At the end of World War II, the United States pushed to have the Bank for International Settlements shut down permanently. It failed. Not only did the BIS survive — it came back stronger. In this episode, we trace how the BIS quietly rebuilt its influence during the Cold War by positioning itself as the one place where central bankers from rival nations could meet privately, away from their governments and away from the public. No press. No minutes. No accountability. The decisions made in those rooms in Basel shaped monetary policy across the entire Western world, and the people making them were never elected by anyone. This episode is about how unelected financial power operates in the shadows — and why it has been allowed to for nearly a century.