Business
38 min
The Invisible Empire: How Oil Built the Dollar's Throne
A secret weekend meeting rewired the global economy forever
The story of how a broken promise, a covert deal in the Saudi desert, and the threat of military force turned the US dollar into an invisible empire — one that taxes every country on Earth and is now, for the first time, starting to crack.
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One story, one sitting.
Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.