Financial autopsies of the empires, systems, and decisions that shaped the modern world.
The history books recorded the outcomes. We investigate the ledger.
Most history books tell you what happened. We investigate why the ledger never balanced.
10 episodes. Every one an autopsy of empire, wealth, and ruin.
This is Fortune & Ruin. https://t.co/6SpkjKP70d
In 1720, Isaac Newton—fresh off publishing the law of universal gravitation—loses his entire £20,000 fortune on the South Sea Bubble, the market his new law seemed to predict would crash. 🧵
Every country on earth must hold US dollars just to buy oil. America built it that way on purpose, in a secret 1974 deal between Henry Kissinger and Saudi Arabia, right after the dollar lost all its backing in gold. This is how America turned paper into an empire
The whole dollar empire rests on one promise: that oil is always bought in dollars. If that breaks, America loses the privilege that let it live beyond its means for 50 years. Full story on Fortune & Ruin, link in the replies. Does the dollar hold, or is its oil era over?