Introduction

De-dollarisation. We've been warning about it since the start of the show.

But it won't happen overnight. To arrive at a place where the dollar is just one of many global currencies is the work of years, maybe decades.

In this Special Edition, our duo are taking the long view. We're going right back to Bretton Woods, to Nixon & The Gold Window, to the Emerging Markets Crisis of 97 and 98, and to the long sag of post-2008, to trace the internal logic of the dollar system.

Then, we're peering into the near future: what could possibly replace it? How long would that take? Are there brakes on this train?