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Banks do not merely store money; in Jiang’s model they create money/liquidity, making money a collective hallucination rather than a fixed object.
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Banks do not merely store money; in Jiang’s model they create money/liquidity, making money a collective hallucination rather than a fixed object.
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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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Jiang argues that even under fractional reserves, banks expand money beyond deposited cash; the important point is that bank accounting creates money in practice.
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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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"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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"...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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"So they're a bank, basically. And then they can use this money to start investing throughout Europe, and so they become a very wealthy..."
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"You cannot loan all the money that you have. They will have a limit like 25%. I don't know. Okay. Maybe 10%. So you..."
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"Okay. Really good point. Okay. Yes. Okay. So that's really good. So in economics, you learn about the idea of the fractional reserve system...."
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"You'll be empowered to live the way you want to live, to see the world that is true to you. So let me give..."
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"And after a year, I will pay you back 10 % interest. Okay. 10 % interest. And so I make a 9 % profit..."
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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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The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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