
Photo portrait of General Charles de Gaulle of the Free French Forces and first president of the Fifth Republic serving from 1959 to 1969 / Wikimedia *
“The US dollar is the world’s reserve currency. Everybody uses US dollars. Nobody knows exactly, but there is about 7 trillion dollars outside of the United States. So this has been a gigantic advantage for the Americans. They can get Sony’s, Mercedes, and everything imported – cocaine – everything imported in at essentially zero cost. They’re paying with dollars, they are printed up. So that’s coming to an end.” – Doug Casey (1)