Russia being able to survive and at some level, even thrive under the western financial sanction will be a critical lesson for the global south on how to circumvent western financial terrorism. We are witnessing an acceleration of the tectonic shifts in global order and economy, a point of no return.

Every Empire has ended with an over extended military & a mountain of debt.

153 countries were at the BRI meeting back in late 2023. So who's getting isolated? Asking for a friend 😅

May each BRICS grow stronger economically, militarily, morally, and culturally than the G7 combined.

two main reasons why nations getting rid of $. 1. They do not want to be sanctioned or their asset confiscated by the US. 2. US keep printing the $ without any limit.

De-dollarization will benefit the entire world. It is madness to have a centralized financial architecture controlled by just one country. Only the US is not really interested because of all the privilegies they’ll lost.

For centuries these masters of deceipt, depravity & avarice have exploited a vast swathe of humanity under some vile “model” or “rule-based (dis)order from acquiring a fair share of progress & prosperity… Kudos as always to Ben for his unrelenting efforts to wake us up & smell the coffee while there’s still time 👍👌👏👏👏

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excellent journalism

Happy new year Ben.Thank you for your clear analysis.

Great interview with Jerry! The west does not see the bigger picture of the world…

Not just the Dollar but also government of the country that prints those Dollars.

Argentina was a big mistake. Poor Argentinians.

The US needs to lose power for its own sake.

Hello from Australia, i am so glad i found this amazing young man, intelligent, EMPATHETIC and the polar opposite of that American supremacist fool Peter Zeihan, thanks for the interesting and accurate content and best wishes for the future of the channel, your green eyes are amazing LOL

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Can't wait to see the demolition of the $

Ben, thank you for such a comforting video.

When the Fed introduced artificially low rates (for the too Big to Flail institutions) it was committing what would be called "Gift Loans" if done by any other. Tax should be assessed and collected on the Imputed (uncollected) interest. That is, the difference between the market rate (for us little people) and what the Fed charged. Since the Loans were in the Trillion$ - this would actually result in a nearly break-even budget for a change (like the last couple years of the Clinton Administration).

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Thanks so much Ben, you put together such a diverse range of information & made it easily comprehensible, it’s so vital to help understand what's occurring right now.

I disagree about dominance of the dollar disappearing overnight, it's most definitely going to go overnight, as always with empires and trees, they fall in the same way, slow at first, and then all of the sudden, we have been in a slow stage on the onset of war in ukraine, now, we're in the mexican standoff stage, everyone knows what's going on, and no one wants to be the first to drop it, and no one wants to be the last to drop it, but everyone is itching to drop the dollar. I'm assuming that big players, such as brics, could do it right now, and everyone would follow overnight, but someone would be left holding the bags, and many smaller countries are abs not ready to switch of the dollar, so they keep holding in order to deminish the damage on such small countries that are lagging behind, or didn't realize in time that this thing is happening, and haven't even started to divest. they can't let these countries collapse completely with lamerica, cause they need everyone to do well for their business priority, everything is business with brics nations

Marx was born into the post French Revolution firmament, that promised an end to feudalism. A very exciting time. Capitalism was seen as a revolutionary force that would put an end to feudalism, get rid of the inefficiency of economic rent & therefore end quite naturally in socialism, where everyone gets a fair shake. It was a dismal life for many, as Dickens can attest, battles would have to be fought, but progress was being made & the direction was clear & set. Real gains were made in employment, education, housing, sanitation, etc. Then it all went wrong. “If we don't get socialism, we will get the barbarians” - Rosa Luxemburg assassinated 1919. The barbarians she was talking about, were the elites of Financial Capitalism that rule over our lives to this day. Marx meticulously dissected & brought together all the post-revolutionary economists work, the Classical economists, from Smith to Ricardo, etc, in a single critique called Capital. Capital vol 1 is all people read - production & the surplus. Vol 2 & 3 talk about financial capitalism, interest, economic rent, monopoly rent, unearned income, explaining exactly our situation in the west today. Neoliberalism is Financial Capitalism, a return to neo-feudalism, where bankers' & billionaires rule every aspect of our lives. They were trying to rid themselves of the landed aristocracy, that did nothing & took the surplus, that existed in their time. We must try to rid ourselves of the oligarchs of corporate power, the financial neo-aristocrats, that exist in our times. Or be enslaved once again. The post Great Depression, post WW2 blip in socialism was caused by the elite's fear of communism. The west is the best had to have some basis in reality. The Empire & rape of the colonies quietly added to the prosperity. FDR told the rich, either give up some of your wealth now, or risk a revolution & losing the lot later. That fear has now gone, organised resistance has been smashed & any pretence of a good life for the lower classes is no more. How did the industrial capitalism of Marx’s day, transform into the financial capitalism we have today? To make a complex understanding simple; the Robber Barons, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harriman, Morgan, etc, were born in the 1830’s and grew their wealth through the efficiencies brought by industrial capitalism. Over time they became monopolies, dictating price & concentrating their wealth to immense proportion. Carnegie was considered the richest man in America, with mountains of money that earned him much more than making steel. Monopoly pricing, investments & interest, in short unearned income, became their main source of wealth, so they used their money to promote their interests. Starting in the 1890’s a new Neoclassical economics was promoted hard, because it sanitised their obscene wealth. It was really an anti-classical economics, with cancerous growth requirements, that was & is unsustainable - but that's another story. The new economics protected their wealth because it declared no difference between earned & unearned income. This was the essential difference. The Robber Barons became the Neo-aristocracy of their time, building institutions, foundations, corrupting government, anything that served their interests. Rockefeller founded Chicago University, where the Chicago School later gave rise to Milton Freedman’s iteration of Neoliberal economics & Monetary Theory. All complete garbage. This is how the transformation occurred, from an Industrial Capitalism that was on the road to socialism, to a Financial Capitalism that is on the road to Neo-Feudalism - a full circle, with their power now much enhanced by their ownership of digital technology, for the ultimate in mass control.

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Absolutely Right conversation Thanks for sharing

nations are sick of imported inflation again and again, disrupting their economic growth... they demand to de-dollarize fast.

When Lula visited, practically the United States said, - It's good to be rich, I don't need to do business with poor people, I already have my partners. While China says, - It's good to be rich, let's negotiate, come and be my partner, you'll like it!

Hello Ben, welcome to China. I have been following your work for a while now and I have to say that you are a credit to the profession of journalist. I am very glad to have found out that you came to Beijing to get a PhD. I am also based in Beijing so would very much like to meet you face to face. Let me know if you are interested in meeting up for a friendly chat over a beer or something. Thank you.

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Ben, soon EU countries will have to worry that even Euros are targeted??? Why not? Have they showed any Moral discipline lately???

What if? What if BRICS informally approved a plan to encourage all emerging market counties to inform the IMF and the World Bank that they were going to completely stop both interest and principle payments until they received much more favorable terms. An individual country doing that is going to get crushed. 20 to 30 countries doing that together would likely work out well for those countries. Consider that action to be a reverse form of sanctions that have worked so well for Western governments.

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Plus the no1 supplier of platinum/coal which South Africa currently holds..untapped gold mines.diamonds beds. We welcome our Brics + partners to invest and explore South Africa.

bruh China singlehandedly carried developing countries growth

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Great report from Ben! Thanks!

I love to see real journalism from your channel 🙏😊

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Please do a video on how to invest in BRICS and divest from Israel.

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no one wants to dance with a pick pocket

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That dollar was an evil clever from the start, thinking he has no end?

I love all your video. I learn a lot of real information from you and stay truth to power and knowledge. Thank you!😊

Thx for sharing

it is interesting to see when it will happening

Brasil e China já estão realizando transações somente com moedas locais dos países - yuan e real. A empresa Eldorado Brasil realizou no dia 25 de agosto o embarque de celulose à China. Foram 43 contêineres direcionados ao país asiático. A transação foi finalizada, com a conversão direta de reminbi para real. O dinheiro ficou disponível no dia 29 de setembro

Time to talk about the global majority.

Dollar make and keep Many countries very poor and in a dept trap

“GIVE me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” ~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild (Founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty) Same Strategy as US.

Respect!

That RMB pronunciation getting better and better.

The last hurricane here in Mexico (Puerto Vallarta) the dollar died on the tree. Nobody wanted the DOLLAR !

Here is why I do not worry. Finally producing more than enough oil Always had way to much food. Water will never run out. America

The American public will eventually see a bunch of chickens at the doorstep saying, "We're back to roost!"

*Odious debt* is a concept that allows the right off of debt incurred in countries thst are drowning in IMF/World Bank debt because they have suffered from US sponsored coups resulting in tyrants who then take out loans that only benefit the tyrant and the foreign investor class. This sort of thing has happened repeatedly. “Restructuring” which amounts to enforced poverty through austerity measures and repayment plans involve selling off national assets such as public infrastructure, natural resources as in timber and mineral wealth. And farm land. Further extortion is made in demanding US bases to be built on their land or permitting toxic waste to be dumped, or hijacking their agricultural land for export crops. Even withholding pay to school teachers or denying funds for health clinics and education to demand repayment. Then there are characters such as Paul Singer who buy up the debt for some small fraction of face value and then extort the full amount from austerity measures being imposed on his victims.

The real question is whether BRICS+ can be as stable as G7. G7 are rich countries and as politically stable as ducks in a row following the US. As for BRICS China and India are contesting for dominance, Brazil can oscillate back to the right after next election, as Argentina has vividly demonstrated so, a sharp turn around to the right. Of the BRICS+, 3 are democratic 7 are authoritarian. Ben, can do an analysis on how stable BRICS+ politically and economically it could be? I suspect brick+ is a dynamic entity that memberships come and go post election seasons. If so, how effective can BRICS+ be countering the push back from G7?

It is a little hard to imagine why this is a question. The United States is all about exploitation and profits by any means. BRICS is about mutual trade for mutual satisfaction. Not much to compare here, except that the U. S. continues to display its suicidal tendencies.

Please cover ICJ hearing

Don't ever forget dear brother our strength relies on our people more than our resources, power, influence, etc. Together we stand all across the land.

There are always winners and losers in geopolitical contests - but it is almost never a contest of competing VALUES. It is pretty much always a contest of technological, logistical, and cultural prowess. Nothing more. Power corrupts - but it also stabilizes. Cultural cohesion is any person's best bet for safety and security in their lives.

Because they arogantly weaponize it 😢

3rd world getting wise.

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I have doubts about that. They will absolutely try. But its not that simple

Why don’t you put out a video explaining how domestic banking works in our FIAT system? That is money is endogenously created. Then as the debt is paid off the money that is loaded it disappears. Then you can do one on MMT. Then one on international banking.

Apropos of nothing... why the abrupt end? Is YT now editing videos? I've noticed this on a couple of channels I follow. Anyone else miss the "I'm Ben Nor-ton" signoff?

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Why should global south exhaust it's environment and natural Resource just to get a printed paper that worth nothing?

The dollar is the us greatest weapon

I recently tried to invest in BRICS, and divest from Israel. I use Vanguard (I know they're evil but don't know who else to use without paying out the wazoo)...and anyway, they didn't have a way to divest from Israel--sucks. Investing in BRICS was sort of accomplished. Just letting y'all know that it is possible. If anyone has some insight into this, let me know.

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That wouldn't be hard, since software simulation with multiple worst-case scenarios could tell them what would make it feasible.

It is high time that world currencies operate from a level playing field - one for one - this should apply to all currencies across the globe -why should the currencies of countries other than the "West" be of less value ? The way in which the currency value is set/decided upon ,is to keep them in debt. This currency dominance have to come to an end.

I'm looking to move to an ethical bank that goes nowhere near the dollar.

Kindly dear if you provide us all the data in a soft formate it will really help us in our exams too.

Most of these countries will move away from the US dollar because the US won’t be trading with them either

Argentina need a new leader. Maybe Mr. Messi. At least he can kick. Current one waving dangerously a chainsaw. 😅😅😂😂🤥🤥

Will the introduction of central bank digital currencies in any way mitigate any great depression that may be coming or allow the USA to somehow wiggle its way out of disaster, as by creating a dollar area in the EU/Latin America similar to the sterling area that Britain created in the interwar years and persuading other countries to keep on using the dollar?

Please how can we find out this data in a soft form

Why? Very simple. Cut the middleman cut cost.

I heard “US current sea” and thought, what do you mean, we’re everywhere now!

Brasil quadruplica reservas em yuan chinês. 🇧🇷

NO COUNTRY WANTS TO DROP THE DOLLAR AND EURO.

Americans must be puzzled why people would want to avoid the dollar if they can. 😂😂

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Can you do samethink on the milkshake theory please you all way get people talking about this but if BRICS has a new currency how does this work just wandering please thank you

Will the US not respond appropriately to save the dollar as they have done in the past using their economic and military might ?

Brics is so powerful they could all buy a single banana split it and call themselves super rich.

Wouldn't exchange currency be a problem?

Ben what about Dinars Iraqi dollars

....wonder if this will be apart of a geo political finance course?😅

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How does the first chart show inequality is getting better over time? It shows the gap is widening with China. Does that not represent less equality?

Let they do it see what is go andhappend with bricks