The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency article

The Road to a Single Fiat World Currency

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Understanding and practicing economics is the key to destroying the foundations of democratic socialism. This can only be achieved by insight into better ideas, and by reason. The Global Currency Plot is meant as a contribution to help the better ideas prevail.
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