Looking back over the past ten years, I can’t even begin to describe all the experiences I’ve had in Ukraine.

For a while, I actually owned a business based here. I’ve been travelling here frequently for years. I still have many friends here. Some of our employees are based here. And Kiev is one of the cities in the world that I know best.

Yet even after all of that, I still can’t make heads or tails of this place.

Henry Ford once said, “It is well that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.”

He was right about at least one thing– it’s true that hardly anyone on the planet really understands the monetary system… or the way that central bankers manipulate the entire global economy.

I’m here in the Land of the Free, in New York City.

And just as I was wondering what I would say to a high-ranking US politician if they asked me for advice on how to destroy their financial system, Joe Biden’s limousine arrived at my hotel accompanied by small army of secret service agents.

Alas, he hasn’t yet sought me out for my input but if he did want to know how to destroy the US financial system here’s what I would tell him:

Jim Rickards, author of one of my favorite books Currency Wars and his upcoming book “The Death of Money: The Coming Collapse of the International Monetary System”, joins me today to discuss the death of money.

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