Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — This episode presents Will Wertz’s case for a “new Bretton Woods” monetary system grounded in the American System of political economy and an alliance among the U.S., Russia, China, and India, which he links to President Trump’s leadership. It contrasts Roosevelt’s original 1944 Bretton Woods vision—national banking, fixed exchange rates, development lending, infrastructure, and sovereignty—with what he calls the Anglo-Dutch imperial model of independent central banking, free trade, globalization, and deindustrialization. Wertz argues Bretton Woods was sabotaged after FDR’s death, culminating in Nixon ending dollar-gold convertibility in 1971, after which global growth and manufacturing in many developing nations collapsed. He highlights the Bank for International Settlements’ Nazi-era role, claims it survived liquidation efforts, and connects it to modern central banking and the EU. He concludes with principles for a new system including fixed rates, a gold-reserve dollar, protective tariffs, Glass-Steagall, ending WTO policies, and renewed high-technology development credit.
00:00 Why Bretton Woods Matters
02:03 What Bretton Woods Was
05:38 American vs Anglo Dutch Systems
10:38 1971 Break and Globalization
18:11 World Bank Shift and Anti Development
19:30 Interwar Cartels and BIS Origins
25:55 BIS Survives and EU Built
43:58 Keynes vs White Bretton Woods Plan
48:51 Blueprint for New Bretton Woods
59:55 Final Call to Action
