okay, finished that after dinner this evening- it was neat to learn about the American economic warfare during Vietnam (the gold standard era). I'm a bit skeptical of their ultimate pitch, though. The funny thing is that even though they're talking about the post-empire era in general, everything they're describing is- surprise surprise- from the post-1971 fiat era. The pitch is that all this bad stuff is due to financial privacy, and if we only had better surveillance and more taxation, everything would be fine.
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as an aside, I think this recent video from CaspianReport is a real good compliment to the stuff they talked about in the middle about the impact on the developing world. In this case they're talking about France, not the UK, but it shows how that extraction/financial imperialism relies quite a bit on central bank shenanigans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-u1Pjce4Lg
