Amanda Wick: American Dominance & the Coming New World Financial Order
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
4.2 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Amanda Wick discusses her book “The Catalysts: The Accelerating Forces Forging the New World Financial Order” on the evolving global financial and political landscape, including the perceived decline of American empire due to the erosion of dollar dominance and shrinking middle class. She touches on the rise of authoritarian capitalism and technocracy, exemplified by countries where citizens may prioritize economic stability over democratic participation and privacy. She explores bitcoin and CBDC policy under the Trump administration and actions other nations are taking.
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About Amanda Wick
Amanda Wick served as a federal prosecutor for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency. She worked in three US attorneys’ offices (Atlanta, Birmingham, and St. Louis). After that, she moved to Main Justice to serve in the Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Session. As part of a DOJ leadership program, she served as a detailee and senior policy advisor at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In 2020, she left the government to serve as the chief of legal affairs at Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company.
In 2021, Wick returned to government service as the lead financial investigator for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol. She went on to found and run a global non-profit organization, the Association for Women In Cryptocurrency. The organization aims to build a global network of women and male allies in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and web3 industries who will advocate for the equal inclusion of women in the future of digital finance.
Wick also serves as a principal with Incite Consulting. In that role, she provides expert and litigation advisory services to law firms and advises a wide range of cryptocurrency-related businesses. She remains a digital nomad living out of a carry-on suitcase and a National Geographic backpack. The Catalysts is her first book.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. |
| 0:03.0 | Joining us is Amanda Wick, who served as a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice for nearly a decade, specializing in money laundering and cryptocurrency, after which she moved to Maine Justice to serve in the criminal division's money laundering and asset recovery session as part of a DOJ leadership program. |
| 0:20.5 | She served as a Det E and senior policy advisor, |
| 0:22.9 | the financial crimes enforcement network in 2020. |
| 0:25.5 | She left the government to serve as the chief of legal affairs at chain aliasis, |
| 0:30.4 | a blockchain analytics company. |
| 0:32.3 | And in 2021, she returns to government services, |
| 0:35.7 | a lead financial investigator for the House Select Committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. |
| 0:41.6 | She then founded and ran a global nonprofit organization, the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency. |
| 0:47.5 | And she's author of The Catalysts, The Accelerating Forces, Forging the New World Financial Order. |
| 0:53.8 | I've got a digital copy right here. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome to the podcast, Amanda. |
| 0:58.7 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah, thanks for coming on. |
| 1:02.2 | And maybe to start, because your book covers a number of topics, many of which I treat |
| 1:08.6 | on the podcast with different guests. |
| 1:14.1 | And maybe to start to ask you about America's, |
| 1:16.8 | the American Empire's days coming to an end, |
| 1:20.2 | you talk a bit about the loss of dollar dominance, |
| 1:22.7 | the erosion of the middle class and that sort of stuff. |
| 1:24.4 | So what can you tell us about that? |
| 1:25.7 | Yeah, I mean, |
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