The 50-Year Racket. The Biggest Rig in History — How America Captured the World’s Oil Revenue — The Complete History of the Petrodollar...

In the summer of 1974, Henry Kissinger flew to Riyadh and made the most consequential financial deal in modern history. It was not a treaty. It was not a trade agreement. It was an arrangement — a word chosen deliberately, because what was agreed could never be written down in full. For fifty years, that arrangement shaped every oil transaction on earth, financed American power, and held the Gulf states in a gilded cage of their own choosing. Now, quietly and with gathering purpose, they are testing the lock. The World Before the Deal: Oil, Empires, and the Weapon That Changed Everything- Oil was already the most ...