The Trust Game

Divesting from absolute monarchy, people reinvest their trust in a new power.

As liberty changed hands in the new world, its price in freedom weighed heavily.

What is torn asunder during the Civil War is soon rebuilt under powerful titans, while repeated panics drive hysterical populations into the arms of a new central bank.

The secretive scheme for the newly born central bank was a means to an end, for nine months later would come the Great War - creating a global superpower operating under the reigns of those who conceived it.

In the tumultuous 1920s-30s, depression set in; FDR seized power and gold; bank functions were nationalized; dollars rebuilt Europe; and the stage set for the next world war.

Major central bank gold transfers precipitate WWII, fueling tragedy and destruction, while cataclysm re-emerges as a world ordered and denominated in dollars.

People suffer under high interest rates, as Fed Chair Paul Volcker fights inflation; meanwhile, hints of a "Phoenix" global currency emerge as exuberant markets crack, and a "plunge protection team" works secretly to prop them up.

A deregulated derivatives market looms over the globalization era, making the next crisis inevitable. The tech bubble, terrorism, war and fraud foretell the demise of the dollar.

A deregulated derivatives market looms over the globalization era, making the next crisis inevitable. The tech bubble, terrorism, war and fraud foretell the demise of the dollar.

Digital currency emerges, and a choice becomes evident: a coin that represents absolute control via a central authority, or a decentralized coin whose value is volatile and increasingly pressured to be domesticated.