In this episode of Forecast Dialogues, Economist, Investor and Operator, Jilani Gulam sits down with financial analyst and author Shad Ahmad to expose the hidden mechanics of the global economy.
From the ashes of the gold-backed Bretton Woods system to the rise of the Petrodollar and modern financialization, discover how the U.S. leveraged debt to maintain global hegemony—and why that system is now fracturing.
We break down Iran’s strategic economic warfare in the Strait of Hormuz, the vulnerability of the trillion-dollar AI bubble, and how the BRICS nations are actively building a gold-backed alternative to dethrone the U.S. Dollar.
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