In July 1944, in New Hampshire, forty-four nations signed the agreements that would govern global finance for the next three decades. The U.S. dollar was pegged to gold at thirty-five dollars per troy ounce; other currencies were pegged to the dollar. It was a simple order, almost brutal in its geometry: all the world’s economies orbited around the American sun.

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