How can BRICS de-dollarize the financial system?

BRICS plans to transform the international monetary and financial system, and discussed policies at the 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia. Can it successfully challenge the dominance of the US dollar? Political economist Radhika Desai is joined by Ben Norton and former central banker Kathleen Tyson, author of the book "Multicurrency Mercantilism".

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Topics
0:00 Highlight
1:24 Intro: 2024 BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia
7:33 Evaluating BRICS proposal to improve financial system
16:47 De-dollarizing trade vs capital markets
24:50 Can a global currency solve the Triffin dilemma?
29:10 Investment flows from poor to rich
30:44 Capital controls
37:16 Could Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) be a new global reserve currency?
42:17 Can a currency backed by a basket of commodities help settle trade imbalances?
48:38 Financial deregulation, Glass-Steagall, and China
53:21 HSBC splits between West and East
55:18 How can central banks de-dollarize reserves?
1:02:35 Controlling finance
1:09:01 What can China do with its huge surplus?
1:16:11 Outro

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