Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way. I'm John Batscher. This is CBSi in the world visiting with Simon Constable who writes for the Wall Street Journal and Barons and other publications.

He's in Scotland, a little chilly.

He lives in the south of France.

And he's taking us to Breton Woods, New Hampshire,

in July of 44, which is a vacation time for the

the hills of New Hampshire. It's quite beautiful.

At the same time what they were inventing in

1944 80 years ago is still with us. What did they accomplish Simon and what is the thinking today

about the US dollar as the world's reserve currency?

What is fascinating what happened here.

Europe and much of the rest of the world had gone to war and this was a period where we

the war was nearing an end and it was clear that the allies including the US, the UK, and the

Commonwealth and other other countries was going to win against the axis, you know, the

the triple axis, which was Japan, Italy, and Germany.

And indeed that did happen.

Now the question then was, who was going to run the world's currency?

Britain, which had had, which had that role with the British pound,

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