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He states that banks create new money through lending against deposits, which is the basis for explaining debt and inflation dynamics in this episode.
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Banking
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Key Notes
model
Banks do not merely store money; in Jiang’s model they create money/liquidity, making money a collective hallucination rather than a fixed object.
diagnosis
Jiang says the world economy is based on stealing from the third world and transferring that money into first-world banking and real estate systems.
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Merchant oligarchies use banking, navy/trade control, and diplomacy/intelligence to extract energy across time and space.
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The Knights Templar become a multinational bank by solving pilgrim money-transfer problems, then grow wealthy and heterodox enough that the Church bans them in 1307.
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The opening money example asks students to compare the intuitive zero-money answer with what the banking system actually does.
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The economics-class answer to banking is fractional reserve logic, but Jiang says the real system creates a larger balance sheet by treating the loan and deposit as coexisting claims.
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The Knights Templar became influential because they functioned as a multinational banking and trade organization, not only as pilgrim protectors.
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"And this is honestly why they say that all wars are banking wars, because you need to expand to new markets. And so if..."
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"an illusion so the example is let's just say your depositor and you put a million dollars into a bank okay and the way..."
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"do you guys know what you don't want to know why the bank has two million dollars this is the case okay i'll tell..."
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"this paper can be redeemed for gold at my bank it doesn't make sense all right and then you have to keep track of..."
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"Okay, so again, this is a science book. It's a set explanation for why there's a bubble burst, because it's delusional, and then it's..."
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"So maybe I want to start a restaurant. And so I borrow a million dollars from the bank, okay? Question, how much money is..."
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"...you guys know what the biggest industry in Australia is? It's banking, okay? Okay, banking. Which means that Australia also engages in money laundering...."
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"...the uh ottomans would subordinate their economy to french and british banking interests and that's what happened right basically the french and the british..."
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"were crypto jews that they were sabbatians that they were uh that and and so if you think about it makes sense because you..."
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"...and the world is through three mechanisms, okay? The first is banking. Banking just means that these oligarchs are pooling their resources together in..."
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"Now, the idea of diplomacy is you don't want to fight. You don't want to fight wars because your population is very limited. What..."
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"And eventually they succeed, okay? Even though a lot are criminals, they're still very good fighters because they have religious devotion, okay? They're very..."
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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Jiang treats the Xi–Trump visit as a strategic theater.
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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Jiang opens by saying 2026 is not yet the final explosion but the year the whole machine visibly speeds up: a Ponzi-like global economy, imperial consolidation around trade routes and resources, and nation-states losing...
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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Greg Carlwood keeps pushing Jiang from historical method into prophecy, money, education, and mystical disclosure until one through-line becomes visible: bureaucratic empires hollow out the human soul, then try to escape their own decay...
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