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An empire returning to the podcast is Sean Mugganathan Nagasundaram.

He was with us a while back.

He's author of the fantastic book we discussed last time.

Rip, rest in peace, US dollar, 1971 to 2020 something and the way forward.

Welcome back, Sean.

Thank you, Hawaii.

Nice to be with you again. So you're all the way out there

somewhere in the east. And in India. Yes, in India. And I just wanted to get an update from you on

where we are with the global economy, everything that's going on, gold constantly hitting

highs, dollar, and all that.

And you sent me a few slides, so I don't know if you want me to show them on the screen.

Right, maybe after the introduction, we can start with the slides.

One would have assumed that with gold prices almost doubling in the last two, three years,

there would be greater attention in the media as to what is happening.

But strangely, the mainstream media all over the world, including India, has largely been silent

and gold prices going up has been ignored as kind of an exogenous event that's got no relevance

to what is happening on a day-to-day basis.

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