
Rich Dad Radio Show: In-Your-Face Advice on Investing, Personal Finance, & Starting a Business Why the US Dollar Is Losing Value and What Happens Next - Richard Duncan
Mar 25, 2026
Richard Duncan, a classically trained economist and author, discusses why the US dollar has weakened since leaving the gold standard. He traces the shift to debt-driven 'creditism' and how global central banks are moving into gold. The conversation covers asset bubbles, rising oil pressures, and geopolitical shifts that could reshape global finance.
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1971 Dollar Abandonment Shifted The Global System
- Removing the dollar's gold backing in 1971 enabled limitless US credit creation and turned the economy from savings-driven to debt-driven.
- Richard Duncan links that shift to massive trade deficits, foreign dollar accumulation, reinvestment in US assets, and the 2008 bubble collapse.
Creditism Requires Ever More Debt
- Duncan calls the modern system "creditism": an economy sustained by ever-increasing credit creation rather than saving and production.
- Since 2008 US government debt rose from $9T to about $38–39T, forcing continual reflation to support asset prices.
Move Reserves Toward Gold As Dollar Confidence Falls
- Expect central banks and trade surplus nations to shift reserves from dollars into gold and other hard assets as confidence in the dollar erodes.
- Duncan advises investors consider gold exposure given long-term 93% dollar decline versus gold since 2002.




