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The Big Banks REALLY Don’t Want BRICS-Plus to Stop Using the US Dollar

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No US Dollars, Please

The United States being for the last several decades a now 70+% consumption economy has done a tremendous amount of damage to the nation.

One of the very few beneficiaries of this idiocy has been the Big Banks.  One-third of a billion Americans spending most of their days spending?  Is great for the people issuing the credit cards and loaning the dollars.

But what if something major happens to those dollars?  Like, say, about half of the planet’s population halting its use as the default planetary currency?

This is increasingly becoming a possibility.  Behold the BRICS-Plus countries:

“(A)n association of the countries Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa….On January 1, 2024, the 5 countries Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Ethiopia joined the alliance. Indonesia joined in January 2025. In total, BRICS Plus now comprises eleven countries that are emerging economies.

“A total of 3.93 billion people live in these eleven countries, making up 48.70 percent of the world’s population….The BRICS Plus countries also generate 28.12% of all global gross domestic products.”

The BRICS-Plus countries are paying attention to what the US is doing to itself.  And they can do math.  So this is happening…: (more…)

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