're getting, uh, the Five Eyes nations' banks, all of them, figuring out how to get as much money out of Nazi Germany as they possibly can before Hitler surrenders.

And when you see that, then you think, "Oh, wait." And then the next jump is the Bank of International Settlements spawns Bretton Woods, which is the IMF and World Bank.

Well, most people don't know Bretton Woods was created in New Hampshire only four days after D-Day.

So while we're, the, the worst battles are still going on on all sides of Switzerland, and of course all over Europe, uh, the bankers and the Wall Street lawyers are coming up with a supranational financial system to run the world after the war.

And, and once you start there, then you realize, okay, so how did this all get to where we are now? Which is that is who we are.

book?Well, I think the most important thing, and again, this goes back to the, the architects being Wall Street lawyers, because there's something really important that the American people do not know, and I believe is the biggest problem in how our sovereignty has really been stolen from us.

And the battles that you've been fighting a- with the World Health Organization, and I've been fighting with the international banks, I realized exactly what they did and exactly what we need to all realize must be done.

Uh, in 1945, while they're building all of these organizations, first, you know, they have the Bank of International Settlements, then Bretton Woods, the IMF and World Bank come out of that.

Yeah, I think that it is.

So before the end of World War II, most people have heard of the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944.

What did that do? At that conference, 44 nations created a supranational banking system with the guise of continuity no matter what happened between nation states.

They created the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

we have to be very careful here.

We have to go back to 1944, to the Bretton Woods Conference in the US, when the IMF and the World Bank were actually established.

So there was this big monetary conference in 1944, just when World War II was coming to an end.

And the primary architects of the IMF and World Bank were the powers at the time, and mostly it was the US, which was a rising power, And Britain, which was a declining power.

But not only that, it gave full power, gave full power to the US Treasury to set, quote-unquote, "Set the value of the US currency without Fed approval." It also, quote-unquote, "Allowed the president to establish the value of the dollar by proclamation." So this is pretty interesting stuff because, you know, that was put in place in '34.

After, after World War II, you had Bretton Woods Summit, which was 1944, when they were dec- deciding how to...

When they were gonna win the war and deciding how to kinda carve up Europe, you know, between Russia, uh, a- and the Allies.

This basically because we went into the war and saved everybody, and we had, you know, basically incurred a higher debt, that we w- that the dollar was gonna be named the world's reserve currency.

Yeah, a monetary reset we've seen in the past.

In 1944, at the end of the Second World War, we had the Bretton Woods Conference, which was the start, of course, of this dollar-centered world.

In 1971, we had a minor monetary reset when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard.

And I think we're in the last inning of the current dollar system.

Uh, it's not what any of the people who are worried, who, you know, take these threats of AI super intelligence killing us all or whatever, the people who take that seriously, these are not the regulations they're asking for.

Um, so, you know, I thought maybe the most telling part was, uh, David Sacks, who is Trump's former AI czar, said it was the Bretton Woods of super intelligence.

Um, and for those of us who know, Bretton Woods, or remember, was basically the conference in which the post-World War II US-dominated financial order was, like, agreed upon, right? Danny, you're the historian.

Is that the right way to, to phrase it?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Right.

But then, so then, like, having a bunch of the r- the tech CEOs together and be like, "We did a new Bretton Woods.