And two professors one from Berkeley and one from Paris/Geneva are credible because ..... ?
If you found something to rebut, I hope you can share your argument with us.
His argument is pompous, unsupported and fails to even mention the ongoing switch from dollars to euros as a base currency for oil.
They conveniently don't mention the role of the gold standard in the scheme of things. Such as what happens to currency when nations go off the gold standard. Like when Britain and Germany did in 1914. These guys are story tellers.