Trades are all corrupt.
He even said that the 1987 Stock crash was manipulated. We were selling everything to Japan, the US Dollar to the Deutshmark was something like 4:1 - so it was in the advantage of the manipulators to force a crash. Don't know how true that is, but it was interesting.
I don’t know. I learned in econ that floating currency is worth what people think it is worth. While on the one hand it seems like that should make things easier, I don’t think the architects of this system figured on the Chinese.