Changing World Financial Systems

In this presentation, I plan to discuss a few things that are changing in world financial systems that affect the United States.  I also plan to provide some history around each topic to give some context around the current changes.  The topics that I'm thinking of include:

• What are Stablecoins?  What are their uses and why have they become popular around the world?  What problems do they solve?  Historical context:
  • How many currencies are there around the world
  • What does a person in a typical third world country experience with their currency?
• What is BRICS?  Why is it important?  Why is it expanding?  Historical context:  
  • When did the U.S. become the world reserve currency?
  • What happened with gold backing currencies around the world including the U.S. Dollar?
  • What does the term Petrodollar mean and why is it important?
  • What is a FIAT currency?