One of the most powerful men in the world (and he's not who you think he is).

While everyone watches Trump, Putin, or Xi, or even Elon Musk, the real puppeteer of money lives quietly in Basel.

He is Mexican. His name is Agustín Carstens, and he runs the Bank for International Settlements—the “central bank of central banks.”

The BIS doesn’t print money; it designs the rules of the game.

It decides how money moves—and now, how it will be digitized.

Carstens is pushing for CBDCs, central bank digital currencies. His promise: to modernize finance.

His consequence: every purchase, every transfer, every payment—visible and traceable.

Programmable money: useful if you comply, frozen if you don’t. Cash would vanish, physical banks would turn into apps, and your digital ID would become the passport to exist economically.

The power of the state and banks merging into one screen. This is how the new monetary order is built—not with armies, but with code.

Carstens doesn’t need your vote; he just needs you to accept his currency. And you will… once it’s the only one left.

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Looks like JB Pritzker’s little (big?) brother, lol

Jabba the hutt

Small correction: he was replaced in the Summer by Pablo Hernandez de Cos.

Related:

"Carstens currently serves as the International Advisory Board Member of the Global Finance & Technology Network." (wikipedia)

Anyway, the people matter less than the shared agenda.

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