The Weight of Gold
Experience the interwar crisis as one of four central bankers. Your decisions about interest rates, gold reserves, and international cooperation will shape whether the world falls into depression — or finds a way through.
"Four bankers. One gold standard. The fate of the world."
Opening Chapter
# The Men Who Made the World
## Brussels, September 1920
The delegates arrived by train, by motorcar, and in one case by military aeroplane. Thirty-nine nations had sent representatives to the Palais des Academies in Brussels, where chandeliers still bore the scratches of German officers who had commandeered the building during the occupation. The carpets had been replaced. The bullet holes in the facade had not.
The International Financial Conference had been called to answer a question that no one quite knew how to ask: now that the old world was dead, what would replace it?
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