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Jiang presents rising executive pay and bankrupt private universities as signs that administrators can extract while institutions fail.
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Bankruptcy
Jiang says elite patronage networks protect one another, allowing administrators to bankrupt one organization and move to another.
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In Jiang's Stratford University example, administrators extracted salaries, expenses, loans, and insider payments even as the institution went bankrupt.
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Jiang says elite patronage networks protect one another, allowing administrators to bankrupt one organization and move to another.
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He predicts that pensions will go bankrupt in five to ten years because there are too many retirees and not enough workers.
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Spanish imperial wealth financed broad dynastic wars and borrowing until even the era's wealthiest empire went bankrupt by the end of the 16th century.
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"the jobs of the managers okay this is america we go back to america and as you can see um this is a university..."
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"anything that's a great question okay the reason why is to all friends the school board the president the vice president they're all friends..."
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"they do is they lend money to the university okay okay all right so schultz is a president he lists himself and his wife..."
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"were marianne's the filings for 2020 alone showed over 18 000 in lease and insurance payments for the short cars okay so they had..."
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"And you know what? It works. Okay? Because people at the top protect each other. All right? Okay? Does that make sense? They don't..."
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"There's no money in the pension fund for you. Because all that money is gone. Why? Because there are too many retirees and not..."
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"For example, religious festivals, churches, masses. And all this money is being wasted on these religious festivals. And the third thing is monarchy. So..."
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"...say, hey, you guys are losing money. I, you should declare bankruptcy and I'll take whatever you have. Why? Because they would lose all..."
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"...that you can never, ever get rid of. You can't declare bankruptcy. This debt cannot be gotten rid of. Okay? When you die, it..."
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