How a secret 1910 meeting at Jekyll Island set the stage for the Federal Reserve, how Bretton Woods made the dollar the world’s anchor, why the end of gold convertibility accelerated long-run debasement, and why Rome’s monetary collapse offers cautionary parallels as crypto matures. New policies like the Strategic Reserve, GENIUS Act, and Japan’s XRP adoption hint at the next monetary order — but the U.S. fiat system’s reliance on deficits makes collapse increasingly inevitable.