The Great Financial Reset Has Begun | Marieke Flament & Nicolas Colin

In Episode 497 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Marieke Flament and Nicolas Colin, co-authors of the Currency of Power newsletter, about why the global financial system may be on the cusp of a structural transformation comparable to the Nixon Shock and the collapse of Bretton Woods, the central role of dollar-backed stablecoins and programmable money in that shift, what China's construction of parallel financial rails means for the future of dollar dominance, and how machine-to-machine commerce and the commodification of compute could reshape the monetary order in ways most policymakers and investors have yet to appreciate. The first hour covers why Flament and Colin believe we are living through the initial phase of a "Great Financial Reset" and the parallels they draw between the present era and the 1970s and early 1980s, when a convergence of geopolitical shocks, financial innovations, and technological revolutions transformed the global economy and capital markets in ways that would have been otherwise unimaginable. They discuss how the maturation of the digital economy is creating conditions for new waves of financial innovation and why dollar-backed stablecoins a…