Jim Rogers incorrectly conflates the current period of US hegemony where we live under a dollar standard with the previous instances of European imperial dominance where global trade and commerce was constrained under a gold standard. Notwithstanding that, it is an entertaining interview, and Rogers' critique of the view that many uncomfortable with immigrants and refugees see them as the other ("their food smells bad, they smell bad") is prescient in the current era.
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