When does that begin? I mean, i was really interested in your book about just how old this tradition of being chief launderer and fixer to the cleptocracy actually begins. And well, it's obviously a post imperial thing, right? You know, this isn't something we used to do when we were an empire, because we were already the biggest bully. It happened in the mid ninhteed fifties during the sewes crisis, when the fi a markets in the city of london seized up. At the time, there were some quite heavy restrictions placed by the us Government on the use of dollars. But if you used dollars rather than pounds, suddenly all

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