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Banks are presented as creators of money out of thin air: they lend beyond deposits and thereby perform an alchemical transformation of valueless lead into socially treated gold.
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Banks
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definition
Jiang defines the 'Yankari Trade' as a mechanism where Japanese banks lend to domestic corporations at effectively zero percent so those firms can buy higher-yielding U.S. Treasuries, helping drive Japanese Treasury accumulation.
diagnosis
Jiang says a domestic U.S. debt default is politically impossible because it would wipe out Americans' bank money, trigger revolution, and collapse the government.
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Jiang presents the rise of major Chinese banks over the previous 20 years as evidence that banks create money to finance infrastructure rather than merely store preexisting wealth.
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Protestant asceticism restricts consumption while freeing acquisition, so unspent surplus wealth moves into banks and imperial state power.
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Jiang says financial deregulation, especially repeal of Glass-Steagall, consolidated banks into institutions that became too big to fail.
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Jiang says the bubble will pop through a controlled implosion in which companies and banks decide to cash out rather than through an accidental market event.
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diagnosis
Jiang describes the 2008 financial crisis as an engineered collapse in which major actors knew the system was unsustainable and hedge funds plus banks profited by betting against CDOs.
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"All right. The banks. So in theory how this works is depositors you guys you save enough money and then you put your money..."
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"...becomes gold. So this is the secret of alchemy. How are banks able to trick you into believing that lead is gold? By using..."
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"...this is. Okay? So what the Yankari Trade is this. Japanese banks will lend money to Japanese corporations at 0%."
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"...corporation and you need money, you just go to the Japanese bank and they'll give you money at 0 % interest. What this means..."
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"...Okay. Where does this money come from? It comes from private banks. Okay. And who puts their money in the banks? The people put..."
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"...to a massive consolidation of the financial industry. And so these banks became too big to fail. So that's the second big trend. The..."
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"...implosion. So basically, it's basically these companies getting together with the banks and saying, you know what, let's cash out now. Okay. And that's..."
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"...how do we know? Because over the past 20 years, Chinese banks, like the Bank of China, the Bank of Industry and Commerce, the..."
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"...of this money. Where's this money going? It's going to the bank. And who's using this money in the bank? The government is. And..."
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"They had access to all this surplus wealth that Protestants weren't spending. On the other hand, it had the psychological effect of freeing the..."
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"...you're so tempted to look on the other side of the bank but really you just have to stay on your side and try..."
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"...just as of old ismanus and asapus at night along their banks saw crowds and clamor whenever thebans had to summon buckets such was..."
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